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.
9780801474613
40016327958
2008029675
Standardization--Social aspects.
Measurement--Social aspects.
Classification--Social aspects.
389.6 / ST-
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.
9780801474613
40016327958
2008029675
Standardization--Social aspects.
Measurement--Social aspects.
Classification--Social aspects.
389.6 / ST-