A sociology of values and value

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The collection consists of transcripts from interviews with project participants, data from their Facebook usage, related advertising and browser tracking as well as survey answers. There has been a great deal of interest in how capital has intervened in almost every area of life, leading some to propose new forms of capital eg ‘emotional capitalism’, and others to suggest that processes of valuation are now the major method for understanding the social world. Whilst, no doubt, capital behaves according to its own logic, finding new lines of flight, converting affects into value, making multi-culturalism marketable, generating new forms of bio-capital, and making many of our actions subject to the logic of calculation, this project asks if anything is left behind. Is there anything that cannot be capitalised upon? Many social theories reproduce the logic of capital. But if we only understand the world from the perspective of this logic what do we miss seeing? Previous research projects have drawn attention to how values are formed beyond value, unnoticed and unseen, producing new ways of being and doing in the world, organised differently through spatial and temporal co-ordinates. This project consolidates and expands this analysis by exploring values (and their relationship to value) through two limit cases that attempt to convert all values to value: modern digital relations and traditional prosperity theology. But do they?

Data was collected from an online survey questionnaire, semi-structured face-to-face interviews, and automated extraction of data from participants' online activity. Data from Facebook itself was extracted through a custom built Facebook app which was able to access data via the Facebook API. This was created through the Facebook Developer system. All participants installing this app had to obtain Facebook Developer approval before installing. The app was deliberately kept in test mode so we could retain control over who installed it. Data outside of Facebook, such as evidence of tracking and advertising, was obtained through a custom built browser plug-in that participants installed on their personal web browsers.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-852701
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=4bd62fbb2001aa67a27cc7f3c19a64194fd563c6209a56b6319f6d74dc505601
Provenance
Creator Skeggs, B, Goldsmiths, University of London; Yuill, S, Goldsmiths, University of London
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London; The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service. All requests are subject to the permission of the data owner or his/her nominee. Please email the contact person for this data collections to request permission to access the data, explaining your reason for wanting access to do the data. Once permission is obtained, please forward this to the ReShare administrator.
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Numeric; Text
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Data gathered from online participants for whom country of residence was not always given.; United Kingdom; United States; Netherlands; Italy; Sweden; Australia