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...Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon ...

... health policing microgeographies discrimination quantitative analysis ...

... seriously. The chapter gives a detailed critique of quantitative analysis of nationalism and of evolutionary cognitive understandings of religion and shows the superiority of a more interpretive anthropology in the study of nationalism and religion. It thus gives not only a critique of some existing...

... containing a hundred incident reports and allows an analysis of why certain types of health/policing incidents occur repeatedly in particular microgeographies over time. health policing microgeographies discrimination quantitative analysis ...

... the unanticipated route that stories of discrimination took as they were collected as narratives in the cities of the Amazonian region, sent to activist collectives and NGOs in capital-city Lima, and then returned to the Amazonian region in the form of statistical and quantitative data. Over the process, social...

... The evolution of Alfred Lindesmith’s classic theory of addiction is analyzed as a product of the particular intellectual currents and controversies in and for which it was developed. These include the conflicts that pitted qualitative against quantitative sociology; the fledgling discipline...

..., including ethnography, to learn more about consumers. These workers act as agents of capitalism in several ways: by making their clients' quantitative data more qualitative through ethnographic studies; by educating clients about their market(s); by ethnographizing consumers in order to improve...

... Chapter 1 evaluates Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice in terms of earlier city views and a near-contemporary innovation in cartography—the Venetian state’s decision to systematically collect quantitative and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them...

... informed Namaste’s other organizational characteristics, including its values, bureaucratic structure, and embeddedness in foreign, rather than local, networks. These characteristics ensured a reliance on specialization, simplified views of women, monitoring, paperwork, and quantitative data, as well...

... pass off quantitative metrics as qualitative judgments, equating digital signals with the engagement they allegedly index. musical spam attention economy click fraud metrics ...

... the problem of translation seriously. The chapter gives a detailed critique of quantitative analysis of nationalism and of evolutionary cognitive understandings of religion and shows the superiority of a more interpretive anthropology in the study of nationalism and religion. It thus gives not only a critique...

... The introduction sets up the history of anthropology’s comparative approach, initiated by Mauss and Weber. It argues against striving for unified theories, though, resisting the growing tendency to define science as a method of model making based on variables and quantitative samples...

... Chapter 1 evaluates Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice in terms of earlier city views and a near-contemporary innovation in cartography—the Venetian state’s decision to systematically collect quantitative and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them...