TY - GEN AU - Pierre-Michel Menger TI - Difference, Competition and Disproportion. The Sociology of Creative Work SN - 9782722604360 PY - 2016/// PB - Collège de France KW - scientific research KW - work KW - sociology KW - creativity KW - artistic creation KW - research KW - creation N1 - Open Access N2 - Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of individual inventiveness, the social ecology of creative work is what enables sociological analysis of work. Pierre-Menger’s analysis identifies three crucial characteristics: an unlimited differentiation of outputs, competiti UR - http://books.openedition.org/cdf/4300 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/45100 ER -