{"product_id":"the-sense-of-dissonance-9780691152486","title":"The Sense of Dissonance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. Drawing on the notion that \"perplexing situations\" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, this title argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Sense of Dissonance is an important and refreshing contribution to both economic sociology and organizational sociology, introducing a wealth of new concepts, ideas, and lines of thinking.\"--Olav Velthuis, American Journal of Sociology \"Stark's ideas about the value of play, ambiguity, and uncertainty are particularly provocative and far-reaching.\"--Brooke Harrington, Contexts \"[S]mart and ambitious... [This book] constitutes an important contribution to the most cutting-edge debates of contemporary economic sociology and organization theory.\"--Pierre Francois, European Economic Sociology Newsletter \"Stark gave us a book both theoretically very deep, pleasant to read, and rich in empirical details.\"--Filippo Barbera, Sociologica \"The Sense of Dissonance is a great book, and I recommend it warmly... Like most great achievements, Stark's book opens up more questions than it answers and leaves its readers with important puzzles.\"--Petter Holm, Administrative Science Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi      Chapter 1: Heterarchy: The Organization of Dissonance 1  Searching Questions 1  For a Sociology of Worth 6  Entrepreneurship at the Overlap 13  Heterarchy 19  A Metaphor for Organization in the Twenty-first Century 27  Worth in Contentious Situations 31       Chapter 2: Work, Worth, and Justice in a Socialist Factory 35  The Partnership as Proof 36  Distributive Justice inside the Partnership 52  Maneuvering across Economies 64  Epilogue 75       Chapter 3: Creative Friction in a New-Media Start-Up 81  An Ecology of Value 84  The Firm and the Project Form 91  Distributing Intelligence 97  Organizing Dissonance 102  Discursive Pragmatism and Bountiful Friction 108  Epilogue 111       Chapter 4: The Cognitive Ecology of an Arbitrage Trading Room 118  Studying Quantitative Finance 120  Arbitrage, or Quantitative Finance in the Search for Qualities 126  The Trading Room as a Space for Associations 130  The Trading Room as an Ecology 135  The Trading Room as a Laboratory 142  The Pursuit of New Properties 151  Epilogue 153       Chapter 5: From Field Research to the Field of Research 163  From Classification to Search 166  From Diversity of Organizations to the Organization of Diversity 175  From Unreflective Taken-for-Granteds to Reflexive Cognition 183  From Shared Understandings to Coordination through  Misunderstanding 190  From Single Ethnographies to the Broader Sites of Situations 195  Reprise 204      Acknowledgments 213  Bibliography 217  Index 239","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403785511255,"sku":"9780691152486","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691152486.jpg?v=1730484540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sense-of-dissonance-9780691152486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}