Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 19, 2021
The authors wish to note the following: "Shortly after the publication of our article we were contacted by another team of researchers (Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Eunhye Ahn, John Prindle, and DanielWebster) who have access to privately funded data from Calif ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2021
This article provides county-level estimates of the cumulative prevalence of four levels of Child Protective Services (CPS) contact using administrative data from the 20 most populous counties in the United States. Rates of CPS investigation are extremely ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives on Politics · September 1, 2017
I informally examine how the idea of public sociology has been affected by the rise of social media. New social media platforms disintermediate communication, make people more visible, and encourage public life to be measured. They tend to move the discipl ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Theory · June 1, 2017
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Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the abstraction on which good theory depends. I describe three "nuance traps" common in sociology and show why they should be avoided ...
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Journal ArticleSocio-Economic Review · January 1, 2017
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What do markets see when they look at people? Information dragnets increasingly yield huge quantities of individual-level data, which are analyzed to sort and slot people into categories oftaste, riskiness or worth. These tools deepen the reach of the mark ...
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Journal ArticleHistorical Social Research · January 1, 2017
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This article examines the stratifying effects of economic classifications. We argue that in the neoliberal era market institutions increasingly use actuarial techniques to split and sort individuals into classification situations that shape life-chances. W ...
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Journal ArticleHistorical Social Research · January 1, 2017
Scores and classifications are dual to one another. Cardinal and ordinal measures are repeatedly used to produce nominal classifications of essential worth. Conversely, presumptively natural kinds provide the basis for new measurement and scoring systems. ...
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Journal ArticleArchives Europeennes de Sociologie · August 7, 2015
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The performativity thesis is the claim that parts of contemporary economics and finance, when carried out into the world by professionals and popularizers, reformat and reorganize the phenomena they purport to describe, in ways that bring the world into li ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual review of sociology · July 2014
Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, we discuss recent ...
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Journal ArticleAccounting, Organizations and Society · January 1, 2013
This article examines the stratifying effects of economic classifications. We argue that in the neoliberal era market institutions increasingly use actuarial techniques to split and sort individuals into classification situations that shape life-chances. W ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2008
Productive exchange between disciplines faces a paradox. Modern fields of enquiry are large, differentiated, and always growing. This means their boundaries are extensive, and there are many areas of potential contact between them. We are spoiled for share ...
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Chapter · February 12, 2004
The Sociology of the Economy demonstrates the vitality of empirical research in the field of economic sociology and the power of sociological models in explaining how markets operate. ...
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