1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society
Introduction, Anne K. Krüger and Thorsten Peetz
Part I: Theoretical perspectives
1. Classifications, the sacred, and moral individualism: Durkheimian perspectives on valuation, Frithjof Nungesser
2. Anthropological perspectives on value and valuation, Ton Otto
3. The rise of a French pragmatic sociology of values, Nathalie Heinich
4. On Science and Technology Studies and valuation, Malte Ziewitz
5. Relinquishing value: Aristotle and the substances of institutional practice, Roger Friedland
6. Value(s) and (e)valuation in sociological systems theories, Bettina Mahlert
7. The ‘new’ sociology of knowledge and the sociology of valuation, Stefan Nicolae
Part II: Central valuation practices in societal spheres
II. A. Economic valuation
8. Economic valuation, Patrik Aspers and Alexander Dobeson
9. Where the value is: Accounting and the spatialization of worth, Hendrik Vollmer, Per Ahblom, and Emilia Cederberg
10. Rethinking value through waste: About devaluation and society, Stefan Laser
II. B. Valuation in education and science
11. The panopticon of evaluation in educational organizations, Herbert Kalthoff and Kornelia Engert
12. Research on research evaluation: From particularism to synthesis, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner
13. Competition and valuation in science and higher education, Frank Meier
14. How evaluations fail: Investigating scientific misconduct, Felicitas Hesselmann
II. C. Valuation in arts and culture
15. Valuation practices in the visual arts, Michael Hutter
16. What is good music? Distinction and valuation in music worlds, Oliver Berli
17. What makes a book “good”? New perspectives on literary evaluation, Phillipa K. Chong and Gillian Gualtieri
Part III: Cross-cutting valuation practices
III. A. Valuation of human beings
18. Self-optimization, Anja Röcke
19. (A) Being worth it? Self-worth and self-(e)valuation within Valuation Studies, Sandra Matthäus
20. Social inequality: A neglected topic in studies of valuation and evaluation? Stefan Beljean and Julian Hamann
III. B. Digital valuation
21. Algorithms and valuation: In search of a means to get beyond opacity, Daniel Neyland and Sveta Milyaeva
22. Digital surveillance and valuation in datafied societies, Sachil Singh
23. Valuation and digital platforms, Jonathan Kropf and Thomas Frisch
24. The social logics of platform units: A brief history of valuation practices online, Johannes Paßmann
Part IV: Valuation and societal change
25. Economization: Valuation and the boundaries of valuation games, Thorsten Peetz
26. Risky values: Seeing risk through the lens of Valuation Studies, Natalia Besedovsky
27. Valuation and sustainability, Lisa Knoll
28. Datafied and (e)valuated: Datafication as driver of contingent (e)valuation, Karoline Krenn and Anne K. Krüger
29. The amateurization of valuation in the digital age, Désirée Waibel
30. Worlds of rankings research, Jelena Brankovic
Part V: Reflections
31. Reflections on the emergence of a research field: An interview with Michèle Lamont, Anne K. Krüger and Thorsten Peetz
Index
Biography
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.
