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- Title
STANDARDISATION AND SOCIAL ORDERING: A change of perspective.
- Authors
SCHYFTER, PABLO
- Abstract
This article examines standardisation in synthetic biology as a form of social coordination and ordering. I discuss standardisation by exploring what makes standards possible, and offer an understanding based on infrastructures: technical and social systems that support the existence and operation of accepted standards. By exploring the role of social infrastructures, I contend that standards depend upon social ordering: ways of arranging people in particular positions, relations, and hierarchies. I suggest that synthetic biologists ought to develop an awareness of these social orders, take responsibility for their creation, and accept accountability for their consequences, both technical and social.
- Subjects
SYNTHETIC biology; SOCIAL order; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); BIOLOGISTS; STANDARDIZATION
- Publication
Mètode Science Studies Journal, 2021, Issue 11, p83
- ISSN
2171-911X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/metode.11.16013