Constructing quality : the classification of goods in markets / edited by Jens Beckert and Christine Musselin.

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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191665264
0191665266
1299746454
9781299746459

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing quality.DDC classification:

658.562 23

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HF5415.157

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; Part I: Investing in Quality; 2. Realizing Dreams, Proving Thrift: How Product Demonstrations Qualify Financial Objects and Subjects; 3. Quality and Temporality in Timber Markets; 4. A Good Match: Appraising Worth and Estimating Quality in School Choice; Part II: The Quality of Labor; 5. Uncertainties Regarding Applicant Quality: The Anonymous Resume Put to the Test

6. Evaluation Practices in Internal Labor Markets: Constructing Engineering Managers' Qualification in French and German Automotive FirmsPart III: The Quality of Aesthetic Goods; 7. Account of the Past: Mechanisms of Quality Construction in the Market for Antiques; 8. Seeing the World through Common Lenses? The Case of French Contemporary Poetry; Part IV: The Morality of Quality; 9. Halal and the Moral Construction of Quality: How Religious Norms Turn a Mass Product into a Singularity; 10. Qualification under Moral Constraints: The Funeral Purchase as a Problem of Valuation

Part V: Consuming Quality11. From Qualities to Value: Demand Shaping and Market Control in Mass Consumption Markets; 12. Fake Qualities: Assessing the Value of Counterfeit Goods; 13. Quality Classifications in Competition: Price Formation in the German Wine Market; Postscript; 14. Vigorous Verbs: Conveying the Action of People Producing Qualities; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Summary: This text explores how value and quality are established in markets and society by means of a series of empirical studies across a diverse set of topics. It contributes to the sociology of markets, as well as connecting to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through classification.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This text explores how value and quality are established in markets and society by means of a series of empirical studies across a diverse set of topics. It contributes to the sociology of markets, as well as connecting to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through classification.

English.

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