...people. I claim that enumeration requires categorization, and that defining new classes of people for the purposes of statistics has consequences for the ways...conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities. Another philosophical theme is reasoning. In thinking about science we have become...

...pointed out that 'enumeration requires categorization, and . . . defining new classes of people for the purposes of statistics has consequences for the ways...conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities' (1990: 6). Such 'counting', as Foucault also argued, is essential to modern government:...

...[the] defining [of] new classes of people for the purpose of statistics has consequences for the way in which we conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities. 1Hacking 1990: 6. cited in Bonnett and Carrington 2000: 4891 '"Counting" leads to the...

...people. I claim that enumeration requires categorization, and that defining new classes of people for the purposes of statistics has consequences for the ways...conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities. . . . PART FOUR Analysing quantitative data INTRODUCTION CARRYING OUT A LARGE social...

...he argues, define new classes of people, normalize their ways of being in the world, and also have "consequences for the ways in which we conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities" (1990:6). Hacking views categories and statistics as making up people, but I am concerned...

...he argues, define new classes of people, normalize their ways of being in the world, and also have "consequences for the ways in which we conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities" (1990, p. 6). Hacking views categories and statistics as "making up people," but I...