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

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

Susan Leigh Star

264 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-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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