【2013】 Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
Book 图书名称： Constructing Quality: The Classification of Goods in Markets
Author 作者： Jens Beckert, Christine Musselin
Publisher 出版社： Oxford University Press
Page 页数： 368
Publishing Date 出版时间： Jul 24, 2013
Language 语言：English
Size 大小： 2 MB
Format 格式： pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0199677573, 9780199677573
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛，没有该文档
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.
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