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595 - Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Invited Session. Valuation Devices: STS Approaches to the Sociology of Worth
Tue, August 19, 2:30 to 4:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session
Abstract
In such politically fraught and technically mediated arenas as health, the environment, education, and finance, we find intensive struggles over the worth of things. Tools such as environmental impact assessment, performance review, and cost-benefit analysis seek to objectively measure values but often become objects of controversy. This panel will explore emerging directions in the social analysis of valuation processes, with an emphasis on the place of knowledge, expertise, and technologies.
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Stop it. Why Resisting Rankings has Failed and Why Evaluation Measures can be Hard to Tame - Wendy Nelson Espeland, Northwestern University
The Type and the Grade: Wine Classifications and the Institutional Scaffolding of the Judgment of Taste - Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley; Rebecca Elliott, University of California-Berkeley; Olivier Jacquet, Université de Bourgogne
Capturing Worlds of Worth: Fiction Reviewing, Management Consulting and Scholarly Evaluation Compared - Michele Lamont, Harvard University; Phillipa K Chong, Harvard University; Alaric Bourgoin, Center for the Sociology of Innovation
My Top Ten List of Valuation Devices - David Stark, Columbia University