Sociology is inherently reflexive. It deals with actors who themselves are constantly engaged in sociological reasoning. Concepts from academic sociology are thus prone to enter and affect the very dynamics they describe. The sociology of quantification is particularly attuned to such paradoxical effects of “reactivity,” that is, measurements and categories altering observed realities. The article builds on these insights but extends them by adding one more iteration of reflexivity. Examining administrative integration departments in Germany that have implemented statistical indicators for measuring immigrant incorporation, it attends to a case where bureaucrats are themselves anticipating “reactivity” of the measurements they use. Integration officers fear that integration indicators may inadvertently reify and stigmatize the statistical category of first‐ to third‐generation immigrants, or “persons with a migration background.” Consequently, they engage in various counterstrategies to offset such effects. Most notably, they launch a counter‐campaign against negative connotations of migration background that their own measurements are reinforcing as they frame migration background as an asset for society. The article argues that this is an example of second‐order reactivity, a phenomenon as yet neglected in the literature: Officers alter reality in reaction to an anticipated reactivity of their own integration statistics.

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措施及其对策：量化移民整合中的自反性和二阶反应性

社会学本质上是自反的。它涉及那些本身一直从事社会学推理的演员。因此，来自学术社会学的概念很容易进入并影响它们所描述的动态。量化的社会学特别适合于“反应性”的这种悖论效应，即测量和类别改变了观察到的现实。本文基于这些见解，但通过添加更多的自反性迭代来扩展它们。检查德国实施了统计指标以衡量移民人数的行政管理集成部门，该案例涉及官僚们自己预期他们使用的衡量标准的“反应性”。融合官员担心，融合指标可能会无意间对第一代至第三代移民或“具有移民背景的人”的统计类别进行分类和污名化。因此，它们采取各种对策来抵消这种影响。最值得注意的是，他们发起了针对移徙背景的负面含义的反运动，因为他们将移徙背景作为对社会的资产加以构架，因此他们自己的测量方法正在得到加强。该文章认为这是二阶反应性的一个例子，这种现象在文献中还没有被忽略：军官根据他们自己的综合统计数据的预期反应性改变了现实。他们采取各种对策来抵消这种影响。最值得注意的是，他们发起了针对移徙背景的负面含义的反运动，因为他们将移徙背景作为对社会的资产加以构架，因此他们自己的测量方法正在得到加强。该文章认为这是二阶反应性的一个例子，这种现象在文献中还没有被忽略：军官根据他们自己的综合统计数据的预期反应性改变了现实。他们采取各种对策来抵消这种影响。最值得注意的是，他们发起了针对移徙背景的负面涵义的反运动，因为他们将移徙背景作为社会的财富来衡量时，自己的衡量标准正在得到加强。该文章认为这是二阶反应性的一个例子，这种现象在文献中还没有被忽略：军官对他们自己的集成统计数据的预期反应性做出反应而改变了现实。