Convention Theory, classification and quantification

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The article presents the main contributions of the French approach of economics of convention (EC) to the analysis of classifications and quantifications. Here, Alain Desrosières has delivered many outstanding contributions. The article shortly presents the approach of EC. Conventions are socio-cognitive resources actors rely on to achieve shared interpretations, evaluations and valuations of situations and the value of objects, persons and actions. Also, the interpretation of institutions has to apply conventions. Conventions with semantic content and without semantic content are compared, and the different scopes of convention-based coordination (in time and space) are discussed. Also the conception of a political economy of classification and quantification is presented. At the end of the article, a typology of situations of classifications and quantifications is introduced.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Konventionentheorie, Klassifikation und Quantifizierung
• ISSN: 0172-6404
• Extent: Seite(n): 48-71
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Historical Social Research, 41(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie ; Konvention ; Frankreich ; Forschungsansatz ; Klassifikation ; Institutionstheorie ; sozialer Prozess ; Neoliberalismus ; Quantifizierung ; Institution ; Institutionenökonomie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Diaz-Bone, Rainer
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.48-71
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-46968-6
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST