[Air-L] work on history of reputation as a social construct?

[Cory Salveson]

Hi Julie,

Are you looking at work on social capital theory? I think particularly of
Bourdieu. Although I can't think of any work of his specifically devoted to
"reputation" per se (though Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment
of Taste and Language & Symbolic Power do come to mind), some searching
yielded a passage in a recent, edited book that summarizes his
understanding of the topic:
https://books.google.com/books?id=LViiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT278&dq=bourdieu+reputation.
The original paper appears to be available here:
https://www.academia.edu/6636459/Reputation_among_the_Hungarian_Intellectual_Elite.
Though the book and paper are contemporary, Bourdieu's theoretical approach
was developed starting in the 1970s, and was not (at least in this context)
reacting to the Internet specifically.

Good luck,

Cory Salveson
http://corysalveson.com

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Julie Cohen <jec at law.georgetown.edu> wrote:

> Hi all - does anyone know of any good work on the history/sociology of
> reputation, pre-Internet? I.e., before it morphed into a topic for computer
> scientists, web designers, and information economy pundits? Many thanks!
> Julie
>
> Julie E. Cohen
> Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law & Technology
> Georgetown University Law Center
> jec at law.georgetown.edu
> http://www.juliecohen.com
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