- Title
- Introduction: special measures
- Creator
- Adkins, Lisa; Lury, Celia
- Relation
- Measure and Value p. 5-23
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02051.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Issues of measure and value and the relations between the two have inhabited the heartland of sociology since its inception. This continues to be the case even as many commentaries on the current state of the discipline position sociology as occupying a space beyond such concerns. Thus, while many of the texts now recognized as constituting the sociological canon wrestled with questions of how and if sociology could be defined by its abilities to measure, record and document aspects of the social, and of how and if such measurements might be entangled with values, much contemporary sociological commentary appears to foreclose these questions by proposing that the organization of the contemporary world is beyond both social facts and social meaning (Law, 2004; Law and Urry, 2004). But it is the contention of this Special Issue that questions of measure and value should not and cannot be assigned to the sociological past. This is so not least because while the contemporary world may not be organized and ordered via a separation of reality and representation, facts and values, the concrete and the abstract, and is not straightforwardly amenable to either the methods of positivism or constructionism, it is also one in which there is a proliferation of information, data, calculative and other research instruments, measurements and valuations.
- Subject
- measure; value; sociology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053356
- Identifier
- uon:15569
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781444339581
- Language
- eng
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