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Notes on social measurement : historical and critical
- Title
- Notes on social measurement : historical and critical / Otis Dudley Duncan.
- Author
- Duncan, Otis Dudley.
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1984.
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Book/Text | Use in library | HM253 .D86 1984 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 256 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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 seventeenth and later centuries.
- Series Statement
- 75th Anniversary Series
- Uniform Title
- Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series ; v.1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Contents
- Inventing social measurement -- Historical metrology -- More inventions -- On scales of measurement -- Measurement : the real thing -- Psychopysics -- Psychometrics -- Social measurement : predicaments and practices.
- ISBN
- 0871542196
- 9780871542199
- LCCN
- 83062503
- OCLC
- ocm11203562
- 11203562
- SCSB-608533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library