Uncertainty individual problems and public solutions
Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing uncertainty,...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Pres
[2024]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842129906719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Uncertainty
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. How Much Can We Know?
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, Risk, and Ambiguity
- Attempts to Turn Uncertainty into Risk
- Knowledge as a Remedy for Uncertainty
- The Hermeneutics of Knowledge
- Private Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
- Public Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
- Outline
- PART IPrinciples of States of the World
- 2. Informal Institutions
- Informal and Formal Institutions
- From Struggle to Informal Institutions
- The Lifeworld of Informal Institutions
- Institutionalization
- How Informal Institutions Show Up
- How Do Institutions Reduce Uncertainty?
- Conclusion
- 3. Formal Institutions
- Decisions for Others in Public
- Setting Laws
- Standards
- Conclusion
- 4. Evaluation
- Evaluations and Their Prevalence
- Evaluation Against Objective Scales
- Evaluation as a Discourse-Towards Decisions for Others
- Conclusion
- PART II: Forms Producing States of the World5. Convaluation
- 5. Convaluation
- Convaluations as Forms
- Value Uncertainty
- Mutual Adjustment
- Grown and Decided Forms of Convaluations
- Producer Markets as Grown Economic Convaluations
- Convaluations as Result of Decisions-Organization
- Elections as Decided Convaluations
- Exchange Markets as Decided Convaluations
- Conclusion
- 6. Deciding for Others
- Valuation Arising from Decisions for Others
- Valuation as an Evaluation Discourse
- Reviews
- Ratings
- Prizes as Indirect Competition
- Rankings
- Predictions
- Conclusion
- 7. Contest
- Concepts of Contest
- From Violence to Peaceful Contests
- Indirect Contests and Competition
- The Culture of Contest
- The Making of Forms of Contest
- Conclusion
- 8. Making and Reducing Uncertainty
- The Making of Means of Uncertainty Reduction
- Addressing Uncertainty.
- The Opportunity of Uncertainty
- Existential Uncertainty Reduction
- Private Truth Claims and the Public
- Appendix. A Typology of Convaluations
- Notes
- References
- Index.
