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The study shows how social reality enters into Adalbert Stifters late texts despite their artificiality. In these texts, objectivity is characterized by the absence of description. This abstract objectivity does not refer to a concretely depicted object but to the form of perception itself. This form of perception - here the work refers to Theodor W. Adorno - is mediated through social practice.

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What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.

Objectivity. --- Science --- Social aspects. --- Objectivity