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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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Uma abordagem sociológica das certificações: o caso do selo de aprovação sbc
TL;DR: In this paper, a pesquisa envolveu entrevistas, analise de material do selo e da legislacao brasileira sobre alimentos, and como estudo de caso o selo de aprovacao concedido pela Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC).
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Kosher Biotech: Between Religion, Regulation, and Globalization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an ethnography of how transnational governmentality warrants a product as "kosher" and thereby helps to format and standardize the market, using fieldwork conducted at the world's largest producer of enzymes.
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‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital
TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of a recent Mycoplasma bovis outbreak on affected farms in southern New Zealand through the lenses of moral economy and moral capital and found that livestock strongly embody these forms of moral capital in the farming moral economy because animals require care in order to survive and thrive.
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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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