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      What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification

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          Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been a corresponding increase in scholarship on quantification. We offer an assessment of the widely dispersed literature on quantification across four domains where quantification and quantification scholarship have particularly flourished: administration, democratic rule, economics, and personal life. In doing so, we seek to stimulate more cross-disciplinary debate and exchange. We caution against unifying accounts of quantification and highlight the importance of tracking quantification across different sites in order to appreciate its essential ambiguity and conduct more systematic investigations of interactions between different quantification regimes.

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                Journal
                Annual Review of Sociology
                Annu. Rev. Sociol.
                Annual Reviews
                0360-0572
                1545-2115
                July 30 2019
                July 30 2019
                : 45
                : 1
                : 223-245
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom;
                [2 ]Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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                10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041343
                168a713b-f015-46df-86b5-13315e975998
                © 2019

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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