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The moral economy of grades and standards
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In this article, it is argued that grades and standards are part of the moral economy of the modern world, and that they both set norms for behavior and standardize (create uniformity).About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2000-07-01. It has received 313 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Generally Accepted Auditing Standards & Standardization.read more
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Setting science-based international food standards :defining dietary fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission
TL;DR: The thesis concludes that, in this case-study, on-going scientific controversy does not prevent the agreement of a food standard despite food standards being 'science-based' if the standard in question can be negotiated as a boundary object.
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Nature’s Market?: A Review of Organic Certification
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the theoretical foundations, methodologies and modes of inquiry that have guided studies of organic agriculture and certifi cation, and provide a rough critical review of the literature and the author's extensive work with organic smallholders in northern India.
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Governing and Governance in the Agri-Food Sector and Traceability
TL;DR: In this article, food governance is depicted as a dynamic process, both occurring across and involving actors from the public sector, the corporate sector and civil society, which can result in new governance forms for agrifood standards.
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“The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Blueville Way”: Standards and Cultural Match in the Police Organization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how actors within an organization draw meaning from their local setting in ways that ultimately hinder institutional efforts toward standardization, and use a case study to examine the role of actors in this process.
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The Shifting Landscape of Amish Agriculture: Balancing Tradition and Innovation in an Organic Farming Cooperative
TL;DR: The adoption of certified organic among the Amish is a pragmatic decision that stems from concerns over the sociocultural effects of losing their agrarian heritage, but it also raises challenges that require a careful balance between market imperatives and cultural traditions.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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We Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society
TL;DR: In this article, the quandary of the fact-builder is explored in the context of science and technology in a laboratory setting, and the model of diffusion versus translation is discussed.
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Capitalism and Freedom
TL;DR: In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom as mentioned in this paper.
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