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Author:   Anne Krüger (Weizenbaum Institute, Germany) ,  Thorsten Peetz (University of Bamberg, Germany) ,  Hilmar Schaefer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.880kg
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9781032115627

ISBN 10:   1032115629
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   15 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 STS 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

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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.

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