Download or read book Introduction aux m thodes statistiques en sociologie written by Thierry Blöss and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis Emile Durkheim, l'utilisation des méthodes statistiques en sociologie n'a cessé de se développer. Cet ouvrage s'adresse tout particulièrement aux étudiants de cette discipline. Il a été conçu avant tout comme un " instrument de travail " destiné à présenter les différentes méthodes et techniques statistiques essentielles au traitement des données. La présentation de ces méthodes s'appuie sur des exemples concrets extraits d'enquêtes sociologiques. Quel intérêt y a-t-il à calculer tel ou tel indice ? Quel sens prend cette opération dans le travail d'enquête ? Comment interpréter les résultats ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte les réponses nécessaires à des étudiants de sociologie parfois déroutés par l'apprentissage des statistiques qu'ils identifient trop vite aux mathématiques. Comme manuel d'introduction, cet ouvrage a pour objectif de faire comprendre la contribution de la statistique à l'analyse des faits sociaux. Il expose les principales techniques d'analyse utilisées dans les logiciels de traitement de données les plus répandus.

Download or read book Le raisonnement statistique en sociologie written by Marion Selz and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quoi servent les statistiques en sociologie ? Comment quantifier les faits sociaux ? Comment le sociologue doit-il construire, analyser et interpréter les données statistiques et prendre conscience de leurs limites ? Ce manuel démystifie l'usage de la statistique en sociologie en présentant ses concepts fondamentaux sans aucune formule mathématique. Il montre que seul un bon qualitativiste peut être un bon quantitativiste et fait ainsi abandonner les polémiques légendaires opposant les deux pratiques. Le lecteur comprendra d'où vient la contradiction qui semble exister entre deux réputations, celle d'objectivité des statistiques et celle de fragilité des chiffres auxquels on pourrait faire dire une chose et son contraire.

Download or read book Sociologie et statistique written by Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (France). Journée d'étude (1982 : Paris). and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pour une sociologie historique de la quantification written by Alain Desrosières and published by Presses des MINES. This book was released on 2008 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La quantification est devenue un signe d’objectivité, de rigueur et d’impartialité mobilisée dans des situations très variées, depuis le débat politique jusqu’à la démonstration scientifique, en passant par les indicateurs d’entreprise ou la mesure de l’opinion publique. Or, la quantification, sous ses différents formats statistiques, ne se contente pas de fournir un reflet du monde, elle crée une nouvelle façon de le penser, de le représenter, de l’exprimer et d’agir sur lui, à la fois par la puissance de ses modèles et de ses procédures, par leur diffusion et par leurs usages argumentatifs. Ce livre montre comment s’est historiquement construit « l’argument statistique », et quels sont aujourd’hui les effets cognitifs et sociaux des dispositifs de quantification. Il ne s’adresse pas uniquement aux sociologues, aux historiens de sciences et aux statisticiens soucieux d’une réflexion sur leurs pratiques et leur histoire, mais aussi à tous les citoyens confrontés aux appareils statistiques et mesurés par eux.

Download or read book La statistique en action written by Stéphane Moulin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pour une sociologie historique de la quantification written by Alain Desrosières and published by Presses des Mines via OpenEdition. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La quantification est devenue un signe d’objectivité, de rigueur et d’impartialité mobilisée dans des situations très variées, depuis le débat politique jusqu’à la démonstration scientifique, en passant par les indicateurs d’entreprise ou la mesure de l’opinion publique. Or, la quantification, sous ses différents formats statistiques, ne se contente pas de fournir un reflet du monde, elle crée une nouvelle façon de le penser, de le représenter, de l’exprimer et d’agir sur lui, à la fois par la puissance de ses modèles et de ses procédures, par leur diffusion et par leurs usages argumentatifs. Ce livre montre comment s’est historiquement construit « l’argument statistique », et quels sont aujourd’hui les effets cognitifs et sociaux des dispositifs de quantification. Il ne s’adresse pas uniquement aux sociologues, aux historiens de sciences et aux statisticiens soucieux d’une réflexion sur leurs pratiques et leur histoire, mais aussi à tous les citoyens confrontés aux appareils statistiques et mesurés par eux.

Download or read book Cahiers du Centre de math matique et de statistique appliqu es aux sciences sociales written by Centre de mathématiques et de statistique appliquées aux sciences sociales (Bruxelles) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs written by Robert Leroux and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to place Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance. The book does this, not by summarizing or synthesizing his thinking, by the growing literature embodied by many sociologists and historians of social sciences, published for the most part in scientific journals, that focus on the sociological thought that Halbwachs developed in his writings. Then come many studies that emerge from the history of ideas and epistemology: these are entirely devoted to a particular facet of Halbwachs’ work, either to place it in its scientific context or to discuss it on the basis of fundamental cognitive issues.

Download or read book Prouver et gouverner written by Alain Desrosières and published by La Découverte. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les statistiques sont partout. Chacun ressent confusément que, certes, elles fournissent des données utiles sur la société, mais qu'elles servent aussi d'instruments de pouvoir. Comment respecter les informations qu'elles apportent et en même temps les envisager comme politiques ? Alain Desrosières est mort alors qu'il mettait la dernière main à ce livre, qui devrait faire date, au même titre que La Politique des grands nombres, devenu un classique et traduit dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, les statistiques sont partout. Chacun ressent confusément que, certes, elles fournissent des données utiles sur la société, mais qu'elles servent aussi d'instruments de pouvoir. Comment respecter les informations qu'elles apportent et en même temps les envisager comme politiques ? C'est à cette question clé que ce livre entend répondre, en explicitant l'ambivalence inhérente aux données quantitatives. En douze chapitres historiques concernant le gouvernement néolibéral, les institutions internationales ou les rapports entre quantification et sciences sociales, le lecteur apprendra à faire le tri dans le déferlement quotidien de chiffres. Alain Desrosières est prématurément décédé alors qu'il mettait la dernière main à la rédaction de ce livre, qui devrait faire date au même titre que La Politique des grands nombres (La Découverte, 1993), devenu un classique et traduit dans le monde entier. Il avait successivement travaillé avec Pierre Bourdieu puis avec les chercheurs français impliqués dans la sociologie de la critique et la sociologie des sciences, deux des environnements les plus innovants intellectuellement en France depuis les années 1980. Il est le fondateur de la sociohistoire de la statistique, une discipline qui se développe désormais très rapidement, en France comme à l'étranger. Ce livre très accessible et d'une grande portée politique peut être considéré comme son testament intellectuel.

Download or read book Discourses on Society written by Peter Wagner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such.

Download or read book The Social Sciences of Quantification written by Isabelle Bruno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details how quantification can serve both as evidence and as an instrument of government, whether when dealing with statistics on employment, occupational health and economic governance, or when developing public management or target-driven policies. In the process, it presents a thought-provoking homage to Alain Desrosières, who pioneered ways to study large numbers and the politics underlying them. It opens with a summary of Desrosières's contributions to the field in which several generations of researchers detail how this statistician and historian profoundly influenced them. This tribute, based on personal testimonies, bears witness to the vitality of the school of thought and analytical framework Desrosières initiated. Next, a collection of essays explores the statistical argument in the neoliberal era, examining issues such as counting the homeless in Europe, measuring the performance of public services, and quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed in France. The third part details the uses of quantification. It reveals that although statistics are frequently used to the advantage of those in power, they can also play a vital role in challenging and resisting both the conventions underlying the measurements as well as the measurements themselves.Featuring the work of economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and statisticians, this title provides readers with a thoughtful look at an influential figure in the history of statistics. It also shows how statistics are used to direct public policy, the degree of conflict that is possible in their production, and the disputes that can develop around their uses.

Download or read book Sociologie Et Religions written by Liliane Voyé and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the relations between sociology and the different religions--Christianity with its various branches, Judaism, Islam, Oriental religions, sects and New Religious Movements? That is the question which this work, conceived on the occasion of the XXVth Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion/Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions (SISR), wishes to clarify.The book retraces the varied and troubled history of these relations and also reveals how in opening up its research to other religions besides the Christian, sociology is forced to redefine the very object of its field of study. What is the religious? This question, which until recently was considered impertinent, informs this book throughout.If confronts the necessity of rethinking theories and methodological approaches which, constructed in the context of 19th and early 20th century Western Europe, prove to be rather inadequate for encompassing contemporary religious phenomena and religious manifestations in other contexts. To these new theoretical and methodological demands is added, for the sociologist, a deontological imperative, which takes on all the more importance today as the religious provokes passionate social debate.

Download or read book Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology written by Philippe Steiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of the development of Durkheim's economic sociology Émile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology is the first book to provide an in-depth look at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers. Philippe Steiner demonstrates the relevance of economic factors to sociology and shows how the Durkheimians inform today's economic systems. Steiner argues that there are two stages in Durkheim's approach to the economy—a sociological critique of political economy and a sociology of economic knowledge. In his early works, Durkheim critiques economists and their categories, and tries to analyze the division of labor from a social rather than economic perspective. From the mid-1890s onward, Durkheim's preoccupations shifted to questions of religion and the sociology of knowledge. Durkheim's disciples, such as Maurice Halbwachs and François Simiand, synthesized and elaborated on Durkheim's first-stage arguments, while his ideas on religion and the economy were taken up by Marcel Mauss. Steiner indicates that the ways in which the Durkheimians rooted the sociology of economic knowledge in the educational system allows for an invaluable perspective on the role of economics in modern society, similar to the perspective offered by Max Weber's work. Recognizing the power of the Durkheimian approach, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology assesses the effect of this important thinker and his successors on one of the most active fields in contemporary sociology.

Download or read book The Politics of Large Numbers written by Alain Desrosières and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins with study of history of statistics, and shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments.

Download or read book The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought written by George Steinmetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a history of the field of sociology as it existed from the interwar, wartime, and postwar periods in France and its Empire. This does not refer just to sociologists who did some work in the colonies, or occasionally thought about them in their metropolitan work, but a specific field which was constituted to understand and then govern these colonies. The author argues that the re-founding of French sociology during and after World War II - which spawned the likes of Raymond Aron, Jacques Berque, Georges Balandier, and Pierre Bourdieu - occurred within the context of the re-founding of the French empire. Though there was been much discussion of "decolonizing" sociology in the postwar period, the deep history of sociology's connection to French colonialism and empire has been ignored when, the author argues, it is central. The main driver of the expansion of sociology in this period was colonial developmentalism. Sociologists became favored partners of colonial governments, applying their expertise to an array of "social problems," such as de-tribalization, poverty, labor migration, rapid urbanization and the growth of shantytowns, and the decay of traditional families and religious beliefs, and working on "modernizing" solutions. Many sociologists whose careers began in the overseas colonies formulated concepts and theories that quickly entered metropolitan (and then global) sociology, and their origins were forgotten. Steinmetz examines the ways in colonial sociologists differed from the rest of the discipline -in many ways they represented its most dynamic cutting edge-and how their locations may have affected their intellectual agendas and scholarship. He explores the ways in which these sociologists networked and tracks their major intellectual innovations and influence as a group. He also explores the marginalization faced by both sociologists working in the colonies and those born there, while showing the ways in which they were able to overcome them. The specific challenges of colonial sociology-including some very strongly anticolonial colonial sociologists-shaped sociological theory in ways that are still dominant. The book amounts to a historical sociology of French academia all told-with an emphasis on sociology and other human sciences-as well as a collective biography of many of the major figures, many who are continually read and cited to this day"--

Download or read book Changing Structures of Inequality written by Yannick Lemel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a key explanation to social inequalities while others challenge the long-standing tradition of class analysis. New approaches have been proposed to describe recent social changes in the stratification system: vanishing middle class, two-thirds societies, cosmographic inequality, and classless society, among others.

Download or read book Counting Populations Understanding Societies written by Véronique Petit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development. The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography centered on the ‘core of procedures and references’ and a more open form of demography, generally referred to as Population Studies. Many rapprochements, missed opportunities and isolated attempts marked the disciplinary history of anthropology and demography, both disciplines being founded on distinct and highly differentiated traditions and practices. Moreover, the role and the place assigned to epistemology differ significantly in ethnology and demography. Yet, anthropology and demography provide complementary models and research instruments and this book shows that neither discipline can afford to overlook their respective contributions. Based on research conducted in West Africa over more than twenty years, it is a defense of field demography that makes case for a continuum ranging from the initial conception of fieldwork and research to its effective implementation and to data analysis. Changes in behaviors relating to fertility, poverty or migration cannot be interpreted without invoking the cultural factor at some stage. Representations in their collective and individual dimensions also fit into the extended explanatory space of demography.