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Title: Linearity, Nonlinearity, and the Competing Constructions of Social Hierarchy in Early Twentieth-Century Canada
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2004
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Abstract: Since the 1960s, scholars have increasingly emphasized the ways in which routinely generated sources such as the census should be understood as creations of a quantitative mentality or statistical mind. However, this emphasis overlooks the fact that it was a particular type of thinking, namely, linearity, that in modem times characterized the features of those sources. Census forms were certainly designed by statistical minds, but, more important, they were crafted within a world view determined to impose linearity on understandings of change and the construction of social hierarchies.
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Authors: Gaffield, Chad
Periodical (Full): Historical Methods
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Pages: 255-260
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity
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