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Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvAnne Krüger,Thorsten Peetz,Hilmar Schaefer

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The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society, providing an up-to-date overview of the different facets of research in the sociology of valuation.The handbook is divided into five major sections with attention to the treatment of valuation in major areas of sociological theory, as well as its key concepts, discourses, and approaches:Part I: Theoretical perspectivesPart II: Central valuation practices in societal spheresPart III: Cross-cutting valuation practicesPart IV: Valuation and societal changePart V: ReflectionsTogether, the chapters in this book characterize distinctive practices of valuation across different societal spheres, such as education and science, arts and culture, economic life, the environment or digital culture and social media. They also examine the role of valuation in contemporary society and consider the ways it effects social change.This seminal handbook aims at taking stock of the development of the study of valuation with a selection of topics that are important for understanding core perspectives and developments as well as anticipating its future orientation. 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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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-22
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
Vikt720 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge International Handbooks
Antal sidor372
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032134697

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Introduction Part I: Theoretical perspectives 1. Classifications, the sacred, and moral individualism: Durkheimian perspectives on valuation2. Anthropological perspectives on value and valuation3. The rise of a French pragmatic sociology of values4. On Science and Technology Studies and valuation5. Relinquishing value: Aristotle and the substances of institutional practice6. Value(s) and (e)valuation in sociological systems theories7. The ‘new’ sociology of knowledge and the sociology of valuationPart II: Central valuation practices in societal spheres II. A. Economic valuation 8. Economic valuation9. Where the value is: Accounting and the spatialization of worth 10. Rethinking value through waste: About devaluation and societyII. B. Valuation in education and science 11. The panopticon of evaluation in educational organizations12. Research on research evaluation: From particularism to synthesis 13. Competition and valuation in science and higher education14. How evaluations fail: Investigating scientific misconductII. C. Valuation in arts and culture 15. Valuation practices in the visual arts16. What is good music? Distinction and valuation in music worlds17. What makes a book “good”? New perspectives on literary evaluationPart III: Cross-cutting valuation practices III. A. Valuation of human beings 18. Self-optimization19. (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 platforms24. The social logics of platform units: A brief history of valuation practices onlinePart IV: Valuation and societal change 25. Economization: Valuation and the boundaries of valuation games26. Risky values: Seeing risk through the lens of Valuation Studies27. Valuation and sustainability28. Datafied and (e)valuated: Datafication as driver of contingent (e)valuation 29. The amateurization of valuation in the digital age30. Worlds of rankings researchPart V: Reflections 31. Reflections on the emergence of a research field: An interview with Michèle LamontIndex