Numbers are the product of our cultural and determinative interaction with reality. Within language, numbers are primarily found as grammaticalised forms of quantification and anchoring. But they are also regularly part of fixed phrases within which their purely numerical dimension sometimes disappear, loses its density or combines with a symbolical value which has historically been quite activ...

Technology acquisition is an important but neglected issue within the social science analysis of technology. The limited number of studies undertaken reproduce a schism between rationalist (e.g., economic) forms of analysis, where the assumption is that choice is the outcome of formal assessment, and cultural sociological approaches which see choice as driven by the micro-politics of the organi...

This paper proposes a re-thinking of the relationship between sociology and the biological sciences. Tracing lines of connection between the history of sociology and the contemporary landscape of biology, the paper argues for a refiguration of this relationship beyond popular rhetorics of 'biologization' or 'medicalization.' At the heart of the paper is a claim that, today, there are some poten...

This article examines the crucial role that Impact Assessment plays in structuring positive outcomes for academic achievements public basic schools education finance policy milieu. The Capitation Grant is used to make this case, and show understanding using as a paradigm becomes useful foundation establish well-grounded implementation process. view stems from fact has proved itself be dominant ...

Rising concerns around antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have led to a renewed push rationalise antibiotic prescribing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is increasing unease conceptualising use as individuals behaving ‘(ir)rationally’ recognition that rising emergent of contributing wider economic political challenges. But between these individual societal ‘drivers’ an everyday ar...

* Most of the work on this volume was accomplished during my stay as Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. I express my deep appreciation of the vibrant intellectual atmosphere at the Center and acknowledge the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities which funded my fellowship. I also acknowledge the copyeditor Bela Malik whose intelligence and meticulousne...

M ost people agree that computer science will play a significant role in the global information society. But what will that role be? Analyzing the part knowledge played in the agrarian, industrial, and information societies—which correspond roughly to the past, present, and future—can help answer this question. In an agrarian society, people provide the main source of energy, in the sense that ...