Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Biographic Data
| ID | 110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pardo-Guerra |
| SIGNATURE | PARDO-GUERRA J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3192-1104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning
Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early decades of the 21st century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking overview of the intersection between machine learning and sociology, exploring what sociology can gain from machine learning and how it can shed new light on …
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning
Symposium on The Ordinal Society
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book
The Quantified Scholar—Response to critics
Three exceptional scholars—Sarah De Rijcke, Sam Friedman, and John Holmwood—kindly provided comments on The Quantified Scholar. Writing from distinct analytical positions and reflecting their experiences within our profession, they offer important critiques of the book and its arguments. Their comments fall broadly along three distinct lines that will structure this response: a first concerning the ambiguities of quantification, a second that del…
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design
This paper considers the adoption of computational techniques within research designs modeled after the extended case method. Echoing calls to augment the power of contemporary researchers through the adoption of computational text analysis methods, we offer a framework for thinking about how such techniques can be integrated into quasi-ethnographic workflows to address broad, structural sociological claims. We focus, in particular, on how this a…
Quantified Scholar - How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets
Markets in milliseconds -- Infrastructures of kinship -- The power of invisibility -- The hubris of platforms -- The wizards of King Street -- Making moral markets -- Rabbits guarding the lettuce -- Infrastructures, kinship, and queues
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
Mercados como espelho
Este artigo interroga a conceitualização convencional dos mercados como redes, instituições e realizações performativas ao apresentá-los como espelhos culturais que refletem as idiossincrasias e modos de organização social de seus ambientes. Estendendo a metáfora weberiana do mercado como comunidades, e combinando-a com recentes teorias antropológicas do parentesco, o artigo propõe compreender processos de mercado como espaços de produção de rela…
Insurgent capitalism: Island, bricolage and the re-making of finance
Drawing on recent discussions of the material cultures of markets and of financial innovation as bricolage, this paper explores the development of Island, a new share-trading venue set up in 1995. We examine Island's roots in a very specific conflict in the US financial markets and in the information libertarianism of 'hacker culture', and examine the material bricolage involved in Island's construction. The paper also outlines the processes that…
Priceless Calculations
In this article, I forward an analysis of the art market that seeks to emphasize the often unexamined yet central economizing practices that fuel the circulation of objects and thus contribute to the distinct patterns of consumption, ownership, and mobilization of the art world. In stressing these economizing practices, I attempt to make visible the underlying sociality and symbolic practices that provide aesthetic and cultural meaning to artisti…
Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: Liquidity, Materiality and High-Frequency Trading
In 1999, Carruthers and Stinchcombe provided the classic discussion of 'the social structure of liquidity': the institutional arrangements that support markets in which 'exchange occurs easily and frequently'. Our argument in this paper is that the material aspects of these arrangements - and particularly the materiality of prices - need far closer attention than they normally receive. We develop this argument by highlighting two features of new …
Mapping emergence across the Atlantic: Some (tentative) lessons on nanotechnology in Latin America
Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets
How much for the Michelangelo? Valuation, Commoditization and Finitism in the Secondary Art Market
This article is a sociological re-evaluation of the auction house, a central institution of the secondary art market. As an intermediary between buyers and sellers, the auction house is portrayed as an institution that straddles the poles of economic (calculative) and social (aesthetic) life. Relying on the work of Michel Callon and Barry Barnes, the process of the commoditization that takes place within auction houses is presented as a structuri…
Creating flows of interpersonal bits: The automation of the London Stock Exchange,c. 1955-90
This article deals with the concept of market information. In particular, it argues that references to the so-called conduit metaphor, which represents markets as a series of information flows, hide the localized, historically contingent and materially mediated practices of the economy. Following the tradition of the performative theory of social institutions, this article argues that the specific meaning of 'market information' and its concrete …
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London - By C. Zaloom
Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: Liquidity, Materiality and High-Frequency Trading
In 1999, Carruthers and Stinchcombe provided the classic discussion of 'the social structure of liquidity': the institutional arrangements that support markets in which 'exchange occurs easily and frequently'. Our argument in this paper is that the material aspects of these arrangements - and particularly the materiality of prices - need far closer attention than they normally receive. We develop this argument by highlighting two features of new …
Insurgent capitalism: Island, bricolage and the re-making of finance
Drawing on recent discussions of the material cultures of markets and of financial innovation as bricolage, this paper explores the development of Island, a new share-trading venue set up in 1995. We examine Island's roots in a very specific conflict in the US financial markets and in the information libertarianism of 'hacker culture', and examine the material bricolage involved in Island's construction. The paper also outlines the processes that…
Creating flows of interpersonal bits: The automation of the London Stock Exchange,c. 1955-90
This article deals with the concept of market information. In particular, it argues that references to the so-called conduit metaphor, which represents markets as a series of information flows, hide the localized, historically contingent and materially mediated practices of the economy. Following the tradition of the performative theory of social institutions, this article argues that the specific meaning of 'market information' and its concrete …
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
How much for the Michelangelo? Valuation, Commoditization and Finitism in the Secondary Art Market
This article is a sociological re-evaluation of the auction house, a central institution of the secondary art market. As an intermediary between buyers and sellers, the auction house is portrayed as an institution that straddles the poles of economic (calculative) and social (aesthetic) life. Relying on the work of Michel Callon and Barry Barnes, the process of the commoditization that takes place within auction houses is presented as a structuri…
Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets
Mapping emergence across the Atlantic: Some (tentative) lessons on nanotechnology in Latin America
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London - By C. Zaloom
Creating flows of interpersonal bits: The automation of the London Stock Exchange,c. 1955-90
This article deals with the concept of market information. In particular, it argues that references to the so-called conduit metaphor, which represents markets as a series of information flows, hide the localized, historically contingent and materially mediated practices of the economy. Following the tradition of the performative theory of social institutions, this article argues that the specific meaning of 'market information' and its concrete …
Mapping emergence across the Atlantic: Some (tentative) lessons on nanotechnology in Latin America
Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets
How much for the Michelangelo? Valuation, Commoditization and Finitism in the Secondary Art Market
This article is a sociological re-evaluation of the auction house, a central institution of the secondary art market. As an intermediary between buyers and sellers, the auction house is portrayed as an institution that straddles the poles of economic (calculative) and social (aesthetic) life. Relying on the work of Michel Callon and Barry Barnes, the process of the commoditization that takes place within auction houses is presented as a structuri…
Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: Liquidity, Materiality and High-Frequency Trading
In 1999, Carruthers and Stinchcombe provided the classic discussion of 'the social structure of liquidity': the institutional arrangements that support markets in which 'exchange occurs easily and frequently'. Our argument in this paper is that the material aspects of these arrangements - and particularly the materiality of prices - need far closer attention than they normally receive. We develop this argument by highlighting two features of new …
Priceless Calculations
In this article, I forward an analysis of the art market that seeks to emphasize the often unexamined yet central economizing practices that fuel the circulation of objects and thus contribute to the distinct patterns of consumption, ownership, and mobilization of the art world. In stressing these economizing practices, I attempt to make visible the underlying sociality and symbolic practices that provide aesthetic and cultural meaning to artisti…
Insurgent capitalism: Island, bricolage and the re-making of finance
Drawing on recent discussions of the material cultures of markets and of financial innovation as bricolage, this paper explores the development of Island, a new share-trading venue set up in 1995. We examine Island's roots in a very specific conflict in the US financial markets and in the information libertarianism of 'hacker culture', and examine the material bricolage involved in Island's construction. The paper also outlines the processes that…
Mercados como espelho
Este artigo interroga a conceitualização convencional dos mercados como redes, instituições e realizações performativas ao apresentá-los como espelhos culturais que refletem as idiossincrasias e modos de organização social de seus ambientes. Estendendo a metáfora weberiana do mercado como comunidades, e combinando-a com recentes teorias antropológicas do parentesco, o artigo propõe compreender processos de mercado como espaços de produção de rela…
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets
Markets in milliseconds -- Infrastructures of kinship -- The power of invisibility -- The hubris of platforms -- The wizards of King Street -- Making moral markets -- Rabbits guarding the lettuce -- Infrastructures, kinship, and queues
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design
This paper considers the adoption of computational techniques within research designs modeled after the extended case method. Echoing calls to augment the power of contemporary researchers through the adoption of computational text analysis methods, we offer a framework for thinking about how such techniques can be integrated into quasi-ethnographic workflows to address broad, structural sociological claims. We focus, in particular, on how this a…
Quantified Scholar - How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators
The Quantified Scholar—Response to critics
Three exceptional scholars—Sarah De Rijcke, Sam Friedman, and John Holmwood—kindly provided comments on The Quantified Scholar. Writing from distinct analytical positions and reflecting their experiences within our profession, they offer important critiques of the book and its arguments. Their comments fall broadly along three distinct lines that will structure this response: a first concerning the ambiguities of quantification, a second that del…
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning
Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early decades of the 21st century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking overview of the intersection between machine learning and sociology, exploring what sociology can gain from machine learning and how it can shed new light on …
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning
Symposium on The Ordinal Society
Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)