Results 21 to 30 of about 3,613 (158)
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
doaj +1 more source
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 ...
openaire +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Money from a cultural point of view [PDF]
, 2015 Comment on Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money.
Hart, John Keith
core +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 42-51, March 2026.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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source