By: Lisa Adkins (Editor), Roger Burrows (Editor), Celia Lury (Editor)

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Explores how issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life <ul> <li> <div>Debates the restructuring of time, scale, number, pattern and sequence</div> <li> <div>Investigates&#160;the changing character and properties of data, evidence and the empirical</div> <li> <div>Questions if we do need new forms of measure and what different forms of measure actually do?</div> <li> <div>Addresses these and related questions to place issues of measure and value at the core of contemporary social science debate</div> </ul>

Series editor&rsquo;s introduction (Chris Shilling)

Introduction: special measures (Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury)

1. A flank movement in the understanding of valuation (Fabian Muniesa)

2. General Sentiment: how value and affect converge in the information economy (Adam Arvidsson)

3 The changing lives of measures and values: from centre stage in the fading &lsquo;disciplinary&rsquo; society to pervasive background instrument in the emergent &lsquo;control&rsquo; society (Helen Verran)

4. Transactional politics (Evelyn Ruppert and Mike Savage)

5. Dirty data: longitudinal classification systems (Emma Uprichard)

6. The economy of social data: exploring research ethics as device (Ana Gross)

7. Measuring the value of sociology? Some notes on performative metricization in the contemporary academy (Aidan Kelly and Roger Burrows)

8. Measure, value and the current crises of sociology (Nicholas Gane)

Notes on contributors

Index

ISBN: 9781444339581
ISBN-10: 1444339583
Series: Sociological Review Monographs
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 188
Published: 22nd June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.4  x 1.049
Weight (kg): 0.268