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

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TextPublication details: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2009Description: xiii,244p. ill. 25 cmISBN:

9780801474613

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389.6 22 ST-

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

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	389.6 ST- (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		118901

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

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