Ten Proposals on Values

Heinich, Nathalie

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“…One example being Nathalie Heinich, who focuses on a move from sociology of art to “sociology from art.” Heinich “attempts to elaborate valid analytical models that can be used in the understanding of other social fields, an undertaking that begins to lead Heinich away from the sociology of art” and more towards other matters such as value (Danko, 2008, p. 248; see further, Heinich, 2006, pp. 120, 123; Heinich, 2007, 2010, and 2020). Others focus their inquiry on the closeness of art to sociology (Becker, 1982; de la Fuente, 2007; Nisbet, 1962) to break away from Pierre Bourdieu’s infamous line “sociology and art don’t make good bed fellows” (Bourdieu, 1993, p. 139) 1…”

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Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art

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The following article explores the different ways art sociologists investigate art that is based in the participatory arts. The aim is to shift the empirical focus to the art practice, which speaks for itself, and to place the work of the artist and all who cooperate or collaborate in the making of the artwork at the center of sociological analysis. By allowing the artist to speak fully about their work, art sociologists can uncover new social and cultural phenomena and better understand the different motivations underlying art‐making. The following literature highlights the recent tendencies in the sociology of art, explores the “social turn” in art and presents different sociologists who focus on the art practice and the art’s voice. For further development of the field, I suggest the sociology of art needs to catch‐up with the recent tendencies in art by placing the empirical focus on participatory art practices that will not only give us a better understanding about the intricate actions taking place in the art making, but it will also illuminate new layers of social life that are hidden. To conclude, I suggest that sociologists engage with participatory‐based artists to enhance sociology through a public sociology of art.

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“…In the line of this pragmatic turn in the sociology of valuation, I proposed a model helping to analyze the three kinds of valuation: measure, attachment and judgment (Heinich 2017(Heinich , 2020a(Heinich , 2020b. Based on actual valuation processes observed in their context of production, this model has been initiated through the analysis of controversies about bullfighting (Heinich 1993), contemporary art (Heinich 1995) and national heritage (Heinich 2009), most of them dealing with tensions between aesthetic and ethical values.…”

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Emotions and Valuations: Notre-Dame de Paris on Fire as a Case Study for Axiological Sociology

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2021

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The emotional reactions aroused by the fire that partly destroyed Notre-Dame de Paris in April 2019 can be analyzed as “valuations” in the light of the pragmatic sociology of values, since they provide empirically grounded material allowing for the description and modeling of the actual implementations and effects of valuations. After a quick summary of the recent history of the pragmatic turn in sociology as related to the sociology of valuation, and a short reflection on the relationship between emotions and values, the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris is used as a case study in the light of “axiological sociology”, a model built on value judgments observed in various contexts, including the display of emotions. This article intends to demonstrate both empirically and theoretically how important it is for the social sciences to consider values as an autonomous issue, deserving to be treated as “axiological facts”, as any other kind of social fact.

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“…In the pragmatist move, the operations through which a quality is assigned to an object, in Heinich's terms, depend on the nature of the object being evaluated, on the nature of the evaluating subjects, and on the nature of the context of valuations. In the taxonomic inclination of her programmatic claims, there are categories of objects that undergo valuation: things, people, actions, and states of the world ( 2020a , 219). The ISS is a good case to think through the limitations of these compartmentalizations, considering not only the diversity of actors that make assessments, but what they mean specifically when they say “ISS” in general and “ISS science” in particular.…”

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“…The growing interest in the sociology on valuation (Helgesson & Muniesa, 2013 ; Kjellberg & Mallard, 2013 ; Antal et al, 2015 ; Heinich, 2020a , b ) does not represent a unified field. Lamont identified eight literatures in sociology that address valuation, but also a common ground among them: they are “concerned with how value is produced, diffused, assessed, and institutionalized across a range of settings” ( 2012 , 203).…”

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From Value to Valuation: Pragmatist and Hermeneutic Orientations for Assessing Science on the International Space Station

Castaño

2021

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Based on a study of the International Space Station (ISS), this paper argues that – as a set of orientations for sociological inquiry – pragmatism and hermeneutics are confluent frameworks to examine valuation as a social process. This confluence is grounded on their common attunement to valuing as a problematic and relational process, their equally common updates with theories of institutions, and a further conceptual development regarding the temporalities of valuation. I advance the argument in four steps. First, looking at how the question about the “scientific value” of the ISS is far from settled, I show how valuation is always about something considered problematic and indeterminate. Second, characterizing the ISS at the intersection of different criteria of assessment, I stress the nature of valuation as a fundamentally perspectival and interpretive process, and show how a hermeneutic approach can complement some of the limitations of pragmatism in this regard. Third, I look at the question of institutions considering how some modes of assessment sediment more successfully than others. Fourth, I argue that, while providing insights towards it, pragmatist and hermeneutic approaches to valuation have not fully grasped its temporal nature as a process, and outline ways to open this line of inquiry. I conclude with some ideas for studies in sociology of science to re-entangle detailed case studies of scientific practice with the study of how institutions make claims of worth about the nature of science, I propose ways to extend these arguments to other studies of what I call iridescent institutions, and I make some considerations about our stance as sociologists in these valuation disputes.

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Ten Proposals on Values

Cited by 22 publications

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Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art

Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art

Emotions and Valuations: Notre-Dame de Paris on Fire as a Case Study for Axiological Sociology

From Value to Valuation: Pragmatist and Hermeneutic Orientations for Assessing Science on the International Space Station

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