Reputation : : What It Is and Why It Matters /

Reputation : : What It Is and Why It Matters / / Gloria Origgi.

A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary lifeReputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people and things are defined as good or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
VerfasserIn:
Origgi, Gloria,
TeilnehmendeR:
Arikha, Noga.
Holmes, Stephen.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 halftones. 5 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. How I See Myself Seen
  • 2. Is Reputation a Means or an End?
  • 3. "Somebody Told Me," or How Reputations Spread
  • 4. Assessing Uncertainty: How Trustworthy is a Reputation?
  • 5. The Paradox of the "Top Specialist" and the Heuristics of Reputation
  • 6. Homo Comparativus: Status, Honor, and Prestige
  • 7. Information and Reputation: The Collective Intelligence of the Web
  • 8. Experts and Connoisseurs: The Reputation of Wine
  • 9. Academic Reputation, or Voluntary Epistemic Servitude
  • 10. Reputation in Democracies: Instructions for Use
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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