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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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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
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Theory of business enterprise
TL;DR: Veblen's analysis of the U.S. economy has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs as mentioned in this paper, but it has enduring value today.
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Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
Stefano Ponte,Peter Gibbon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that global value chains are becoming increasingly "buyer-driven" even though they are characterized by "hands-off" forms of co-ordination between "lead firms" and their immediate suppliers.
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The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
TL;DR: The central unifying theme in the Manuscripts is the alienation of labour under capitalist conditions of private ownership and its transcendence and abolition under communism as discussed by the authors, which is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature.
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A World of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization *
TL;DR: Reviewing the relevance of standards and standardization in diverse theoretical traditions and sociological subfields, it is called for careful empirical analysis of the specific and unintended consequences of different sorts of standards operating in distinct social domains.
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"Testing - One, Two, Three ... Testing!": Toward a Sociology of Testing
TL;DR: In this article, a generalizable analysis of testing in terms of a notion of projection is presented, with examples of testing a clinical budgeting system in the United Kingdom National Health Service and the testing of the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger.
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Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture
TL;DR: In this article, the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture are presented, drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender.
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Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies.
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How to Study the Force of Science
Michel Callon,John Law,Arie Rip +2 more
TL;DR: The way in which science and technology are created and deployed is obscured by the wide range of ways in which this can occur, and by the myth-making that surrounds the whole process as discussed by the authors.
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Finalization in science
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume that the self-examination called forth within science by the impact of these problems both reveals and promotes a fundamental change in the orientation of science towards economic, military and infrastructural goals.
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