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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