The evaluation society / Peter Dahler-Larsen.

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Dahler-Larsen, Peter [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Danish Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804778121
0804778124

Uniform titles:

Rituelle reflektion. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

302.13 23

LOC classification:

HM786 .D3513 2012

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Contents:

The evaluation wave: from mystery to analysis -- Organizational understandings : rational, learning, and institutionalized organization -- Evaluation in the institutionalized organization -- Modernity and its "evaluation imaginary" -- Reflexive modernity -- Evaluation in reflexive modernity -- Audit society, neorigorism, and evaluation machines -- The critique of evaluation machines -- Epilogue: perspectives for evaluation

Summary: Evaluation - whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others - is an important social activity. Any public or private organization that 'lives in public' must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation? And, what worthwhile results emerge from it? This book argues that if we want to understand many of the norms, values, and expectations that we, sometimes unknowingly, bring to evaluation, we should explore how evaluation is demanded, formatted, and shaped by the two great principles of social order: 'organization' and 'society'.

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Translated from the Danish.

Evaluation - whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others - is an important social activity. Any public or private organization that 'lives in public' must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation? And, what worthwhile results emerge from it? This book argues that if we want to understand many of the norms, values, and expectations that we, sometimes unknowingly, bring to evaluation, we should explore how evaluation is demanded, formatted, and shaped by the two great principles of social order: 'organization' and 'society'.