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From social coding to economics of convention: a thirty-year perspective on the analysis of qualification and quantification investments

Von der sozialen Kodierung zur economics of convention: eine dreißigjährige Perspektive auf die Analyse der Investitionen in Qualifizierung und Quantifizierung
[journal article]

Thévenot, Laurent

Abstract

Among the contributions to the presently growing sociology of quantification, a long-standing French tradition has built on an approach to the "politics of statistics" based on the formatting practices of the transformative chain that leads to data. It resulted from statistician-economists who, in t... view more

Among the contributions to the presently growing sociology of quantification, a long-standing French tradition has built on an approach to the "politics of statistics" based on the formatting practices of the transformative chain that leads to data. It resulted from statistician-economists who, in the critical spirit of the 1960s, were reflexive and largely open to the social sciences, and cooperated with historians and sociologists. The article offers a 30 years' perspective on the avenue of research that began with the article "L'économie du codage social" which goes from labour designation and qualification to ways of making occupation worthy. It leads to the broader notion of "investments in forms" which produce equivalence and economies of coordination. While making available in English large extracts of the original paper, the author adds comments from today perspective on the development of this trend which has fuelled both On Justification (co-authored with Luc Boltanski) and convention theory more generally. (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
sociology; social science; science studies; pragmatism; quantification; economic sociology; historical development; economy; convention; sociology of work

Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Sociology of Economics

Free Keywords
economics of convention; social categorization

Document language
English

Publication Year
2016

Page/Pages
p. 96-117

Journal
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 2

Issue topic
Conventions and quantification - transdisciplinary perspectives on statistics and classifications

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.96-117

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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