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The Social Life of Standards

Author : Janice E. Graham
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774865245
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Standards written by Janice E. Graham and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards. We apply them, uphold them, or fail to meet them. But how do they get made? Through twelve ethnographic case studies, The Social Life of Standards reveals how standards – political and technical tools for organizing society – are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with norms often created by others. Contributors explore standards at work across different countries and contexts, such as Ebola biomedical safety precautions in Senegal, Colombian farmers contesting politicized seed regulations, and the application of Indigenous standards to Canadian environmental assessments. They emphasize the uncomfortable fit between the inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world and the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. The Social Life of Standards provides support for a reflexive process that involves local engagement. Ultimately, the goal should be to reach a balance between evidence-based science and the social contexts that can inform more useful and appropriate standards.

Calculating the Social

Author : V. Higgins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289673
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Calculating the Social written by V. Higgins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.

Rationality Standards of Social Life

Author : Zbigniew Drozdowicz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903766
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Rationality Standards of Social Life written by Zbigniew Drozdowicz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standards of rationality are treated in this book as certain regulators of social life. They are compared to the rudders of the great vessels constituted by social communities. The diversity exhibited by those standards do not only result from the differences of time and space of their implementation, but also from the differences in the sets of ideas put forward by the leading social thinkers accompanied by the different characteristics of their designated audiences. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 7)

Standards and Their Stories

Author : Martha Lampland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474613
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Standards and Their Stories written by Martha Lampland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 procedures, regulating behaviors, and predicting results is rarely questioned. Indeed, the invisibility of infrastructure and the imperative of standardizing processes signify their absolute necessity. Increasingly, however, social scientists are beginning to examine the origins and effects of the standards that underpin the technology and practices of everyday life.Standards and Their Stories explores how we interact with the network of standards that shape our lives in ways both obvious and invisible. The main chapters analyze standardization in biomedical research, government bureaucracies, the insurance industry, labor markets, and computer technology, providing detailed accounts of the invention of "standard humans" for medical testing and life insurance actuarial tables, the imposition of chronological age as a biographical determinant, the accepted means of determining labor productivity, the creation of international standards for the preservation and access of metadata, and the global consequences of "ASCII imperialism" and the use of English as the lingua franca of the Internet.Accompanying these in-depth critiques are a series of examples that depict an almost infinite variety of standards, from the controversies surrounding the European Union's supposed regulation of banana curvature to the minimum health requirements for immigrants at Ellis Island, conflicting (and ever-increasing) food portion sizes, and the impact of standardized punishment metrics like "Three Strikes" laws. The volume begins with a pioneering essay from Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland on the nature of standards in everyday life that brings together strands from the several fields represented in the book. In an appendix, the editors provide a guide for teaching courses in this emerging interdisciplinary field, which they term "infrastructure studies," making Standards and Their Stories ideal for scholars, students, and those curious about why coffins are becoming wider, for instance, or why the Financial Accounting Standards Board refused to classify September 11 as an "extraordinary" event.

The Social Life of Books

Author : Abigail Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228104
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Books written by Abigail Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post

The Social Life of Scriptures

Author : James Bielo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548411
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Scriptures written by James Bielo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historical case studies, covering a range of geographic, theological, and cultural territory, including: American evangelicals and charismatics; Jamaican Rastafarians; evangelical and Catholic Mayans; Northern Irish charismatics; Nigerian Anglicans; and Chinese evangelicals in the United States. The Social Life of Scriptures is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. Moreover, it models an important movement to outline a framework for how scriptures are implicated in organizing social structures and meanings, with specific foci on gender, ethnicity, agency, and power.

Norms and the Study of Language in Social Life

Author : Janus Mortensen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511882
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Norms and the Study of Language in Social Life written by Janus Mortensen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociolinguistics and the social sciences more generally tend to take an interest in norms as central to social life. The importance of norms is easily discernible in the sociolinguistic canon, for instance in Labov’s definition of the speech community as ‘participation in a set of shared norms’ and Hymes’ concepts of ‘norms of interaction’ and ‘norms of interpretation’. Yet, while the notion of norms may play a central role in sociolinguistic theory, there is little explicit theoretical work around the notion of norms itself within the discipline. Instead, norms tend to be treated as conceptual primes – convenient building blocks, ready-made for sociolinguistic theorizing – rather than theoretical constructs in need of reflexive attention. The aim of this book is to assess and advance current understandings of norms as a theoretical construct and empirical object of research in the study of language in social life. The contributors approach the topic from a range of complementary disciplinary perspectives, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, EM/CA, socio-cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to provide a multifaceted view of norms as a central concept in the study of language in social life.

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230302203
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Challenges in the Social Life of Language written by John Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do with the twin issues of power and identity . Important evidence and illustrations bearing upon these matters are provided and supplemented by an extensive bibliography.

Citizenship Education in China

Author : Kerry J. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136022163
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship Education in China written by Kerry J. Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West. Liberal political theorists often assume that only in democracy should citizens be prepared for their future responsibilities, yet citizenship education in China has undergone a number of transformations as the political system has sought to cope with market reforms, globalization and pressures both externally and within the country for broader political reforms. Over the past decade, Chinese scholars have been struggling for official recognition of citizenship education as a key component of the school curriculum in these changing contexts. This book analyzes the citizenship education issues under discussion within China, and aims to provide a voice for its scholars at a time when China’s international role is becoming increasingly important.

The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption

Author : Magnus Boström
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666902454
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption written by Magnus Boström and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption draws on a variety of theories and research to contribute to our understanding of unsustainable mass consumption. It addresses the role of identities, social relations, interactions, belonging, and status comparison, and how perceived time scarcity is both a cause and an effect of consumption. It examines the power of consumer norms and how overconsumption is normalized and shows how consumption is embedded in the time-space arrangements of everyday life. Magnus Boström contextualizes such drivers within the larger institutional and infrastructural forces underlying mass consumption, including the economy, growth politics, and the problematic promises of consumer culture. Boström further draws on lessons from lived experiments of consuming less and discuss how insights about the flaws of consumer culture can help shape a growing critique and countermovement – a collective detox from consumerism.

An Introduction to Social Psychology

Author : Charles Abram Ellwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Social Psychology written by Charles Abram Ellwood and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136237151
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society written by Daniel Lee Kleinman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for the consideration of the place of science and technology in the world, past and present. The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by presenting work that pushes the reader to think about science and technology and their intersections with social life in new ways. The interdisciplinary contributions by international experts in this handbook are organized around six topic areas: embodiment consuming technoscience digitization environments science as work rules and standards This volume highlights a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to some of the persistent – and new – questions in the field. It will be useful for students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities, including in science and technology studies, history, geography, critical race studies, sociology, communications, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, and political science.

Exchange and Power in Social Life

Author : Peter Blau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351521195
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Exchange and Power in Social Life written by Peter Blau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his landmark study of exchange and power in social life, Peter M. Blau contributes to an understanding of social structure by analyzing the social processes that govern the relations between individuals and groups. The basic question that Blau considers is: How does social life become organized into increasingly complex structures of associations among humans.This analysis, first published in 1964, represents a pioneering contribution to the sociological literature. Blau uses concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones. The principles of reciprocity and imbalance are used to derive such processes as power, changes in group structure; and the two major forces that govern the dynamics of complex social structures: the legitimization of organizing authority of increasing scope and the emergence of oppositions along different lines producing conflict and change.

The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society

Author : K. M. Borman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317738101
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society written by K. M. Borman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book developed from a symposium in which participants examined childhood socialization from a number of perspectives and with several disciplinary lenses. The major purpose of the symposium and thus of this volume is to provide an integrative, multidisciplinary discussion of the social development of preschool and young elementary school-aged children. As a result, there are contributions to this volume from anthropologists (Leacock, Ogbu), psychologists (Lippincott, Mueller, Ramey and Snow), sociologists (Borman, Denzin) and scholars who have self-consciously adopted an interdisciplinary framework. First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Developmental Dynamics and Transitions in High School

Author : Sofie Pedersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350141747
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Developmental Dynamics and Transitions in High School written by Sofie Pedersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about young people and their transitions throughout their first year of high school, deepening our understanding of how it is to be young and enter new institutional settings, and how to understand the developmental dynamics of youth life. It explores the everyday life of six young people as they enter high school and follows them closely as they encounter and try to make sense of the different standards, values, and demands that are built into the institutional setting of high school. The chapters explore the entanglements of personal motive orientation, interpersonal dynamics, institutional values and demands, as well as societal standards, and how subtle negotiations of who one is and ought to be are interwoven into the fabrics of everyday life. Hence the book explores variations on an institutional level – as different high school environments – along with variations on an interpersonal level, insisting on a person-environment reciprocity in the study of development. Using cultural-historical activity theory and ecological psychology derived from theorists including Bang, Barker & Wright, Gibson, Lewin, Hedegaard, Ilyenkov, Stetsenko, and Vygotsky, Sofie Pedersen argues that developmental dynamics among young people cannot be reduced to individual nor social processes alone but are connected to institutional conditions and to concrete places. By insisting on a wholeness approach to the understanding of youth development, Pedersen reveals the developmental dynamics that unfold in the everyday lives of young people, and sheds new light on youth life dynamics, including the challenges that young people face.

Value Theory

Author : Deshun Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642256171
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Value Theory written by Deshun Li and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humankind’s progress has always been driven by two momentums: the pursuit of truth and the creation of value. But our understanding of value, and our ability to reflect on its complexity, has long lagged behind our constant search for truth. This has, in turn limited our grasp of the essence of truth. This book takes philosophical contemplations on value to a new level, while also explicating some contemporary Chinese styles of philosophical thought. Over the past 25 years, this book has been having an increasing impact on Chinese readers and researchers, and it also provides a good platform for international dialogue on several key issues of philosophical studies.

Reshaping Social Life

Author : Sarah Irwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415339377
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Reshaping Social Life written by Sarah Irwin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.