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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lampland, Martha, 1952-, Star, Susan Leigh, 1954-2010
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Cornell paperbacks
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Table of 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.