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The sociology of quantification is the investigation of quantification as a sociological phenomenon in its own right.[1]

  1. ^ W. N. Espeland and M. L. Stevens, “A sociology of quantification,” Eur. J. Sociol., vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 401–436, 2008.

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