Standards: recipes for reality

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This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also explores how standards are intimately connected to power, empowering some but disempowering others.

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Full title :Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.

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Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262298735, 0262298732, 9780262297851, 026229785X, 1283302829, 9781283302821, 9780262525053, 0262525054
oclc:ocn760884537
LC Classification:HD62
Dewey Decimal:389/.6

The power of standards -- Standardizing the world -- From standardization to standardized differentiation -- Certified, accredited, licensed, approved -- Standards, ethics, and justice -- Standards and democracy -- Conclusions : another road to serfdom?

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Accreditatie Ethische aspecten Kwaliteitszorg Norm Normalisation Normalisation -- Aspect social SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General Sociale aspecten Standaardisatie Standardisierung Standardization Standardization -- Social aspects TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Measurement