عنوان

Ordinalization:

شماره

LA8s5085jb

عنوان اصلي

Ordinalization:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Fourcade, M

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Lewis A. Coser Memorial Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting 2014

متن يادداشت

© American Sociological Association. We can think of three basic principles of classificatory judgment for comparing things and people. I call these judgments nominal (oriented to essence), cardinal (oriented to quantities), and ordinal (oriented to relative positions). Most social orders throughout history are organized around the intersection of these different types. In line with the ideals of political liberalism, however, democratic societies have developed an arsenal of institutions to untangle nominal and ordinal judgments in various domains of social life. In doing so, I suggest, they have contributed to the parallel amplification of both. In this article, I specifically discuss the socio-technical channels through which ordinal judgments are now elaborated, a process I call ordinalization. I conclude by exploring the political and economic possibilities of a society in which ordinal processes are ubiquitous.

تاريخ نشر

2016

عنوان

UC Berkeley

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y