Constructing Quality
The Classification of Goods in Markets
Edited by Jens Beckert and Christine Musselin
Author Information
Jens Beckert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Cornell University, the European University Institute, and Sciences Po in Paris. The main focus of his research is economic sociology with a special emphasis on markets, organization studies, the sociology of inheritance and social theory. He is the author of two monographs on the sociology of markets (Princeton University Press 2002) and on the sociology of inheritance (PUP 2008). His articles have been published in journals such as Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Organization Studies, and the European Journal of Sociology.
Christine Musselin is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS. She has been a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999. She has held visiting positions at Harvard University and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Her work focuses on comparative studies on university governance, public policies in higher education and research, state-universities relationships, and academic labor markets. She is the author of two monographs on the French higher education system (Presses Universitaires de France 2001) and on the academic labor market in France, Germany, and the US (Presses de Sciences Po 2005), that were both edited in English by Routledge. Her articles have been published by Sociologie du Travail, Revue Francaise de Sociologie, Revue Francaise de Science Politique, and Higher Education.
Contributors:
Dominic Akyel, Research Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.
Jens Beckert, Professor of Sociology and Director, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Elena Bogdanova, Postdoctoral Fellow, the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University.
Sébastien Dubois, Associate Professor, Rouen Business School and Associate Researcher, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris.
Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Research Professor, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS in Paris.
Wendy Espeland, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Pierre François, Research Professor, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris, and Professor, the Ecole Polytechnique.
Philipp Gerlach, Postdoctoral Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Emmanuelle Marchal, Researcher, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris.
Christine Musselin, Director of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po and the CNRS, Paris.
Jörg Rössel, Professor of Sociology, the University of Zurich.
Robin van Dalen, Sales/New Business Development, Philips.
Frans van Waarden, Professor of Policy and Organization, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and a Fellow of its International Honors University College.
Agnès van Zanten, Senior Research Professor, the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (Sciences Po-CNRS).
Zsuzsanna Vargha, LSE Fellow in Accounting, the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Frank Wehinger, Researcher, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
