This chapter considers how incommensurable artefacts and actors are brought together, the relationships between them standardized, so that they can be compared in the same space. This issue described here as the labour of comparison is beginning to attract attention from scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Economic Sociology, Organization Studies and beyond. Some have gone as far as to conceptualize the economy in a way that comparison is central to its organization (Callon et al.,

First Author: Higgins, Vaughan; Larner, Wendy

Attributed to: The Social Study of the Information Technology Marketplace: The Role of Industry Analysts in Constituting the Technological Field funded by ESRC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing (2010)

ISBN: 9780230579316