Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life

Carr, E. Summerson

ISBN 10: 0520291794 / ISBN 13: 9780520291799

Published by University of California Press, 2016

How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This is about practical labor of scale-making and more. Editor(s): Carr, E. Summerson; Lempert, Michael. Num Pages: 276 pages, 9 color photographs, 6 b/w illustrations, 6 color graphs, 5 line drawings, 8 tab. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780520291799

Synopsis:

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Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global,micro and macroevents to name a few. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place.
 
How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective, the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime.
 

About the Author: E. Summerson Carr is Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Michael Lempert is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social ...
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New