Qu’est-ce qui fait valeur dans notre société ?

Ogien, Albert

doi:10.4000/books.septentrion.27251

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“…1 But the reduction of valuation to quantified measurement and, more particularly, to price, often raises problems. Common sense tends to oppose the qualitative and supposedly intrinsic dimension of value to the quantitative and extrinsic dimension of price; art lovers regularly deplore the mismatch between price and the ‘true value’ of art works; and sociologists stigmatize the discrepancy between the complexity of the actual processes of value attribution and the simplification required by any pricing: some would like to extend value beyond price (Ogien, 2016: 29) while others, on the contrary, consider that speaking of ‘value’ only means criticizing or justifying a price when it comes to be contested, as we have already seen (Boltanski and Esquerre, 2017).…”

Section: To Finish With the Opposition Between Price And Value: Measumentioning

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A Pragmatic Redefinition of Value(s): Toward a General Model of Valuation

Heinich

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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This paper is intended to draw the main theoretical lines of the notion of value, in order to avoid some flaws in the quantitative surveys on values as well as in some qualitative studies of value judgements. Through a number of redefinitions based on a pragmatic approach, inspired not only by Dewey’s concept of ‘valuation’ but also by the new French pragmatic sociology and by the pragmatist trend in linguistics, it tries to specify the conditions under which sociology can address the notion of ‘value’ while avoiding their reduction to scholarly supports for morals or normative guides for action and evaluation. Meanwhile, it tries to construct a unified concept of value that would work for all the concerned disciplines: not only sociology but also economics, psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy.

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Section: To Finish With the Opposition Between Price And Value: Measumentioning

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A Pragmatic Redefinition of Value(s): Toward a General Model of Valuation

Heinich

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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“…Third, this pragmatic turn makes it possible to consolidate the orientation of sociology towards a scientific and no longer a moral or political aim, by understanding and explaining actors' relationship to axiological principles (or "values") through their contextual implementations and justifications (Lamont 1992(Lamont , 2012Boltanski 1993Boltanski , 2004Kaufmann 2012;Ogien 2016;Heinich 2017;Kaufmann and Gonzalez 2017). Far beyond the mere issue of valuation, and far beyond French borders, this indeed can be seen as an important step in the history of sociology (Heinich 2020a;Kuipers and Franssen 2020).…”

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

Heinich¹

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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“…It is even more essential to make sure this is the case because this order is presented as divine or natural. In this way of reasoning, rejecting these values actually means dissolving society or destroying civilisation’ (Ogien, 2016: 23–24).…”

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“…For them, values do not come from an immemorial collection which should be perpetuated identically forever. On the contrary, they are directed towards the future and advocate emancipation, humanism, equality, the rights of a person, secularity, the Republic or Reason’ (Ogien, 2016: 24).…”

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“… 6. Albert Ogien also differentiates between the second and third meanings of ‘values’ but he does so by reducing the first meaning to abstract values alone, which he assimilates to institutions, and does not include tangible values or the good: ‘Values sometimes refer to social institutions (family, nation, religion, secularism, the Republic) or to principles which underpin what is considered to be our common humanity (dignity, freedom, equality, honour, responsibility, fidelity, generosity). This difference is important: while institutions are contingent and constantly subject to criticism which may make them obsolete or transform them, principles have a certain permanence and are the invariable resources that serve to elaborate this criticism’ (Ogien, 2016: 28). …”

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