Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
Language: English
Published by OUP, 2013
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2013 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear, small tear to dustjacket else very good condition. Contents: 1. Introduction - Jens Beckert and Christine Musselin Part I Investing in Quality 2. Realizing Dreams, Proving Thrift: How Product Demonstrations Qualify Financial Objects and Subjects - Zsuzsanna Vargha 3. Quality and Temporality in Timber Markets - Patrik Aspers 4. A Good Match: Appraising Worth and Estimating Quality in School Choice - Agnes van Zanten Part II The Quality of Labor 5. Uncertainties Regarding Applicant Quality: The Anonymous Resume Put to the Test - Emmanuelle Marchal 6. Evaluation Practices in Internal Labor Markets: Constructing Engineering Managers' Qualification in French and German Automotive Firms - Philipp Gerlach Part III The Quality of Aesthetic Goods 7. Account of the Past: Mechanisms of Quality Construction in the Market for Antiques - Elena Bogdanova 8. Seeing the World through Common Lenses? The Case of French Contemporary Poetry - Sebastien Dubois and Pierre Francois Part IV The Morality of Quality 9. Halal and the Moral Construction of Quality: How Religious Norms Turn a Mass Product into a Singularity - Frans van Waarden and Robin van Dalen 10. Qualification under Moral Constraints: The Funeral Purchase as a Problem of Valuation - Dominic Akyel Part V Consuming Quality 11. From Qualities to Value: Demand Shaping and Market Control in Mass Consumption Markets - Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier 12. Fake Qualities: Assessing the Value of Counterfeit Goods - Frank Wehinger 13. Quality Classifications in Competition: Price Formation in the German Wine Market - Jorg Rossel and Jens Beckert Postscript 14. Vigorous Verbs: Conveying the Action of People Producing Qualities - Wendy Nelson Espeland. …
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- Title
- Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
- Author
- Jens Beckert, Christine Musselin, Zsuzsanna Vargha, Patrik Aspers, Agnes van Zanten, Emmanuelle Marchal, Philipp Gerlach, Elena Bogdanova, Sebastien Dubois, Pierre Francois, Frans van Waarden, Robin van Dalen, Dominic Akyel, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Frank Wehinger, Jorg Rossel, and Wendy Nelson Espeland.
- Publisher
- OUP
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199677573
- ISBN 13
- 9780199677573
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About the Author
Christine Musselin is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS. She has been a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999. She has held visiting positions at Harvard University and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Her work focuses on comparative studies on university governance, public policies in higher education and research, state-universities relationships, and academic labor markets. She is the author of two monographs on the French higher education system (Presses Universitaires de France 2001) and on the academic labor market in France, Germany, and the US (Presses de Sciences Po 2005), that were both edited in English by Routledge. Her articles have been published by Sociologie du Travail, Revue Française de Sociologie, Revue Française de Science Politique, and Higher Education.
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