072 - Section on Economic Sociology Invited Session. Infrastructures of Valuation

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Over the last few years sociologists have placed greater interest in the cultures of valuation applied to countries, restaurants, wines,
disasters or academics (e.g. Fourcade, Thévenot & Boltanski; Lamont; Stark). This panel extends these discussions to the relationship between valuation and the institutional, cognitive and technological infrastructures that make possible these cultures of economization. Specifically, the panel will address these questions by focusing on how different infrastructures produce evaluative standards that enable distinct actors to interpret, handle, sort, and exchange different kinds of cultural objects within and across different social fields. In so doing, the panel aims to develop a more general discussion about the infrastructural dimensions underlying the production and reproduction of different forms of cultural/economic value.

Sub Unit

• Section on Economic Sociology

Session Organizer

• Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California, San Diego

Presider

• Frederick F. Wherry, Yale University

Panelists

• Fernando Dominguez-Rubio, University of California, San Diego

• Claudio Ezequiel Benzecry, Northwestern University

• Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut

• Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California, San Diego

Discussant

• Frederick F. Wherry, Yale University