7. Counting People
Content for Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Summary
This week we think about the nature and origins of data, using the US Census as an example.
Reading
- Maciej Cegłowski “Scott and Scurvy,” 2010, https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm.
- Paul Starr “Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State,” Social Research 59, no. 2 (1992): 263–295.
- G. Cristina Mora “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990,” American Sociological Review 79, no. 2 (2014): 183–210, doi:10.1177/0003122413509813.
Slides
The slide decks for this week (there are two again) are available here.
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