Constructing Quality
The Classification of Goods in Markets
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199677573
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 239x162x28 mm
- Weight 692 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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How 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 product space. While we normally take the quality of goods for granted, quality at a closer look is the outcome of a highly complex process of construction involving producers, consumers, and market intermediaries engaged in judgment, evaluation, categorization, and measurement.
The authors in this volume investigate the processes through which the quality of goods is established. They also investigate how product qualities are contested and how they change over time. The empirical cases discussed cover a broad range of markets in which quality is especially difficult to assess. The cases include: halal food, funeral markets, wine, labor, school choice, financial products, antiques, and counterfeit goods. The book contributes to the sociology of markets. At the same time it connects to the larger issue of the constitution of social order through cognitive processes of classification.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I Investing in Quality
Realizing Dreams, Proving Thrift: How Product Demonstrations Qualify Financial Objects and Subjects
Quality and Temporality in Timber Markets
A Good Match: Appraising Worth and Estimating Quality in School Choice
Part II The Quality of Labor
Uncertainties Regarding Applicant Quality: The Anonymous Resume Put to the Test
Evaluation Practices in Internal Labor Markets: Constructing Engineering Managers Qualification in French and German Automotive Firms
Part III The Quality of Aesthetic Goods
Account of the Past: Mechanisms of Quality Construction in the Market for Antiques
Seeing the World through Common Lenses? The Case of French Contemporary Poetry
Part IV The Morality of Quality
Halal and the Moral Construction of Quality: How Religious Norms Turn a Mass Product into a Singularity
Qualification under Moral Constraints: The Funeral Purchase as a Problem of Valuation
Part V Consuming Quality
From Qualities to Value: Demand Shaping and Market Control in Mass Consumption Markets
Fake Qualities: Assessing the Value of Counterfeit Goods
Quality Classifications in Competition: Price Formation in the German Wine Market
Postscript
Vigorous Verbs: Conveying the Action of People Producing Qualities
