The Social Structures of the Economy (eBook)
180 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8165-8 (ISBN)
treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as
independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational
agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions
corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an
economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the
buying and selling of houses, to see that these abstract
assumptions cannot explain what happens in reality.
As Bourdieu shows, the market is constructed by the state, which
can decide, for example, whether to promote private housing or
collective provision. And the individuals involved in the
transaction are immersed in symbolic constructions which
constitute, in a strong sense, the value of houses, neighbourhoods
and towns.
The abstract and illusory nature of the assumptions of orthodox
economic theory has been criticised by some economists, but
Bourdieu argues that we must go further. Supply, demand, the market
and even the buyer and seller are products of a process of social
construction, and so-called 'economic' processes can be
adequately described only by calling on sociological methods.
Instead of seeing the two disciplines in antagonistic terms, it is
time to recognize that sociology and economics are in fact part of
a single discipline, the object of which is the analysis of social
facts, of which economic transactions are in the end merely one
aspect.
This brilliant study by the most original sociologist of
post-war France will be essential reading for students and scholars
of sociology, economics, anthropology and related disciplines.
Pierre Bourdieu was the Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France.
Introduction.
Part I The House Market.
Chapter 1 Dispositions of the Agents and the Structure of
the Field of Reproduction.
Chapter 2 -The State and the Construction of the
Market.
Chapter 3 - The Field of Local Powers.
Chapter 4 - A Contract under Duress.
Conclusion - The Foundations of Petit Bourgeois
Suffering.
Part II Principles of an Economic Anthropology.
Postscript - From the National to the International Field.
Notes.
Index.
"[T]he application of Bourdieu's ideas to the housing market is of
great interest and this book can contribute to the debates
surrounding alternative or complementary understandings of that
which is deemed 'economic', to the current hegemony of classical
economic approaches."
Housing Studies
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.3.2014 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
Schlagworte | Ãkonomische Soziologie • Gesellschaftstheorie • Ökonomische Soziologie • Social Theory • Sociology • Sociology of Economics • Soziologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-7456-8165-4 / 0745681654 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7456-8165-8 / 9780745681658 |
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