Scale —— Discourse And Dimensions Of Social Life

----- 规模：社会生活的话语和维度

ISBN: 9780520291799 出版年：2016 页码：277 E Summerson Carr michael Lempert University of California Press

A free ebook version of this title is available through luminos, university of california press' new open access publishing program. Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macroevents to name a few. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place. How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? what do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? how are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? this pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires.