%0 Journal Article
%T The Social Life of Measures: Conceptualizing Measure¨CValue Environments
%A Andrea Mubi Brighenti
%J Theory, Culture & Society
%@ 1460-3616
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0263276416689028
%X Issues of measure and measurement, and their relation to value and values, are of concern in several major threads in contemporary social theory and social research. In this article, the notion of ¡®measure¨Cvalue environments¡¯ is introduced as a theoretical lens through which the life of measures can be better understood. A number of points are made which represent both a continuation and a slight change in emphasis vis-¨¤-vis the existing scholarship. First, it is argued that the relation between measure and value is necessarily circular ¨C better, entangled. Second, a conceptualization of measures as territorializing devices is advanced. Third, importance is given to the fact that measures are not simply tools in our hands, they are also environments in which we live. Fourth, attention is drawn to the fact that the unit (n£¿=£¿1) is not just a quantitative happening among others, but is qualitatively distinct
%K measure¨Cvalue environment
%K metrics
%K social life of measures
%K social logic/social teleology
%K valorization (accretion of value)
%K value and worth
%K value creation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263276416689028