Pluralité du monde et régimes de présence des objets

• Main Author: Geneviève Teil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2013-04-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: mdes of existence; object; regimes of objectivity; assessment; wine; quality certification
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/1502

Grounding upon a series of studies on wine quality and certifications, this articles comes back to a long-lasting controversy about a variety of « shifts » within quality labelled products. Interviewed actors show a discrepancy about the « shape » of their qualified products, of which two extremes can be pointed out. The first is quite familiar: objects are represented thanks to a list of criteria which supports a conformity test allowing the quality label to « guarantee » a definite quality. The quality of the opposite « shape » cannot be grasped with such a criteria list; its quality is never definitively achieved. It is the always partial result of a criticism activity which perform a continuous and collective assessment of the wine quality. The article aims at confronting the controversies raised by this double antagonistic understanding of the wine quality ontology to the propositions issued from the work around Bolstanski’s and Thévenot’s Economies of the Grandeurs and the notion of « bien en soi » proposed by N. Dodier.