Standards. We apply them, uphold them, or fail to meet them. But how do they get made? The Social Life of Standards reveals how these political and technical to
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
Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor ne
This book details the primary concepts of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), integration of social aspects in product life cycles, quantification of social i
The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing principle of institutions, history, and unequal interpersonal relations.