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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jens Beckert and Christine Musselin (eds.), Constructing QualityHow 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 prod.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2013 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear, small tear to dustjacket else very good condition. Contents: 1. Introduction - Jens Beckert and Christine Musselin Part I Investing in Quality 2. Realizing Dreams, Proving Thrift: How Product Demonstrations Qualify Financial Objects and Subjects - Zsuzsanna Vargha 3. Quality and Temporality in Timber Markets - Patrik Aspers 4. A Good Match: Appraising Worth and Estimating Quality in School Choice - Agnes van Zanten Part II The Quality of Labor 5. Uncertainties Regarding Applicant Quality: The Anonymous Resume Put to the Test - Emmanuelle Marchal 6. Evaluation Practices in Internal Labor Markets: Constructing Engineering Managers' Qualification in French and German Automotive Firms - Philipp Gerlach Part III The Quality of Aesthetic Goods 7. Account of the Past: Mechanisms of Quality Construction in the Market for Antiques - Elena Bogdanova 8. Seeing the World through Common Lenses? The Case of French Contemporary Poetry - Sebastien Dubois and Pierre Francois Part IV The Morality of Quality 9. Halal and the Moral Construction of Quality: How Religious Norms Turn a Mass Product into a Singularity - Frans van Waarden and Robin van Dalen 10. Qualification under Moral Constraints: The Funeral Purchase as a Problem of Valuation - Dominic Akyel Part V Consuming Quality 11. From Qualities to Value: Demand Shaping and Market Control in Mass Consumption Markets - Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier 12. Fake Qualities: Assessing the Value of Counterfeit Goods - Frank Wehinger 13. Quality Classifications in Competition: Price Formation in the German Wine Market - Jorg Rossel and Jens Beckert Postscript 14. Vigorous Verbs: Conveying the Action of People Producing Qualities - Wendy Nelson Espeland.…

Condition: New. This book explores how value and quality are established in markets and society by means of a series of empirical studies across a diverse set of topics. It contributes to the sociology of markets, as well as connecting to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through classification. Editor(s): Beckert, Jens; Musselin, Christine. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; KC; KJMV5; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 694. . 2013. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .…

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Condition: New. This book explores how value and quality are established in markets and society by means of a series of empirical studies across a diverse set of topics. It contributes to the sociology of markets, as well as connecting to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through classification. Editor(s): Beckert, Jens; Musselin, Christine. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; KC; KJMV5; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 694. . 2013. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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