Counting the dead and regulating the living: Early modern statistics and the formation of the sociological imagination (1662-1897)

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 603-621

  Bayatrizi, Zohreh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bio politics; Genealogy of sociology; History of sociology; Moral statistics; Quantitative sociology; Risk; Sociological imagination; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LIFE EVENT; MORALITY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORALS; POLITICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 69249115218     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: 14684446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01260.x     Document Type: Article

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