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Marres, Noortje and Stark, David (2020) Put to the test : for a new sociology of testing. British Journal of Sociology, 71 (3). pp. 423-443. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12746 ISSN 0007-1315.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12746
Abstract
In an age defined by computational innovation, testing seems to have become ubiquitous, and tests are routinely deployed as a form of governance, a marketing device, an instrument for political intervention, and an everyday practice to evaluate the self. This essay argues that something more radical is happening here than simply attempts to move tests from the laboratory into social settings. The challenge that a new sociology of testing must address is that ubiquitous testing changes the relations between science, engineering, and sociology: Engineering is today in the very stuff of where society happens. It is not that the tests of 21st‐century engineering occur within a social context but that it is the very fabric of the social that is being put to the test. To understand how testing and the social relate today, we must investigate how testing operates on social life, through the modification of its settings. One way to clarify the difference is to say that the new forms of testing can be captured neither within the logic of the field test nor of the controlled experiment. Whereas tests once happened inside social environments, today’s tests directly and deliberately modify the social environment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Sociology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0007-1315 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 71 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 423-443 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-4446.12746 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Description: | Special Issue 'Put to the Test: the Sociology of Testing,' Marres, N and D Stark (Eds) |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 April 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 May 2020 | ||||||||
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