Society itself was historically constructed through calculability.

Evidence

The notion of “society” is not natural; it had to be constructed at a certain time and place. The nineteenth century’s (indeed, also the early twentieth century’s) construction of society emerged out of what Max Weber called “the peculiarity of modern culture, its calculability.” — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 372

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s broader theme of constructed social categories (cf. classed dressing, sacrifice as stabilizing construct). — connects to: Class functioned as the coding system through which society read itself — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 191; Scientific quantification of nature parallels society’s reduction of humans to abstract labor power. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 583; Systematizing the unsystematic can force a historical way of thinking — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 894 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Classical social theory defined modernity by the application of scientific rationality over tradition #corroborates (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 151
• Scientific quantification of nature parallels society’s reduction of humans to abstract labor power. #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 583
• Class functioned as the coding system through which society read itself #complicates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 191
• Systematizing the unsystematic can force a historical way of thinking #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 894