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Notes on social measurement : historical and critical /

Social measurement, like physical measurement, is a persistent theme in human history. In this essay, an eminent sociologist suggests that social measurement has its roots in the social process itself, broadly conceived, and not specifically in the scientific method as it developed in the seventeent...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Duncan, Otis Dudley
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1984]
Collection:Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Inventing Social Measurement ; References ; 2. Historical Metrology ; References ; 3. More Inventions ; References ; 4. On Scales of Measurement ; References ; 5. Measurement: The Real Thing ; References ; 6. Psychophysics ; References ; 7. Psychometrics ; References ; 8. Social Measurement: Predicaments and Practices ; References ; Acknowledgments ; Name Index ; Subject Index.