| Autor: |
Plamena Panayotova |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
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| Zdroj: |
Sociology and Statistics in Britain, 1833–1979 ISBN: 9783030551322 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-55133-9_3 |
| Popis: |
This chapter offers an historical overview of the development of statistics and its core methods and ideas from 1660 to 1935. It shows that the emergence of statistical thinking initiated some major changes in the understanding, analysis, manipulation and prediction of social phenomena that played a vital role in the emergence and realisation of the idea of an empirical social science. The chapter also looks at eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critiques which scholars mounted against the empirical method and quantification and in defence of the literary and philosophical tradition. Academic sociologists in Britain in the twentieth century have used very similar critiques to justify their own non-statistical (in some cases anti-statistical) approach. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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