TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lampland,Martha
AU  - Star,Susan Leigh
TI  - Standards and their stories : how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life 
SN  - 9780801474613
U1  - 389.6 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ithaca 
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Standardization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Classification
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index; 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
ER  -