Put to the Test: the Sociology of Testing
Put to the Test: The Sociology of Testing
The Special Issue of the British Journal of Sociology has now been published online. Put to the Test - The Sociology of Testing is edited by CIM Academics Noortje Marres and David Stark.
The Special Issue investigates the changing and expanding role of testing in contemporary society, politics, economy and everyday life, through empirical studies of testing in society - from pregnancy testing to citizen tests by immigration agencies, social credit experiments in China and randomized controlled trials of development - and brings together leading international sociologists and scholars in science and technology studies (STS).
In their introductory essay, the editors discuss why we need a new sociology of testing. For longer video content in which the contributors make links between the themes of the articles and the Coronavirus pandemic, please see the Blindspot website.
British Journal of Sociology, Volume 71, Issue 3
Table of Contents
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Noortje Marres David Stark |
Preface to a special issue on the sociology of testing |
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Noortje Marres David Stark |
For A New Sociology of Testing |
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Luciana de Souza Leão |
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Joan Robinson |
What the pregnancy test is testing | |
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Janet Vertesi |
Institutions tested in an era of uncertainty |
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Jonathan Bach |
China's social credit experiment as a total test environment |
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Martín Tironi |
Exploring the political effects of design testing in urban space |
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Nathan Coombs |
Experimentation, demonstration, and the sociotechnical performance of regulatory science |
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Noortje Marres |
Co-existence or displacement: Do street trials of intelligent vehicles test society? |
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Willem Schinkel |
State work and the testing contours of citizenship | |
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Giovanni Formilan David Stark |
Name-altering practices as probes in electronic music |
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David Stark |
David Stark introduces "Put to the Test" |
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David Stark |
Have you been tested? Silent lecture to accompany "Put to the Test" |