The Organization of Valuation and Devaluation

以荣誉项目和艺术学院的人才选拔为例，本研究项目建立了选拔过程中外部规范和组织结构之间相互作用的模型。使用面向过程的案例比较，该项目致力于填补组织研究中的一个概念空白：到目前为止，外部规范和组织逻辑如何在成员选择过程中精确地相互作用在很大程度上被误解。要发展这一模式，必须综合运用惯例社会学和组织社会学。虽然公约社会学已被证明适合于描述具有冲突规范的谈判过程，但在这种方法中，正式组织的影响仍然没有得到详细说明。这一限制与一个互补的组织社会学观点相抗衡。资优学生选拔的调查对象适合本课题的理论概念关注，原因有二。首先，与其他选择标准相比，天赋的概念为解释提供了相对较大的空间。其次，天赋的概念具有相当大的规范性，因为天赋被视为绩效社会（主要）积极和稀缺的价值，而绩效社会传统上在一个以平等与卓越之间的紧张关系为特征的领域中运作。对天赋的解释范围及其规范的指控加剧了组织解决方案的紧张关系，从而促进了对其社会处理的调查。对奖学金项目和艺术学院的选拔过程进行个案比较调查，提供了宝贵的对比机会，例如，通过被选中的人在未来融入日常组织生活的不同方式。对于这种以比较过程为导向的选择程序分析，该项目使用了多层次的民族志和文献访问。因此，该研究项目旨在对社会规范和组织决策之间的相互作用进行更深入、详细和面向过程的理解。

Using the example of talent selection in honors programs and art colleges, the research project develops a model of interaction between external norms and organizational structures in selection processes. Using a process-oriented case comparison, the project is dedicated to filling a conceptual gap in organizational research: up to this date, it has been largely misunderstood how external norms and the organizational logic interact precisely in processes of member selection. To develop this model, a comprehensive application of both the sociology of conventions and the sociology of organization is necessary. Although the sociology of conventions has proven to be suitable for describing negotiation processes with conflicting norms, the impact of formal organization remains under-specified in this approach. This limitation is countered with a complementary organizational-sociological perspective. The object of investigation of the selection of gifted students is suitable for the theoretical-conceptual concern of the project for two reasons. First, the concept of giftedness opens up a relatively large space for interpretation compared to other selection criteria. Secondly, the concept of giftedness has a considerable normative charge, because giftedness is regarded as the (primarily) positive and scarce value of the performance society, which traditionally operates in a field, which is characterized by a tension between equality and excellence. The scope for interpretations of giftedness and its normative charge intensify this tension for the organizations’ solutions, thus facilitating the investigation of its social processing. The case-comparative investigation of selection processes in scholarship programmes and art academies opens up valuable contrasting opportunities, for example through the different ways in which the selected persons are integrated into everyday organizational life in the future. For this comparative process-oriented analysis of the selection procedures, the project uses a multi-level ethnographic and documentary access. The research project thus aims at a deeper, detailed and process-oriented understanding of the interactions between social norms and organizational decisions.