Ordinalization: Lewis A. Coser Memorial Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting 2014
Ordinalization: Lewis A. Coser Memorial Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting 2014
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DOI：
10.1177/0735275116665876
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
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4.4
通讯作者：
Fourcade, Marion
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作者：
Fourcade, Marion
我们可以想到三个基本原则的分类判断比较事物和人。我称这些判断为名义（面向本质）、基数（面向数量）和序数（面向相对位置）。历史上大多数社会秩序都是围绕这些不同类型的交叉点组织起来的。然而，与政治自由主义的理想相一致，民主社会已经发展出一系列制度，以解决社会生活各个领域中的名义判断和顺序判断。我认为，在这样做的过程中，他们对两者的并行放大做出了贡献。在这篇文章中，我专门讨论了社会技术渠道，通过这些渠道，序数判断现在被详细阐述，我称之为排序的过程。最后，我探讨了一个有序过程普遍存在的社会的政治和经济可能性。
We can think of three basic principles of classificatory judgment for comparing things and people. I call these judgments nominal (oriented to essence), cardinal (oriented to quantities), and ordinal (oriented to relative positions). Most social orders throughout history are organized around the intersection of these different types. In line with the ideals of political liberalism, however, democratic societies have developed an arsenal of institutions to untangle nominal and ordinal judgments in various domains of social life. In doing so, I suggest, they have contributed to the parallel amplification of both. In this article, I specifically discuss the socio-technical channels through which ordinal judgments are now elaborated, a process I call ordinalization. I conclude by exploring the political and economic possibilities of a society in which ordinal processes are ubiquitous.