Data in Society

Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4822-1
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, governmental and social organisations in multiple settings.

Analysing the power of data to shape political debate, the presentation of ideas to us by the media, and issues surrounding data ownership and access, the authors suggest how data can be used to uncover injustices and to advance social progress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Jeff

Ruane, Sally

Southall, Humphrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ridgway, Jim

Johnston, Ron

Bounegru, Liliana

Gray, Jonathan

Sippitt, Amy

Hedger, Spencer

Sutherland, Sinclair

Nicholson, James

Brookfield, Charlotte

Sloan, Luke

Williams, Malcolm

Yasukawa, Keiko

Goodman, James

Dados, Nour

Bloor, Kate

Simpson, Ludi

Duncan-Jordan, Neil

Ginn, Jay

Cookson, Richard

Doran, Tim

Carr-Hill, Roy

Walker, David

Sikka, Prem

Boden, Rebecca

Bivand, Paul

Lansley, Stewart

Deeming, Christopher

Fothergill, Steve

Beatty, Christina

Byrne, David

Rhind, David

Murphy, Richard

D'Angelo, Alessio

Kofman, Eleonore

Blitz, Brad K

Tear, Adrian

Hearne, Gary

Shepherd, Ifan

Gilbert, Ruth

Goldstein, Harvey

McConway, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Jeff Evans and Sally Ruane;

1: How Data are Changing;

Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;

Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway;

The creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth Gilbert

Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne;

Social Media Data ~ Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall;

2: Counting in a Globalised world;

Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans;

Adult Skills Surveys and Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;

Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill;

Counting the Population in Need of International Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman;

Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard Murphy;

3: The Changing Role of the State;

Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall;

The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics ~ David Rhind;

The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;

Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill;

Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare) state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~ Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston;

Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane;

4: Economic Life;

Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans;

The ‘distribution question’: the role of statistical analysis in measuring and evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley;

Labour market statistics ~ Paul Bivand;

The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden;

The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka;

Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David Walker;

5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being;

Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall;

Health Divides ~ Anonymous;

Measuring Social Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill;

Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson;

The Generation Game: Ending the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil Duncan-Jordan;

6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy;

Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane;

The Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~ Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson;

Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor;

Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa;

The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~ Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield;

Critical Statistical Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger;

Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;

What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~ Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru;



Book Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Johnston, Ron
Ron Johnston (1941-2020) was a Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol. Charles Pattie is a Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield.

Deeming, Christopher
Christopher Deeming is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, with research interests in the field of Comparative and Global Social Policy. His latest works with Policy Press are Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets: International and Comparative Policy Perspectives (2020) and Reframing Global Social Policy: Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (2019).

Evans, Jeff
Jeff Evans is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Middlesex University, UK. He researches the public understanding of statistics, and influences on adults’ mathematical learning.

Lansley, Stewart
Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His recent books include A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).

Ruane, Sally
Sally Ruane is Reader in Social Policy and the Director of the Health Policy Research Unit in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, UK.

Simpson, Ludi
Professor of Population Studies at the University of Manchester.

Byrne, David
David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. His work explores the consequences of the post-industrial transition and the implications of the complexity frame of reference for understanding the social world.

Southall, Humphrey
Humphrey Southall is Professor of Historical Geography at University of Portsmouth, UK, and directs the Great Britain Historical GIS. He researches the origins of Britain’s north-south divide and promotes public engagement with historical statistics.

Jeff Evans is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Middlesex University, UK. He researches the public understanding of statistics, and influences on adults’ mathematical learning.

Sally Ruane is Reader in Social Policy and the Director of the Health Policy Research Unit in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, UK.

Humphrey Southall is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and directs the Great Britain Historical GIS. He researches the origins of Britain’s north-south divide and promotes public engagement with historical statistics.