Go to http://www.johannes-angermuller.net download / télécharger / herunterladen Johannes Angermüller (2010): "Beyond excellence - an essay on the social organization of the social sciences and humanities", Sociologica 2010/3.   Abstract: Even though peer review is a widely used practice to assess research quality in the social sciences and humanities, little is known about how it is done and what it does. Against the background of Lamont's How Professors Think, it is argued that evaluation experts typically have recourse to a great deal of non-conceptual knowledge when they construct academic excellence. Therefore, the construction of excellence turns out to be deeply grounded in the social practices of the academic world. By placing peer review in the broader context of academic knowledge production, this essays points out the heterogeneity of research as a set of intertwined practices at the nexus of knowledge and power, following different logics, such as tribalization and stratification. Attention! The electronic version of this text may differ from the paper publication. If you want to use this text, make sure to cite it appropriately. Attention! La version électronique de ce texte peut différer de la publication en papier. Si vous voulez utilisez ce texte, n'oubliez pas à le citer comme il faut. Achtung! Die elektronische Version dieses Texts kann sich von der Papierversion unterscheiden. Wenn Sie diesen Text benutzen wollen, vergessen Sie nicht, ihn zu zitieren.