Quantifying Accidents
Cars, Statistics, and Unintended Consequences in the Construction of Social Problems Over Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4245262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Itai Vardi |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-367 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-0436 • E-ISSN: 1573-7837 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11133-014-9280-1 |
| OpenAlex | W2025366009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 84 |
Argument (complex analysis · Argumentation theory · Crash · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Salient · Social science · Sociology · Unintended consequences · American History and Culture · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
Bridgework
Road safety beyond the automobility norm? Can Swedish road safety policy escape the automobility norm and facilitate cycling instead – lessons from the Netherlands
Cautionary Tales
Popular Hazards and Policy Rhetoric
We’re a Disease to Someone”
In the name, she lives on
Re-assembling automobility
Re-storying gendered im/mobilities through a mobile and generationed autoethnography
The culture of public problems
Organizations
Demystifying social statistics
Down the asphalt path
Damned Lies and Statistics
Postmodernity and Its Discontents
The Sociology of Social Problems
Vital Accounts
The Taming of Chance
Risk and Blame
The Empire of Chance
Republic of Drivers
Fighting Traffic
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Pricing the priceless child
Discipline and Punish
Mobility without Mayhem
Making Crime Count
Body Counts
Images of Issues
Moral Panics
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900
Dying of Consumption
Teen driving as public drama
Estimating the Number of Homeless
Essay Review
Quantifying Social Entities
Contested Meanings
The Sociology of Social Problems
Number Magic
The Show Must Go on
Hell on Wheels
America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910
Creating Control Systems
Constructing Social Problems
Risk and Blame
Speed Kills
Discipline and Punish
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Crash
The Natural History of a Social Problem
The Iron Cage Revisited
On the Frontier of The Empire of Chance
Objectification, standardization, and commodification in health care
Reflections
Speaking about accidents
A Sociology of Quantification
Quantification
Statistics and the State
Quantifying Automobility
Contested Meanings
The Politics of Alcoholism
Counting Things and People
Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts
Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems
Assessing the Seriousness of Social Problems
Social Problems as Collective Behavior
The Lens of Victim Contests and Youth Crime Stat Wars
From Accident to Crash
Commensuration as a Social Process
Social Problems Theory
Cognitive Claims-Making, Enclosure, and the Depoliticization of Social Problems
Rankings and Reactivity
The Rise and Fall of Social Problems
Institutionalized Organizations
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |