Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
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构建质量：市场商品的分类
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2013
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Christine Musselin
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Jens Beckert;Christine Musselin
当我们想要获得的商品的质量是未知的、不可见的或不确定的时，我们怎么能参与市场关系呢？为了使市场交换成为可能，货物的买方和供应商必须能够评估一种产品相对于其他产品的质量。只有认识到质量和感知质量差异，购买者才能做出非随机选择，商品之间的价格差异才是合理的。“质量”不是一个自然的给定，而是一个社会过程的结果，在这个过程中，产品被视为具有某些特征，并在产品空间中相对于其他产品占据特定的位置。虽然我们通常认为商品的质量是理所当然的，但仔细观察质量是一个高度复杂的构建过程的结果，涉及生产者，消费者和市场中介机构，他们参与判断，评估，分类和测量。本书的作者研究了商品质量确定的过程。他们还调查产品质量如何受到质疑，以及它们如何随着时间的推移而变化。所讨论的实证案例涵盖了质量特别难以评估的广泛市场。这些案例包括：清真食品、殡葬市场、葡萄酒、劳动力、学校选择、金融产品、古董和假冒商品。这本书对市场社会学有所贡献。与此同时，它通过分类的认知过程与社会秩序的构成这一更大的问题相联系。贡献者本卷-多米尼克Akyel，研究员，马克斯普朗克研究所的社会研究在科隆。Patrik Aspers，乌普萨拉大学社会学教授兼社会学系主任。延斯·贝克特，社会学教授，科隆马克斯·普朗克社会研究所所长。Elena Bogdanova，斯德哥尔摩大学社会学系博士后研究员。鲁昂商学院副教授、巴黎政治学院组织社会学中心副研究员、巴黎国家科学研究中心副研究员。Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier，研究教授，组织社会学中心，巴黎政治学院和巴黎CNRS的研究单位。温迪埃斯佩兰，社会学教授，西北大学，埃文斯顿，伊利诺伊州。Pierre Francois，巴黎政治学院和CNRS组织社会学中心研究教授，巴黎综合理工学院教授。Philipp盖拉赫，博士后研究员，位于科隆的马克斯·普朗克社会研究所。Emmanuelle Marchal，研究员，组织社会学中心，巴黎政治学院和法国国家科学研究院，巴黎。克莉丝汀穆塞林，组织社会学中心主任，巴黎政治学院和国家科学研究中心，巴黎。Jorg Rossel，苏黎世大学社会学教授。Robin货车达伦，销售/新业务开发，飞利浦。Frans货车Waarden，荷兰乌得勒支大学政策和组织学教授，国际荣誉大学学院研究员。Agnes货车Zanten，变革社会学观察站高级研究教授。Zsuzsanna Vargha，伦敦经济学院会计研究员，伦敦经济与政治学院。Frank Wehinger，马克斯·普朗克社会研究所研究员，科隆。
How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? For market exchange to be possible, purchasers and suppliers of goods must be able to assess the quality of a product in relation to other products. Only by recognizing qualities and perceiving quality differences can purchasers make non-random choices, and price differences between goods be justified. "Quality" is not a natural given, but the outcome of a social process in which products become seen as possessing certain traits, and occupying a specific position in relation to other products in the product space. While we normally take the quality of goods for granted, quality at a closer look is the outcome of a highly complex process of construction involving producers, consumers, and market intermediaries engaged in judgment, evaluation, categorization, and measurement. The authors in this volume investigate the processes through which the quality of goods is established. They also investigate how product qualities are contested and how they change over time. The empirical cases discussed cover a broad range of markets in which quality is especially difficult to assess. The cases include: halal food, funeral markets, wine, labor, school choice, financial products, antiques, and counterfeit goods. The book contributes to the sociology of markets. At the same time it connects to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through cognitive processes of classification. Contributors to this volume - Dominic Akyel, Research Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. Jens Beckert, Professor of Sociology and Director, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Elena Bogdanova, Postdoctoral Fellow, the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. Sebastien Dubois, Associate Professor, Rouen Business School and Associate Researcher, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris. Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Research Professor, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS in Paris. Wendy Espeland, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Pierre Francois, Research Professor, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris, and Professor, the Ecole Polytechnique. Philipp Gerlach, Postdoctoral Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Emmanuelle Marchal, Researcher, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris. Christine Musselin, Director of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris. Jorg Rossel, Professor of Sociology, the University of Zurich. Robin van Dalen, Sales/New Business Development, Philips. Frans van Waarden, Professor of Policy and Organization, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and a Fellow of its International Honors University College. Agnes van Zanten, Senior Research Professor, the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (Sciences Po-CNRS). Zsuzsanna Vargha, LSE Fellow in Accounting, the London School of Economics and Political Science. Frank Wehinger, Researcher, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.