Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Susan Leigh Star, Martha Lampland

Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life

Susan Leigh Star, Martha Lampland

264 pages

3 editions

nonfiction business economics technology informative medium-paced
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Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining proc...

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