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SBE 2020: Submission Detail
| ID Number: |
90 |
| Title: |
Understanding Standards |
| Lead Author: |
Busch, Lawrence |
| Abstract: |
We live in a world in which we are surrounded by standards for people, processes, practices, and products. These standards structure the sociotechnical world as well as the behavior of people in a variety of ways. Moreover, if successful, they tend to become taken-for-granted, so much so that they escape notice of both the general public and SBE scientists. Standards may be best understood as means of governance that fall (largely) somewhere between laws and social norms. Standards are often codified as texts, or embodied in physical objects. Yet, relatively little SBE research has been done on standards. This brief paper suggests some ways in which this oversight might be rectified. |
| PDF: |
Busch_Lawrence_90.pdf |
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