Archaeology of a Quantification Device: Quantification, Policies and Politics in French Higher Education

Corine Eyraud ()
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Corine Eyraud: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Abstract This paper follows a quantification device – French higher education performance indicators – from its birth through its construction to its uses. It differentiates three levels of analysis. First, the bedrock level: a calculative device is grounded in a founding vision. Second, the intermediate level: a quantification device contains a conception of the "raisons d'être" of the entity that is quantified. Third, the level of the micro-conventions of calculation which can give a particular orientation. However, the device is part of a larger configuration which constitutes the fourth dimension of our analytical grid. Levels and context are the fruit of socio-historical processes which can, but must not, lead to maximum coherence. Here, the device is not a very integrated assemblage, which explains its limited effects.

Date: 2022-10-12
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Published in The New Politics of Numbers, Springer International Publishing, pp.275-303, 2022, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6_9⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78201-6_9

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