<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The transformation towards a functional differentiation of society and the current emergence of social media have increased the importance of reputation, because persons have become comparable and contingently addressable throughout society. We examine both social media and China’s emerging “social credit system” to determine whether and to what extent these developments point to the development of a symbolically generalized communication medium of reputation, respectively, to a social change from functional to individual differentiation.</p></abstract>

The transformation towards a functional differentiation of society and the current emergence of social media have increased the importance of reputation, because persons have become comparable and contingently addressable throughout society. We examine both social media and China’s emerging “social credit system” to determine whether and to what extent these developments point to the development of a symbolically generalized communication medium of reputation, respectively, to a social change from functional to individual differentiation.

Reputation as a Mechanism for Coping with the Contingency of Social Addressing

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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The transformation towards a functional differentiation of society and the current emergence of social media have increased the importance of reputation,...

Reputation as a Mechanism for Coping with the Contingency of Social Addressing

Published Online: Mar 20, 2020

Page range: 145 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0007

Keywords
reputation, social media, social credit system, tinder, metoo debate, unconditional basic income

© 2020 Jörg Räwel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reputation as a Mechanism for Coping with the Contingency of Social Addressing

Published Online: Mar 20, 2020

Page range: 145 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0007

Keywordsreputation, social media, social credit system, tinder, metoo debate, unconditional basic income

© 2020 Jörg Räwel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
reputation, social media, social credit system, tinder, metoo debate, unconditional basic income