Socialization processes information seeking

There are various discretion-based procedural judgments and decisions that officers are called upon to make, such as whether a person s reasons for failing to attend a job interview are legitimate and preclude withdrawal of benefit. Complexity presents difficulties both for those who administer social security and for persons who may seek to establish entitlement to one or more of the benefits, and it also hinders the process of claiming benefits. Often a considerable amount of information will need to be supplied by the claimant when making a claim. 

In seeking to understand the emergence of PET, the concept of informed materials is far more incisive than notions of translation for establishing how economic calculability was established for this new plastic. This is because the molecular rearrangement of polyethylene terephthalate into the PET bottle produced rich new information about plastic that was not simply molecular, but also economic and social. While there is no question that R D processes at DuPont were seeking to make the material qualities of polyethylene terephthalate available for economic calculation in the beverages industry, the molecules of polyethylene terephthalate were already economically informed - they were already inscribed with information about plastic s diverse economic and social capacities. 

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