Authors:Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello,  Gregory Elliot,
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: capitalism, spirit, new
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844671658
ISBN-13: 9781844671656

A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures. Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of compani

Authors:Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thevenot,  Catherine Po
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: cultural, sociology, studies, princeton, economies, worth, justification
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-03-27
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0691125163
ISBN-13: 9780691125169

A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’s ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is like