Menschen zählen Wissensproduktion durch britische Volkszählungen und Umfragen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis ins digitale Zeitalter
This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative methodology. It describes this history in the context of censuses and survey re...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | German |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2015
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| Series: | Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London/ Publications of the German Historical Institute London
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative methodology. It describes this history in the context of censuses and survey research in Great Britain, focusing on the actors involved, methodology, social classifications, and questions about race, ethnicity and disabilities. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110407785 9783110407853 9783110407884 |
| Access: | Open Access |