market-civic compromise, 1

 Boltanski and Thevenot identify six orders of worth, each of which is characterised by its own logic and system of value: the market, industrial, civic, domestic, inspired, and the world of fame/opinion (Boltanski and Thevenot 1999, see Table 1). Each order of worth contains a repertoire of legitimate principles of justification which people can use in situations with contested values. Ultimately, arguing from within one order of worth means denouncing all others (Boltanski and Thevenot 2006). However, compromises may be made in cases where justifications draw on values from two orders. An example is politicised consumption, that is, ways in which individual consumers exert societal or political influence via their market purchases (Micheletti et al. 2004), which can be seen as a compromise between the market and civic orders. Here market evaluation criteria (market competition) go hand in hand with civic evaluation criteria (collective welfare).

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