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Standards and their stories : how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life / edited by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Description: xiii, 244 s. ill. 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780801474613
  • 0801474612
  • 0801447178
  • 9780801447174
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 389.6 22
Contents:
Reckoning with standards / Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland -- Beyond the standard human? / Steven Epstein -- Age in standards and standards for age : institutionalizing chronological age as biographical necessity / Judith Treas -- Double standards : the history of standardizing humans in modern life insurance / Martin Lengwiler -- Classifying laborers : instinct, property, and the psychology of productivity in Hungary (1920-1956) / Martha Lampland -- Metadata standards : trajectories and enactment in the life of an ontolgy / Florence Millerand and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- ASCII imperialism / Daniel Pargman and Jacob Palme
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Reckoning with standards / Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland -- Beyond the standard human? / Steven Epstein -- Age in standards and standards for age : institutionalizing chronological age as biographical necessity / Judith Treas -- Double standards : the history of standardizing humans in modern life insurance / Martin Lengwiler -- Classifying laborers : instinct, property, and the psychology of productivity in Hungary (1920-1956) / Martha Lampland -- Metadata standards : trajectories and enactment in the life of an ontolgy / Florence Millerand and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- ASCII imperialism / Daniel Pargman and Jacob Palme