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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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Handbook of Economic Sociology
Neil J. Smelser,Richard Swedberg +1 more
TL;DR: The Handbook of Economic Sociology as discussed by the authors is a collection of sociologists, economists, and political scientists from the field of economic sociology with a focus on how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by values and norms.
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The Civilizing Process
TL;DR: In this paper, the sociogenesis of the concepts "civilization" and "culture" and the development of the concept of "civilite" are discussed. But the focus of the article is not on the social evolution of human behaviour, but rather on the evolution of social relations between the sexes.
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The Making of the English Working Class
R. Currie,R. M. Hartwell +1 more
TL;DR: The main controversialists in the standard-of-living debate have come from the fringes of the established academic world, from areas remote from agreed courses and acceptable topics; their work, criticized as polemical, is certainly spirited, even aggressive as discussed by the authors.
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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Commodity chains and global capitalism
TL;DR: Gereffi et al. as discussed by the authors studied the historical and spatial patterns of Commodity Chains in the world-system prior to 1800 and concluded that the global distribution of commodity chains is a global distribution.
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