Masses, individus, moyennes : la statistique sociale au XIXe siècle

Desrosières, Alain

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“…Even more, it is the sign of a clever intuition. Guerry was convinced that there was something in the analyzes of the distributions of crime counts which had to go beyond the computation of mere averages, the fashion of his time (see (Desrosières 1988)). The analogy with the astronomical concept of libration is clear.…”

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“…Among a significant list of authors are two early statisticians Charles Dupin (1784-1873) and Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès (1778-1870), both members of the Academy of Sciences. Lively descriptions of the works of statisticians of this time and of their acceptance by the civil society can be found in (Bru, Bru, and Bienaymé 1997), (Desrosières 1988) and Bernard Ycart (Ycart 2016). Guerry's publication contains two distinct parts.…”

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A conjectural and partial understanding of statistical libration indices in André-Michel Guerry’s 1864 Atlas

De Falguerolles

2023

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Une compréhension conjecturale et partielle des indices de libration statistiques dans l'Atlas de 1864 d'André-Michel GuerryAntoine De Falguerolles I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Michael Friendly for introducing me to the work of Guerry. I am extremely grateful to Ludovic Lebart, Gilles Palsky, Bernard Ycard, and Michael Friendly for encouraging me to write my notes on Guerry's Plate XVII. I also want to thank Brian Francis for the information on the British libraries and, of course, the two referees. All errors and false interpretations remain mine.

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A conjectural and partial understanding of statistical libration indices in André-Michel Guerry’s 1864 Atlas

De Falguerolles

2023

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“…As already mentioned earlier, the interpretation of the mean by Quetelet was accused of leading to moral fatalism, which negated the freedom of individualwill, and facilitated a form of social fatalism whereby society depended on superior laws that one could not combat (on Quetelet and the mean, see Desrosières, 1988;Porter, 1986, ch. 2 and 4;Thévenot, 1994).…”

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Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR

Mespoulet

2021

The New Politics of Numbers

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When it came to power, the Bolshevik government based the legitimacy of its action on the scientific nature of its decisions, figures being a core element. Political decisions were to be based on science, for the well-being of everyone and the fulfilment of the communist plan to create a new society and human being. Statistics, an information and decision-support tool, became now also an instrument of power to prove the soundness of state action. This raised severe tensions and repression, between statisticians following recommendations of international statistics congresses, and the new government. For the duty of statisticians was to formulate a new theory of statistics and new methods and tools. Characterizing some of these, the chapter carves out the specific nature of the Soviet Union.

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“…Par ces considérations, les hygiénistes font leur un problème qui intéresse les sciences sociales tout au long du XIX e siècle : il s'agit, comme Alain Desrosières l'a analysé, de la question du nombre, de la manière dont les statisticiens sociaux se dotent d'outils « pour comprendre comment une masse peut devenir un tout », pour penser l'articulation de l'individu au collectif et « la mise en équivalence potentielle entre les individus 28 ». Le problème que la santé des troupes pose aux hygiénistes fait écho, en de nouveaux termes, à celui de l'homme moyen qu'Adolphe Quetelet a popularisé dans les années 1830.…”

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Expérimenter la santé des grands nombres : les hygiénistes militaires et l’armée française, 1850-1914

Rasmussen¹

2017

Le Mouvement Social

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Masses, individus, moyennes : la statistique sociale au XIXe siècle

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

A conjectural and partial understanding of statistical libration indices in André-Michel Guerry’s 1864 Atlas

A conjectural and partial understanding of statistical libration indices in André-Michel Guerry’s 1864 Atlas

Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR

Expérimenter la santé des grands nombres : les hygiénistes militaires et l’armée française, 1850-1914

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