Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life (Cornell Paperbacks) - Hardcover

 
9780801447174: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life (Cornell Paperbacks)
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ISBN 10: 0801447178 ISBN 13: 9780801447174
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining procedures, regulating behaviors, and predicting results is rarely questioned. Indeed, the invisibility of infrastructure and the imperative of standardizing processes signify their absolute necessity. Increasingly, however, social scientists are beginning

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About the Author

Martha Lampland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Object of Labor and coeditor of Altering States. Susan Leigh Star is Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University. She is the author of books including Sorting Things Out and editor of The Cultures of Computing.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801447178
ISBN 13 
9780801447174
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
264
Editor
Lampland Martha, Star Susan Leigh

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