Difference, competition and disproportion : the sociology of creative work / / Pierre-Michel Menger ; translator Liz Libbrecht.

Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of individual inventiveness, the...

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Place / Publishing House:France : : Collège de France,, 2014
Year of Publication:2016
2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (22 pages)
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