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Start Over Topic sociology Publication Year Range Last 50 years Journal social studies of science (sage publications, ltd.) Region canada Publisher sage publications, ltd.

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1. From the Moral Thermometer to Money: Metrological Reform in Pre-Confederation Canada

Author

Curtis, Bruce

Subjects
*POLITICAL development, *METROLOGY, *STATE formation, *HISTORICAL sociology, *SOCIOLOGY, *SOCIAL sciences
Abstract

The importance of infrastructural work for the mobility of practices and for the capacity of centers to act on distant sites is stressed in both science studies and the sociology of state formation. Employing Kula's typology of metrological systems, this paper examines four areas of metrological reform in pre-Confederation Canada, stressing the existence of metrological hybrids. Metrological standardization is held to depend upon the exercise of sovereign state power at the same time as it extends the administrative capacity of state agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1998
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