Trust in Numbers [electronic resource] : The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Trust in Numbers: [electronic resource]: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life / Theodore M. Porter.
개인저자	Porter, Theodore M., author.
발행사항	Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2020].
형태사항	1 online resource (344 p.).
ISBN	0691210543 9780691210544
기타표준부호	10.1515/9780691210544doi
내용주기	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Cultures of Objectivity -- 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 -- 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 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines -- CHAPTER NINE. Is Science Made by Communities? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
요약	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 study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
일반주제명	Objectivity. Science --Social aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	306.4
언어	In English.
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