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Viviana Zelizer, La signification sociale de l'argent

Lectures, 2006
Premier ouvrage de Viviana Zelizer traduit en francais, publie dans la collection Liber fondee par Pierre Bourdieu, La signification sociale de l'argent propose d'interroger la dimension sociale de la monnaie. A l'oppose a la fois des economistes orthodoxes qui l'envisagent comme etant socialement neutre, homogene, fongible et permettant l'action ...
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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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Money from a cultural point of view [PDF]

, 2015
Comment on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money.
Hart, John Keith
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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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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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2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociologists have long addressed the puzzles posed by dignity. In The Polish Peasant, families went out of their way to provide a decent burial for their loved ones, even when social workers and others schooled in financial literacy advised against it. In some communities suffering from fracking, those who arrived to advocate for environmental
Frederick F. Wherry
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Morals, Markets, and Medicine

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
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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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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Toward a relational sociology of credit:An exploration of the French literature [PDF]

, 2018
This article aims to describe the sociological studies of credit developed in France over the past dozen years. These studies propose a specific method and approach to address credit, primarily understanding it as a result of social interactions embedded
Lacan, Laure, Lazarus, Jeanne
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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
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