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Published: 10 March 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023692-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2369-2
Published: 04 March 1997
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382720-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8272-0
Series: Science and Cultural Theory
Published: 01 January 2004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8564-6
...Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon ...
Book Chapter

By Mark C. Smith
Published: 01 January 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822398080-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9808-0
Series: Politics, History, and Culture
Published: 25 April 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386889-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8688-9
Book Chapter

By Jeffrey Lesser
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9411-1
... health policing microgeographies discrimination quantitative analysis ...
Book Chapter

By Peter van der Veer
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... 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...
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By Jeffrey Lesser
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059936-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9411-1
... 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 ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 11 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060789-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6078-9
... 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...
Published: 23 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059813-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5981-3
... 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...
Published: 22 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059349-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5934-9
..., 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...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... 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...
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By Erin Beck
Published: 21 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372912-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7291-2
... 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...
Published: 29 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027874-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2787-4
... pass off quantitative metrics as qualitative judgments, equating digital signals with the engagement they allegedly index. musical spam attention economy click fraud metrics ...
Book Chapter

By Peter van der Veer
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... 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...
Book Chapter

By Peter van der Veer
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... 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...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... 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...