Measure and value / edited by Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub./The Sociology Review,
2012.
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| Series: | Sociological review monograph.
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1444339583 9781444339581 |