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HUMAN ROUTERS: How Syrian Refugee Brokers Build the Infrastructure of Displacement
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 517-540, November 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Syrian refugees resort to a rich ecosystem of brokers who not only facilitate border crossings but also move remittances, jobs, knowledge, wives, and more. How are refugees' circulations made possible, and by whom? Drawing on fieldwork with Syrian brokers in Turkey and the United Kingdom, I put forward the novel concepts of a Syrian ...
ANN‐CHRISTIN ZUNTZ
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 145-162, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This article critically explores the complex and contradictory meanings attached to conspicuous consumption in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It examines why un(der)employed young people, especially young Black men, view the trappings of wealth in their midst and dismiss them as ‘fake’.
Hannah J. Dawson
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Dinheiro, poder e sexo Money, power, and sex
Cadernos Pagu, 2009 A crença generalizada de que o dinheiro corrompe a intimidade bloqueia nossa capacidade de descrever e explicar como dinheiro, poder, e sexo, de fato, interagem.
Viviana A. Zelizer
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Revue Interventions Économiques, 2006 Beyond the economic and business world, many specialists of the social sciences have taken the « cultural wave ». This wind of change however barely touched economic sociology.
Viviana A. Zelizer
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Intimidade negociada: a percepção dos cuidadores de idosos na perspectiva da economia do care
Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2017 The aim of this study is to understand the effects of monetary transactions in the relationship between elderly and their caregivers. From this purpose was conducted empirical research of qualitative character with stand-alone or linked to mental ...
Jandir Pauli +2 more
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Karl Polanyi, la Nouvelle sociologie économique et les forces du marché
Revue Interventions Économiques, 2008 This article shows how many authors of the New Economic Sociology tend to adopt an incomplete view of market forces. The author distinguishes two notions of embeddedness, one related to the institutionalist theories and the second to the observation of ...
Ronan Le Velly
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 169-181, June 2026.ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 491-506, May 2026.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of markets.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Breaking Down Social Capital: Urban Families' Use of Public Benefits
Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines whether social capital facilitates or dissuades urban families from taking up safety net programs. Using longitudinal data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we explore how various components of social capital—operating at relational, organizational, and neighborhood levels—are related to participation
Denia Garcia
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