Although land surveys can be viewed as accomplishments of strong states, this paper shows that they are successful not because of state power, but because of two social factors, lay knowledge and the alignment of social interests. Land surveyance is a strategic research site because it is technologically and labor intensive, so it is difficult to complete. The paper uses historical methodologies of comparison and narrative to show that a national land survey was never completed in the case with the strong state, England/Great Britain/the United Kingdom, while such surveys were completed in the cases with the weak states, the United States and Italy. Where the surveys were completed, there was widespread social knowledge about them and support for surveyance.

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迈向土地测量知识社会学：社会和国家的影响

尽管土地调查可以看作是强国的成就，但本文表明，土地调查的成功不是因为国家权力，而是因为两个社会因素，即知识和社会利益的统一。土地测量是一项战略研究基地，因为它技术和劳动力密集，因此很难完成。本文使用比较和叙述的历史方法论来表明，在强国（英格兰/大不列颠/联合王国）的案例中，全国土地调查从未完成，而在弱国的案例中，国家土地调查未完成。美国和意大利。在完成调查的地方，有关于调查的广泛社会知识和对调查的支持。