Schweber / Adams / Steinmetz Disciplining Statistics

Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8852-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweber, Libby

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. The Struggle for Disciplinary Recognition: Why “Invent” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France

1. The “Invention” of Demography, 1853–1855 35

2. The Neglect of Demography, 1855–1867 49

3. The Reinvention of Demography, 1867–1878 67

Part II. The Institutionalization of Vital Statistics in England: How to “Secure” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century England

4. The Invention of Vital Statistics, 1830–1837 93

5. Vital Statistics as an Instrument of Social Reform 105

Part III. The Institutionalization of Demography in France: How to “Secure” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France

6. Discipline Formation at Last 135

7. Limits to Institutionalization 157

Part IV. The Struggle to Retain Disciplinary Recognition: How to “Defend” a Discipline in Nineteenth-Century England

8. The Challenge to Vital Statistics 179

9. Institutional Transformations and the Introduction of Disciplinary Specialization 191

Conclusion 213

Notes 227

Bibliography 253

Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Libby Schweber is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Reading.