After Justification Repertoires of Evaluation and the Sociology of Modernity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the moral and political sociology developed by the research group around Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot from its gradual dissociation from the tradition of critical sociology during the 1980s to the present.
Abstract: This article presents the moral and political sociology developed by the research group around Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot from its gradual dissociation from the tradition of critical sociology during the 1980s to the present. Taking the major presentation of this approach, De la justification, as the point of departure, the key items of criticism to which this book was exposed are discussed, both in terms of their intellectual merit and in light of the ongoing debates in French social and political theory. The work of this group was often rather erroneously taken to have provided both a new theory of society and a new normative political philosophy. What it aimed at achieving in the first place, in contrast, was a questioning of the assumptions on which reasonings in social theory and political philosophy are based and how those reasonings relate to social actors' own engagement with the world. Not least in response to the criticism received, however, the approach has been further elaborated in re...
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TL;DR: The authors discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years, focusing on subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, conditions that sustain heterarchies and valuation and evaluative practices.
Abstract: This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The goal is to bring various bodies of work into conversation with one another in order to stimulate more cumulative theory building. This is accomplished by focusing on (a) subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, (b) the conditions that sustain heterarchies, and (c) valuation and evaluative practices. The article reviews these literatures and provides directions for a future research agenda.
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...…as they pertain to other orders of worth: industrial logic (one that emphasizes productivity), domestic logic (which emphasizes interpersonal relationship), civic logic (which emphasizes civic solidarity within the polity), inspired logic (which concerns charisma), and fame (also Wagner 1999)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a model of the sense of justice as it is displayed in ordinary situated disputes is proposed, which accounts for a plurality of legitimate forms of evaluation which are used in the process of critique and justification, and it escapes a relativism of values by demonstrating that all these forms satisfy a set of common requirements.
Abstract: The paper offers a modelling of the sense of justice as it is displayed in ordinary situated disputes. While this model accounts for a plurality of legitimate forms of evaluation which are used in the process of critique and justification, it escapes a relativism of values by demonstrating that all these forms satisfy a set of common requirements. The reasonable character of the everyday sense of justice is also anchored in a reality test involving the engagement of objects which qualify for a certain form of evaluation. The paper discusses this model in relation to competing theories of justice, and models of social action and interaction.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how the order-of-worth framework has been applied to empirical studies of organizations, focusing on the coexistence of competing orders of worth in organizations.
Abstract: Different notions of multiple rationalities have recently been applied to describe the phenomena of co-existence of competing rationalities in organizations. These include institutional pluralism, institutional logics, competing rationalities and pluralistic contexts. The French pragmatic sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot have contributed to this line of research with a sophisticated theoretical framework of orders of worth, which has been applied in an increasing number of empirical studies. This article explores how the order of worth framework has been applied to empirical studies of organizations. First, I summarize the basic ideas of the framework, stressing the aspects of special relevance for studies of organizations. Second, I review the empirical studies focusing on the coexistence of competing orders of worth in organizations showing that the order of worth framework primarily has been related to three main themes in organizational research: non-profit and co-operative organization...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of worlds of justification as developed in Convention Theory (CT) is utilized to address the emerging complexity of organic production in New Zealand, and the authors conclude with the imperative to move beyond bifurcation and acknowledge the greater complexity of negotiated outcomes that might be achieved from a CT perspective than from existing political economy-derived models.
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TL;DR: The Human Condition as mentioned in this paper is a classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely, it contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.
Abstract: The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then-diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions-continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.
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TL;DR: In this article, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management which ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises.
Abstract: Le capitalisme prospere ; la societe se degrade. Le profit croit, comme l'exclusion. La veritable crise n'est pas celle du capitalisme, mais celle de la critique du capitalisme. Trop souvent attachee a d'anciens schemas d'analyse, la critique conduit nombre de protestataires a se replier sur des modalites de defense efficaces dans le passe mais desormais largement inadaptees aux nouvelles formes du capitalisme redeploye. Cette crise, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski, sociologues, l'analysent a la racine. Ils tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management qui ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises : a partir du milieu des annees 70, le capitalisme renonce au principe fordiste de l'organisation hierarchique du travail pour developper une nouvelle organisation en reseau, fondee sur l'initiative des acteurs et l'autonomie relative de leur travail, mais au prix de leur securite materielle et psychologique. Ce nouvel esprit du capitalisme a triomphe grâce a la formidable recuperation de la " critique artiste ", celle qui, apres Mai 68, n'avait eu de cesse de denoncer l'alienation de la vie quotidienne par l'alliance du Capital et de la bureaucratie. Une recuperation qui a tue la " critique artiste ". Dans le meme temps la " critique sociale " manquait le tournant du neocapitalisme et demeurait rivee aux vieux schemas de la production hierarchisee ; on la trouva donc fort demunie lorsque l'hiver de la crise fut venu. C'est a une relance conjointe des deux critiques complementaires du capitalisme qu'invite cet ouvrage sans equivalent.
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