Patrik Aspers

Uncertainty (eBook, ePUB)

Individual Problems and Public Solutions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Examining what people can and in fact do to reduce uncertainty, Aspers addresses the existential dimension of uncertainty, the collective efforts and socially produced outcomes that lead to reduced uncertainty, and the social order that results.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197752777
• Artikelnr.: 72268656

Autorenporträt

Patrik Aspers is Chair of Sociology at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on theory development. Aspers has studied the economy, especially the fashion industry. He has published several books, including Markets in Fashion: A Phenomenological Approach, Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets, Markets, and Re-Imagining Economic Sociology, co-edited with Nigel Dodd.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: How Much Can We Know?
Part I Principles of States of the World
Chapter 2: Informal Institutions
Chapter 3: Formal Institutions
Chapter 4: Evaluation
Part II: Forms Producing States of the World
Chapter 5: Convaluation
Chapter 6: Deciding for Others
Chapter 7: Contest
Chapter 8: Making and Reducing Uncertainty
Appendix I. A Typology of Convaluations
Notes
References