[Week 6] February 10+12 - "Society" as a statistical construct
Section outline
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Monday: Presentation by RitaWednesday: Presentation by Mykhaylo
Assigned reading:
[John Herschel], "Quetelet on probabilities," The Edinburgh Review 92 (1850): 1-8. (The introductory pages from a much longer review essay)
Michael Donnelly, "From political arithmetic to social statistics: How some nineteenth-century roots of the social sciences were implanted," in Johan Heilbron et al., eds., The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity (1998), 225-239.
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