Book ID: CBB000951103

Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life (2009)

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Lampland, Martha (Editor)
Star, Susan Leigh (Editor)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xiii + 244 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Lynch, Michael (2011) Review of "Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 384). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Star, Susan Leigh; Lampland, Martha (2009) Reckoning with Standards. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Epstein, Steven G. (2009) Beyond the Standard Human?. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Treas, Judith (2009) Age in Standards and Standards for Age: Institutionalizing Chronological Age as Biographical Necessity. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Lengwiler, Martin (2009) Double Standards: The History of Standardizing Humans in Modern Life Insurance. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Lampland, Martha (2009) Classifying Laborers: Instinct, Property, and the Psychology of Productivity in Hungary (1920-1956). In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Millerand, Florence; Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2009) Metadata Standards: Trajectories and Enactment in the Life of an Ontolgy. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

Chapter Pargman, Daniel; Palme, Jacob (2009) ASCII Imperialism. In: Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Morris-Reich, Amos
Kershaw, Michael
J. E. Wolff
Miguel Ohnesorge
Jackson, Rebecca L.
Epstein, Jessica
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Spontaneous Generations
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Pickering & Chatto
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Standards and standardization
Measurement
Metric system
International System of Units (SI)
Exactness; precision; accuracy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
People
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Watt, James
Sitterly, Charlotte M.
Martin, Rudolph
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Joule, James Prescott
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Germany
United States
Polar regions
Canada
Bulgaria
Great Britain
Institutions
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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