Measure and value / edited by Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury.
"Explores how issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life Debates the restructuring of time, scale, number, pattern and sequence Investigates the changing...
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub./The Sociology Review,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: special measures / Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury
- A flank movement in the understanding of valuation / Fabian Muniesa
- General sentiment: how value and affect converge in the information economy / Adam Arvidsson
- The changing lives of measures and values: from centre stage in the fading 'disciplinary' society to pervaisive background instrument in the emergent 'control' society / Helen Verran
- Transactional politics / Evelyn Ruppert and Mike Savage
- Dirty data: longitudinal classification systems / Emma Uprichard
- The economy of social data: exploring research ethics as device / Ana Gross
- Measuring the value of sociology? Some notes on performative metricization in the contemporary academy / Aidan Kelly and Roger Burrows
- Measure, value and the current crises of sociology / Nicholas Gane.