Strategies of valuation: repertoires of worth at the financial margins

Degenshein, Anya

doi:10.1007/s11186-017-9297-z

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“…At a micro level, asymmetries of power could be challenged interactionally. For instance, Degenshein (2017) observed in her ethnography of a Chicago pawnshop that in many cases where shopkeepers and clients negotiated the value of pawned objects, emphasizing need and lower socioeconomic status by the client actually increased the perceived value of a pawned object and resulted in a higher payment to the client. This example showcases, as Bandelj (2012) has proposed, that relational work may offer a chance to overcome the rigidity of status inequalities, even if temporarily.…”

Section: Consequences Of Relational Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relational Work in the Economy

Bandelj

2020

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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In her groundbreaking scholarship on intimacy and economy, Viviana Zelizer coined the concept of relational work, or efforts in matching social relations with economic transactions and media of exchange. This article reviews the conceptual advances and empirical applications of relational work over the past two decades. I first trace the origins of the concept and discuss how it is distinct from the idea of embeddedness. I then identify variants of relational work proposed in economic sociology, including relational accounting, obfuscated exchange, clarifying and blurring practices, and emotions and power in relational work. The second part of the review discusses research on relational work in five areas: earmarking money, walking the terrain of morally problematic exchange, configuring social relations through economic activity, using social relations to negotiate economic interactions, and scaling up to relational work of organizations and institutions. I end by proposing areas of future research to examine the determinants and consequences of relational work for (dis)trust, (in)equality, and relational (mis)matches. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 46 is July 30, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Consequences Of Relational Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relational Work in the Economy

Bandelj

2020

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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“…The productive aspects of rhetoric have become clearer, however, in recent studies showing the centrality of language, discourses and narratives in structuring social change. Rhetorical factors have been emphasized in the emergence of economic models [Carruthers and Espeland 1991; McCloskey 1998], strategies of valuation [Degenshein 2017], and organizational change [Suddaby and Greenwood 2005]. This article demonstrates that rhetoric is also an important driver of institutional change in regulation.…”

Section: Rhetorical Metricsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Rhetorical Metrics Building Securities Regulation in America’s Era of Booms and Busts, 1890-1940

Pénet¹

2019

Arch. eur. sociol.

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How do regulators regulate with metrics? This article offers a rhetorical approach to this question, using early U.S. securities regulation as a case in point, and reliance on credit ratings as empirical illustration. A rhetorical approach challenges economists’ claim that metrics are limited to providing technical guidance to policy formation: the fact is that the role of metrics in regulation can be appreciated only if technical and social aspects are considered together. A rhetorical perspective also fills an important gap in sociological studies of “co-production” that claim that procedural deliberation enhances the legitimacy of regulation but underemphasize the role of quantification when procedural rules are lacking. This article suggests that rhetoric is not suboptimal or irrational but a vital form of deliberation in contexts of uncertainty, when decision-making requires some amount of persuasion outside a procedural context. I observe that metrics can be a powerful vehicle of rhetorical change. Two components of rhetorical metrics are highlighted. First are cognitive clutches, or the capacity to shift prevailing models of attention. Second are actionable arguments, the capacity to embed cognitive deviance into a compelling argument for change. I conclude with reflections on the legacy of rhetorical decisions on current policy debates.

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“…Sociologists have observed that material objects can accrue moral and economic worth affecting how actors make decisions about the value of their health, possessions, finances, and the natural environment (Barnard 2016;Degenshein 2017;Fourcade 2011;Livne 2014;Zelizer 2010). "Humanitarian technologies" define, standardize, and commensurate what counts as sexual violence (Morse 2014), and end-of-life palliative care moralizes scarcity of material medical interventions (Livne 2014).…”

Section: Opioids and The Biomedicalization Of Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis

Pryma¹

2022

Am Sociol Rev

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Journalistic accounts of the opioid crisis often paint prescription opioids as the instrument of profit-minded pharmaceutical companies who enlisted pain specialists to overprescribe addictive drugs. Broadening beyond a focus on pharmaceutical power, this article offers a comparative-historical explanation, rooted in inter- and intra-professional dynamics, of the global increase in rates of opioid prescribing. Through archival analysis and in-depth interviews with pain specialists and public-health officials in the United States and France, I explain how and why opioids emerged as the “right tool for the job” of pain relief in the 1980s and 1990s, affecting how pain science is produced, pain management is administered, and a right to pain relief is promised in different national contexts. I argue that opioids, selected and destigmatized as the technology for pain relief, helped establish a global network of pain expertise, linking a fledgling field of pain specialists to the resources of global-health governance, public-health administration, humanitarian organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. I then compare how U.S. and French pain specialists leveraged opioids to strengthen the boundaries of their emergent fields. Pain specialists’ differing degrees of autonomy in each country’s network of pain expertise shaped the extent to which opioids could dominate pain management and lead to crisis. Tracing the relationship between opioids and pain expertise, I show how technologies can drive crises of expert credibility if and when they escape the control of the networked fields that selected them.

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Strategies of valuation: repertoires of worth at the financial margins

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Relational Work in the Economy

Relational Work in the Economy

Rhetorical Metrics Building Securities Regulation in America’s Era of Booms and Busts, 1890-1940

Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis

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