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+reputati.... The original paper appears to be available here: https://www.academia.edu/6636459/Reputation_among_the_Hungarian_Intellectual.... 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@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@law.georgetown.edu http://www.juliecohen.com
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