Measure and Value (Sociological Review Monograph Series, Band 8) - Softcover

 
9781444339581: Measure and Value (Sociological Review Monograph Series, Band 8)

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Explores how issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life

  • Debates the restructuring of time, scale, number, pattern and sequence
  • Investigates the changing character and properties of data, evidence and the empirical
  • Questions if we do need new forms of measure and what different forms of measure actually do?
  • Addresses these and related questions to place issues of measure and value at the core of contemporary social science debate

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lisa Adkins is Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle, Australia.
 
Celia Lury is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

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Issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life. Debates on the restructuring of time, scale, number, pattern and sequence, for example, as well as those on the changing character and properties of data, evidence and the empirical, point to a need for a re-evaluation of the conventions, devices and practices of measure and value in the social sciences and humanities. Do we need new forms of measure? And what do different forms of measure do? This Sociological Review monograph addresses these and related questions to place issues of measure and value at the core of contemporary social science debate.

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