Calculating the Social (PDF)

CARMEN BAIN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University, USA
CHRIS COCKLIN is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
MITCHELL DEAN is Professor of Sociology and formerly Dean of the Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia
JACQUI DIBDEN is a Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Regional Australia Project, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia
ANNI DUGDALE is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Canberra, Australia
MELANIE FEAKINS is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, USA
LAURIE GREALISH is Associate Professor in nursing at the University of Canberra, Australia
MAKI HATANAKA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Utah State University, USA
PAUL HENMAN is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Queensland, Australia
LIISA KURUNMÄKI is a Reader in Accounting, and a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
MIKE MICHAEL is Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, at the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
PETER MILLER is Professor of Management Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, UK
CARLOS NOVAS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Canada
TED O'LEARY is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA
NEIL POLLOCK is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches and researches on the sociology of information

'This excellent collection of essays gets beneath the surface of the 'world of standards' which we inhabit. At the point of their enactment and materialization in checklists, registers, accounting statements and questionnaires, standards are necessarily enmeshed in complex local webs of action and reaction. Each contribution shows how standards and the forms of calculation which they engender are always incomplete yet powerful projects of social and economic organization'. - Professor Michael Power, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK