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      Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology

      This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.

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      Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology

      This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.

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      Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty

      Susan Leigh Star

      What is the relationship between scientific work and scientific theories? Are facts discovered or constructed? This book aims to answer these questions in a novel manner.

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      Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life

      Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may…

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      Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life

      Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may…

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      Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

      Geoffrey C. Bowker,Susan Leigh Star

      Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world.

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      Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide

      This book addresses the question of how to bridge what has been termed the great divide between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported…

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      Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide

      This book addresses the question of how to bridge what has been termed the great divide between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported…

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