The 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 valuation

2. Anthropological perspectives on value and valuation

3. The rise of a French pragmatic sociology of values

4. On Science and Technology Studies and valuation

5. Relinquishing value: Aristotle and the substances of institutional practice

6. Value(s) and (e)valuation in sociological systems theories

7. The ‘new’ sociology of knowledge and the sociology of valuation

Part II: Central valuation practices in societal spheres

II. A. Economic valuation

8. Economic valuation

9. Where the value is: Accounting and the spatialization of worth

10. Rethinking value through waste: About devaluation and society

II. B. Valuation in education and science

11. The panopticon of evaluation in educational organizations

12. Research on research evaluation: From particularism to synthesis

13. Competition and valuation in science and higher education

14. How evaluations fail: Investigating scientific misconduct

II. C. Valuation in arts and culture

15. Valuation practices in the visual arts

16. What is good music? Distinction and valuation in music worlds

17. What makes a book “good”? New perspectives on literary evaluation

Part III: Cross-cutting valuation practices

III. A. Valuation of human beings

18. Self-optimization

19. (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 platforms

24. The social logics of platform units: A brief history of valuation practices online

Part IV: Valuation and societal change

25. Economization: Valuation and the boundaries of valuation games

26. Risky values: Seeing risk through the lens of Valuation Studies

27. Valuation and sustainability

28. Datafied and (e)valuated: Datafication as driver of contingent (e)valuation

29. The amateurization of valuation in the digital age

30. Worlds of rankings research

Part V: Reflections

31. Reflections on the emergence of a research field: An interview with Michèle Lamont

Index