Special Issue "Markets and Classifications. Categorizations and Valuations as Social Processes Structuring Markets" Historical Social Research

Karoline Krenn (Ed.) (2017) Historical Social Research, 42(1). In the last couple of years the discussion on market classifications has received new topicality through the unbounded possibilities offered by digital technologies to track behavioral data. Understanding the social foundations of categories and classification systems is a fundamental problem in sociology. In markets, classifications are present in the variety of goods traded, in quality differentiations and their association to g..