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This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.
Methodology of economics --- Science --- Objectivity. --- Sciences --- Objectivité --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Objectivity --- -sciences sociales --- mathematiques --- statistique --- theories economiques --- secteur public --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reality --- Personal equation --- Social aspects --- sociale wetenschappen --- wiskunde --- statistiek --- economische theorieen --- openbare sector --- Objectivité --- Science -- Social aspects. --- sciences sociales --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Science. --- objektivitet --- presisjon --- nøyaktighet --- tallbegrepet --- filosofi --- samfunn --- samfunnsvitenskap --- kvantifisering --- vitenskap --- sosiale --- aspekter --- kvantiative --- metoder --- kvantitative --- Monograph --- Science - Social aspects. --- SCIENCE --- SOCIAL ASPECTS --- OBJECTIVITY --- Objectivite
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Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Authors, Spanish --- Communists --- Biography --- Semprún, Jorge --- Political activity --- Spain --- Politics and government --- 340.12 <41> --- Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 340.12 <41> Natuurrecht. Rechtsfilosofie --(algemeen)--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Semprun, Ḥorheh --- Semprún y Maura, Jorge --- Maura, Jorge Semprún y --- Semproun, Chorche --- סמפרון, חורחה --- Semprún Maura, Jorge --- Sánchez, Federico, --- Political activity. --- Authors, Spanish - 20th century - Biography --- Communists - Spain - Biography --- Semprún, Jorge - Political activity --- Spain - Politics and government - 1939-1975
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Catholic universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Academic freedom --- Church and college --- Aims and objectives --- 378.4 <73> --- Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 378.4 <73> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Catholic universities and colleges - United States. --- Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States. --- Academic freedom - United States. --- Church and college - United States.
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51 <09> --- Mathematics--Geschiedenis van ... --- Mathematics --- History. --- 51 <09> Mathematics--Geschiedenis van ... --- Mathematical statistics --- 519.2 <09> --- 519.2 <09> Probability. Mathematical statistics--Geschiedenis van ... --- Probability. Mathematical statistics--Geschiedenis van ... --- History --- Probability. Mathematical statistics--Geschiedenis van .. --- anno 1800-1899 --- 51 <09> Mathematics -- History of... --- 51 <09> Wiskunde -- Geschiedenis van... --- Geschiedenis van de wiskunde --- History of mathematics --- Wiskunde -- Geschiedenis van... --- Statistique mathématique --- Histoire --- Statistique. Histoire. 1820-1900. --- Statistiek. Geschiedenis. 1820-1900. --- Wiskunde -- Geschiedenis van.. --- Wiskunde -- Geschiedenis van. --- Wiskunde -- Geschiedenis van --- Sciences sociales --- Statistique mathematique --- Histoire des mathematiques --- 20e siecle
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ETH Ethnobotany & Economic botany --- agriculture --- ethnobotany --- economic botany --- cereals --- history of plants --- beverages --- use --- mill
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This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones. This is done by showing that three (morpho-)phonological processes which tend to hide surface sound-meaning relationships must be taken into account when constructing a synchronic grammar of Modern English: ablaut, obstruent shift, and vowel shift.
English language --- Grammar --- 820.075.5 --- 820.075.5 Engelse literatuur--?.075.5 --- Engelse literatuur--?.075.5 --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphologie (Linguistique) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Morphology --- Morphologie --- Formation des mots. --- Morphologie. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages --- Morphology. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology
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