Standards and their stories : how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life /
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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| 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.