The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Krüger, Anne; Schaefer, Hilmar; Peetz, Thorsten

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interest in the ubiquity of the valuation practices and its effects on social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040109724
• Artikelnr.: 72280689

Autorenporträt

Anne K. Krüger is head of the research group "Reorganization of knowledge practices" at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Germany. Thorsten Peetz is Interim Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Bamberg, Germany. Hilmar Schäfer was Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Theoretical perspectives
1. Classifications, the sacred, and moral individualism: Durkheimian
perspectives on valuation
2. Anthropological perspectives on value and valuation
3. The rise of a French pragmatic sociology of values
4. On Science and Technology Studies and valuation
5. Relinquishing value: Aristotle and the substances of institutional
practice
6. Value(s) and (e)valuation in sociological systems theories
7. The 'new' sociology of knowledge and the sociology of valuation
Part II: Central valuation practices in societal spheres
II. A. Economic valuation
8. Economic valuation
9. Where the value is: Accounting and the spatialization of worth
10. Rethinking value through waste: About devaluation and society
II. B. Valuation in education and science
11. The panopticon of evaluation in educational organizations
12. Research on research evaluation: From particularism to synthesis
13. Competition and valuation in science and higher education
14. How evaluations fail: Investigating scientific misconduct
II. C. Valuation in arts and culture
15. Valuation practices in the visual arts
16. What is good music? Distinction and valuation in music worlds
17. What makes a book "good"? New perspectives on literary evaluation
Part III: Cross-cutting valuation practices
III. A. Valuation of human beings
18. Self-optimization
19. (A) Being worth it? Self-worth and self-(e)valuation within Valuation
Studies
20. Social inequality: A neglected topic in studies of valuation and
evaluation?
III. B. Digital valuation
21. Algorithms and valuation: In search of a means to get beyond opacity
22. Digital surveillance and valuation in datafied societies
23. Valuation and digital platforms
24. The social logics of platform units: A brief history of valuation
practices online
Part IV: Valuation and societal change
25. Economization: Valuation and the boundaries of valuation games
26. Risky values: Seeing risk through the lens of Valuation Studies
27. Valuation and sustainability
28. Datafied and (e)valuated: Datafication as driver of contingent
(e)valuation
29. The amateurization of valuation in the digital age
30. Worlds of rankings research
Part V: Reflections
31. Reflections on the emergence of a research field: An interview with
Michèle Lamont
Index