Disciplining Statistics : Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 /

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Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schweber, Libby
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bevolkingsstatistiek.
Demografie.
Demographie
Demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Demographie > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Demographie > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Demography > England > History > 19th century.
Demography > France > History > 19th century.
Engeland.
Frankrijk.
England
Frankreich
France.
England.
Angleterre > Statistiques de l'etat civil > Histoire > 19e siecle.
France > Statistiques de l'etat civil > Histoire > 19e siecle.
England > Statistics, Vital > History > 19th century.
France > Statistics, Vital > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The struggle for disciplinary recognition: why "invent" a discipline in nineteenth-century France?
  • The "invention" of demography, 1853/1855
  • The neglect of demography, 1855/1867
  • The re-invention of demography, 1867/1878
  • The institutionalization of vital statistics in England: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
  • The invention of vital statistics, 1830/1837
  • Vital statistics as an instrument of social reform
  • The institutionalization of demography in France: how to "secure" a discipline in nineteenth-century France
  • Discipline formation at last
  • Limits to institutionalization
  • The struggle to retain disciplinary recognition: how to "defend" a discipline in nineteenth-century England
  • The challenge to vital statistics
  • Institutional transformations and the introduction of disciplinary specialization.

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