Indexing of human and reality as a form of exercising power
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34767/PP.2016.02.16Keywords:
general pedagogy, actuarial practices, indexing, power, segmentation, reductionismAbstract
Gathering statistical data about population should be the starting point of social policy – as long as it is efficient and makes human life better. The aim of the article is discussing how human indexing and their categorizing in statistical table leads to reductionism in individual dimension (lack of individualism) and social dimension (depriving social phenomenon of meaning and context because indices presented as numerical value oversimplifies reality), manipulation of reality and government. Though indices are presented as objective
they are not neutral ideologically, because in their background is hidden particular vision of improvement.
Assumed vision of reality might be achieved by mechanism of comparing and valuating – what happens in science and education.
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