The Organization of Valuation and Devaluation

以荣誉课程和艺术学院的人才选拔为例，研究项目开发了一个外部规范和组织结构之间的相互作用的模型在选择过程中。使用过程为导向的案例比较，该项目致力于填补组织研究中的概念空白：到目前为止，它在很大程度上被误解了外部规范和组织逻辑如何在成员选择过程中准确地相互作用。要发展这一模式，就必须综合运用习俗社会学和组织社会学。虽然公约的社会学已被证明是适合描述谈判过程中的冲突规范，正式组织的影响仍然在这种方法中的具体化。这一限制是反击与互补的组织社会学的角度来看。选择资优学生的调查对象适合于该项目的理论概念关注，原因有二。首先，与其他选择标准相比，天赋的概念开辟了一个相对较大的解释空间。其次，天赋的概念有相当大的规范性负担，因为天赋被认为是（主要）积极的和稀缺的价值的性能社会，传统上运作的领域，其特点是平等和卓越之间的紧张关系。对天赋的解释范围及其规范性责任加剧了组织解决方案的紧张局势，从而促进了对其社会过程的调查。对奖学金方案和艺术学院的甄选过程进行的个案比较调查提供了宝贵的对比机会，例如，通过被选中者今后融入日常组织生活的不同方式。对于这种面向比较过程的选择程序的分析，该项目使用了多层次的人种学和文献访问。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.