The American Census
A Social History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11084075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Conrad Taeuber (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The American Census: A Social History, Second Edition, Margo Anderson, 2015 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2073851 |
| OpenAlex | W2331845567 |
| Language | EN |
American Community Survey · Census · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Census and Population Estimation · Demography · History
Our Natives" and "Wild Blacks
Contested Numbers
Single Parenthood in 1900
Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America
To define the indefinable’
Whiteness as War by Other Means
Statistics, History of
Censuses
Putting America’s First Empire on the Map
The Schematic State
Classification of Race and Ethnicity
Social Class
Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
Eurostat
The White Man under Siege
A Tale of Two Transcriptions. Machine-Assisted Transcription of Historical Sources
Unfolding Algorithms
The devil is in the details
Enforcing the Colorline and Counting White Races
Governmentality, territory and the U.S. census
Whiteness as War by Other Means
American Diversity
Masterless Men
Making Things Quantitative
And Just Who Do You Think You Aren't
How sampling will help defeat the undercount
The Ideological Origins of the Population Association of America
Aristotle and Open Population Thinking
Social Demography and Eugenics in the Interwar United States
Public Attitudes Toward the Census
Apportioning the House of Representatives in 2000
State-Istics and Statistics
La forme est le fond la structuration des appareils statistiques nationaux (1800-1945)
Three Eras of Young Adult Home Leaving in Twentieth-Century America
To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy
Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871-1931
Constructing Cost of Living Indexes
The Official Representation of Social Classes in Britain, the United States, and France
Cultivating Consent
The Institutional and Cultural Logics of Legal Commensuration
The Census and the Federal Statistical System
What Is Political Interference in Federal Statistics
Les échelles de la monnaie
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Les Sciences Sociales Face a la Raison Statistique (note critique)
The Devil’s in the Details
When Scale Meets Depth
Measurement of Race and Ethnicity in a Changing, Multicultural America
Ariane's Thread’
Race and the census in the Commonwealth
Asian American Identity
Diagrammatics as Physiognomy
The Politics of Naming Race and Ethnicity
Mark one or more
"Smothered" Infants-Neglect, Infanticide or Sids? A Fresh Look at the 19th Century Mortality Schedules
Die Historizität der Verdatung
The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census
A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
A century of U.S. censuses and the language characteristics of immigrants
The Missouri debates, slavery and statistics of race
The Themes of Our Epoch
Anomalías y mejoras en las estadísticas de migración internacional durante las últimas décadas
How to be Real and Conventional
Family wages
Die Differenz Haushalt vs. Markt als latentes Beobachtungsschema
Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush
Contested Numbers
Hail the Census Night
La classification canadienne des occupations pendant l'entre-deux-guerres
In the Shadow of the Swedish Welfare State
Statistics, Maps, and Legibility
Sociology in the Era of Big Data
Charting Progress
Critical Questions for Big Data
Immigration and Social Policy in the United States
Arab “Amirka”
The Norwegian census
Critical Regionalism and the Policies of Place
Sur l’émergence d’une politique de précision
Constructing ethnicity statistics in talk-in-interaction
What is the Bottom Line for Nonprofit Organizations? A History of Measurement in the British Voluntary Sector
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Whiteness and the Emergence of the Republican Party in the Early Twentieth-Century South
Beyond dichotomy
The Datafication of Everything’
Providing census tabulations to government security agencies in the United States
Survey Methods
Immigration and Techniques of Governance in Mexico and the United States
An International Perspective on Scandinavia's Historical Censuses1
Para uma arqueologia da verdade estatística
Making numbers count
Counting citizens
The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics
Shaping Knowledge about American Labor
Race, language, and social policy
Getting real
A Sociology of Quantification
Mapping the City
New Directions in the Development of Population Estimates in the United States
What is applied demography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |