Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society

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.

• 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