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SASE 2005
What Counts? Calculation, Representation, Association
17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics
Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest
Budapest, June 30 - July 2, 2005
Faced with a deluge of information, a multiplicity of evaluative principles, and myriad
features that could be potentially salient, what is taken into account? What matters,
who counts, and with what kinds of measures and metrics? Whereas calculation,
representation, and association might conventionally map to the domains of economy,
polity, and the civic, we will be as much interested, for example, in representations
within the economy, calculations within the civic, and the problem of making associations
in politics. In examining how actors navigate multiple orders of worth we will be
especially interested in the socio-technologies of making and taking accounts. Because
tools count as constitutive parts of the social, they must be brought into our accounts.
Tools - instruments, artifacts, numbering systems, spreadsheets, microphones, monitors,
servers, protocols, platforms, podiums, flipcharts, websites, power points, algorithms,
maps, models, tabulators, tables - are a part not only of calculative practices but also
of public assemblages in politics and civic life. Network analysis, moreover, will be
enriched by studying how meetings, mobile phones, and emails mediate social ties.
SASE President, 2005:
David Stark, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute
SASE 2005 Program Co-Chairs:
Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute, Florence,
Greta Krippner, UCLA,
Elisa Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
Budapest Organizing Committee:
Nitsan Chorev, Central European University,
Peter Gedeon, Corvinus University of Economics
Balazs Vedres, Central European University,
Laszlo Letenyei, Corvinus University of Budapest
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