Trust in Numbers : : The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life / / Theodore M. Porter.
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the New Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Cultures of Objectivity
- Part I .POWER IN NUMBERS
- CHAPTER ONE. A World of Artifice
- CHAPTER TWO. How Social Numbers Are Made Valid
- CHAPTER THREE. Economic Measurement and the Values of Science
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Political Philosophy of Quantification
- PART II. TECHNOLOGIES OF TRUST
- CHAPTER FIVE. Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries
- CHAPTER SIX. French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy
- CHAPTER SEVEN. U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis
- PART III. POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines
- CHAPTER NINE. Is Science Made by Communities?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index