Les normes ISO, entre soft law étendue et dessein biopolitique

Jérôme Lamy (), Philippe Schäfer () and Vincent Helfrich
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Jérôme Lamy: CESSP - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Philippe Schäfer: AHP-PReST - Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: ISO standards belong to the field of soft law and are imposed as voluntary standards. The article proposes a political sociology of their construction and implementation. The aim is to identify the regulatory plasticity that ISO standards allow: inscribed in a normative continuum, these soft laws give multiple intakes and broad acceptances. Their drafting format continuously works on this normative lability. Following the Foucauldian path of biopolitics and the potentiality of a pragmatic sociology attentive to information formats, the article concludes on the double political property of ISO standards: at the same time an attempt to cover the whole range of social practices and a rather loose power of constraint, precisely because of the extensive envelopment targeted.

Keywords: Standards; Biopolitics; Normes; ISO; Soft law; Information; Biopolitique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10-31
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Published in Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, 2021, 13, pp.49-60. ⟨10.4000/cdst.4187⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/cdst.4187

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