Standards and their stories how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life

Standards and their stories how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life - Ithaca Cornell University Press 2009 - xiii,244p. ill. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index.

Reckoning with Standards / Beyond the Standard Human? / Age in Standards and Standards for Age: Institutionalizing Chronological Age as Biographical Necessity / Double Standards: The History of Standardizing Humans in Modern Life Insurance / Classifying Laborers: Instinct, Property, and the Psychology of Productivity in Hungary (1920-1956) / Metadata Standards: Trajectories and Enactment in the Life of an Ontology / ASCII Imperialism / Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland -- Steven Epstein -- Judith Treas -- Martin Lengwiler -- Martha Lampland -- Florence Miller and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- DanielPargman and Jacob Palme. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Standardization--Social aspects.
Measurement--Social aspects.
Classification--Social aspects.

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