Statistics, Social Science, and the Culture of Objectivity
Contrary to the presumption common in the social sciences, that culture and rationality are in opposition and mutually exclusive of each other - a presumption shared by such different approaches as game theory, rational choice theory and cultural anthropology - , the author emphazises that cu...
Main Author: | Theodore M. Porter |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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StudienVerlag
1996-01-01
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Series: | Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften |
Online Access: | https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5643 |
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