The history of measurement and the engineers of space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5773029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Barry (0000-0002-7632-9334, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-468 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007087400031460 |
| OpenAlex | W2154602024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 54 |
For the social theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, measurement, quantification and calculation were of particular social and political significance. Karl Marx, in Capital , based his critique of classical political economy on an analysis of the quantification of labour as a commodity. Max Weber, in Economy and Society , emphasized the importance of rational calculation in the conduct of modern bureaucratic organizations. And in his major work, The Philosophy of Money , Georg Simmel highlighted what he called 'the calculating character of modern times
Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Capital (architecture · Character (mathematics · Commodity · Economics · Epistemology · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social character · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics · Engineering · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
Študije znanosti z lokalnimi značilnostmi
Planetary pictures
Opposition is True Friendship
For an empire of ‘all types of climate’
Reframing science and other local knowledge traditions
Climate Data Agency
Weather geographies
Big Food and Little Data
The politics of percentage
The spaces of actor-network theory
Epistemic geographies of climate change
Geographies of science
Spatial Phenomenotechnics
From the Science of Accounts to the Financial Accountability of Science
A World Free From Hunger
Engineering Cities
Field science in the Railroad Era
Here and Everywhere
The control revolution
Changing order
The Sources of Social Power
Science as Practice and Culture
The Taming of Chance
The Invisible Weapon
Culture and Government
The Social Production of Art
Science Observed
Surveillance, power, and modernity
Distinction
The Visible Hand
Distinction
Max Weber
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900
Statistical Theory and Social Interests
The Socio-political Roots of Boris Hessen
Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism
On Postmodernism and Articulation
A Working Bibliography
Health and efficiency
Knowledge and Reflexivity
The pasteurization of France
The European Community and European government
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Scientific Communities or Transepistemic Arenas of Research? A Critique of Quasi-Economic Models of Science
History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions
When Old Technologies Were New
The Nation-State and Violence
The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reason
Écosystèmes, civilisations et sociétés humaines
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Power, Interests and the Outcomes of Struggles
Governing economic life
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |