Culture and Consumption

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana A. Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Common Mistake ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Shared Understandings

This chapter focuses on the intersections of culture and consumption. It takes up recent investigations of consumption outside of sociology; sociological studies of consumption, outside the claimed territory of economic sociology; and consequent challenges to economic sociology. Following those three points, it reviews three different sites of consumption—households, ethnic–racial communities, and retail settings—where extensive research has recently occurred, with an eye to better integration between economic sociology and empirical studies of consumption. It argues that although cultural variation plays a significant part in consumption, it is a common mistake to suppose that consumption forms a warm cultural island in a frigid economic sea. Shared understandings and their representations—the components of culture—undergird all of economic life, from e-commerce to sweatshops.

Sociological Analysis of Attitudes of Professional Growth and Career in the Context of Digital Economy and Knowledge Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
O. Ya. Gelikh ◽  
A. N. Levitskaya ◽  
N. N. Pokrovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Media

A sociological analysis of the factors of integration of young generations into active economic life is based on a study of the values of young people in relation to employment and professional growth. The information society has two key parameters that influence the construction of the trajectory of educational, professional, labor or entrepreneurial activity — the significant role of knowledge in creating value and the digital space as a source of information and the place for individuals to fulfill themselves in society and the social and professional community. A theoretical analysis of labor socialization allows researchers to move on to the results of empirical studies carried out with the participation of authors in 2017 and 2019-2020. The data obtained are evaluative in nature and allow authors to draw conclusions about the influence of the media space on young people entering working age taking decisions on choosing a profession and a form of economic activity, planning employment and career growth.

Sociologia, economia e politica economica

2009 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Carlo Trigilia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Public Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
Research Centres

- Economic sociology and economics have encouraged, since their intellectual origins, a different relationship with public economic policies and this diversity is still very much alive in today's debate. This is particularly true in the last decades, when economic sociology has developed strongly and when it get involved in public policy related issues. The paper argues that, with regard to public economic policies, the economic science has a stronger "influence" than economic sociology, despite the scant soundness of economic analysis would not justify it. At the same time, the paper goes on, today's influence of economic sociology on public economic policy has grown rapidly, especially because of the social and relational embeddeness of economic life. These opportunities will be exploited by economic sociology if few conditions will be realized: first, a closer attention to development and innovation issues is needed and, second, a stronger relationship with research centres and think tanks should be supported.Key words: economics and economic sociology, rethoric of economics, economic sociology and public policies, innovation, local development, embeddeness

scholarly journals Modern problems of the product market of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 09034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat’ayna Gorokhova ◽  
Lyudmila Pushkareva ◽  
Mikhail Pushkarev
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Food Market

Modern transformations in the economic life of society impose requirements on the reassessment of existing economic trends from the standpoint of the country’s economic security. In many regions of the country, the situation on the food market is far from ideal. A significant part of the food industry is controlled by transnational corporations, and modern own agricultural production does not cover the needs of the population for significant food products. This article reveals the development trends of the domestic food market. Particular attention is paid to the development of grain farming and the formation of the bread market.

scholarly journals Sino-African Encounters in Ghana and Nigeria: From Conflict to Conviviality and Mutual Benefit

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Lampert ◽  
Giles Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
Local Labour

China's renewed engagement with Africa is often framed as a form of imperialism, with the growing number of Chinese migrants on the continent seen as an exploitative presence. Such claims have generally been based on little evidence, and where more detailed empirical studies have emerged, they tend to emphasise the tensions and conflicts that have arisen. Our research on Chinese migrants in Ghana and Nigeria suggests that while there are concerns about Chinese competition in the informal retail sector and the treatment of local labour in Chinese enterprises, narratives of apparent tension and conflict are often much more nuanced than is generally recognised. Furthermore, more convivial and cooperative relations have also emerged and these have facilitated important opportunities for Africans to benefit from the Chinese presence. However, while the presence of Chinese migrants in African socio-economic life can be more integrated and mutually beneficial than is often assumed, the ability of African actors to benefit from this presence is highly uneven, placing the politics of class at the centre of any understanding of Sino-African encounters.

Becoming a Consumer of Care: Developing a Sociological Account of the ‘New Community Care’

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Baldock ◽  
Clare Ungerson
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Explanatory Account ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
New Community

The chapter evaluates the reformed arrangements for the management and delivery of social care following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 using a framework drawn from economic sociology. Research findings describing how a group of newly disabled older people fared as consumers of the services are summarized. An explanatory account is given drawing upon concepts and theory to be found in the growing literature on the sociology of economic life, particularly studies of consumption. The central conclusion is that it is difficult to account for the effects of the recent reforms on community care consumers without situating them within a context of existing social relations and institutions. If the reforms are to succeed they must change not just the practical mechanics of service funding and delivery but deeply embedded values and behavioural norms.

scholarly journals Sociological Studies Of International Academic Mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksim A. Yurevich ◽  
Vadim A. Malahov
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Technological Complex ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Sociological Studies

Academic mobility is a significant part of a scientist’s career both in the world’s leading scientific countries and in peripheral ones. The data of sociological surveys show that the main incentive to change the country of scientific employment in most cases is the desire to gain experience in international teams, to get under the care of eminent scientists, to expand scientific ties. Material incentives such as wages, social benefits or access to research funding tools usually rank middle in the hierarchy of motives to move in countries with a developed scientific and technological complex. In countries that can be considered lagging behind from this point of view, the picture is somewhat different-material goods play a more significant role. Regarding the representatives of the Russian scientific Diaspora, there are also mainly purely economic prerequisites for leaving abroad, and a fairly low proportion of the scientists who left Russia declared their desire to return. At the same time, remote cooperation with Russian researchers for scientists-compatriots is quite an attractive form of interaction.

scholarly journals Towards an Economic Sociology of Race

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hirschman ◽  
Laura Garbes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Colorblind Racism ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Award Winning

Race is central to economic life, but race is not central to economic sociology. We argue that economic sociologists should treat racism as a constitutive, structuring force, analytically co-equal with capitalism, patriarchy, and nationalism. Our article has three aims. First, we document how canonical and award-winning works of economic sociology do not discuss race and racism, and do not engage with the contemporary sociology of race. Second, we identify six key insights from the sociology of race and suggest how they could influence economic sociology: the emergence of race out of racism, an understanding of racism as structural, the role of whiteness, the intersections between racism and other systems of oppression, the ideology of colorblind racism, and the fundamental connections between racism and capitalism. Third, we conclude by discussing recent research that bridges the two subfields and lays the groundwork for an understanding of "racialized markets" and "racialized economies".

What about Other Kinds of Fiscal Stimulus?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Fiscal Stimulus ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Common Mistake ◽  
Stimulus Package

This chapter considers other fiscal stimulus programs that might be included with tax rebates in a fiscal stimulus package. The chapter begins with several fiscal stimulus programs that are recommended for inclusion. Then the chapter examines several other fiscal stimulus programs and explains why they are not recommended. Next it reviews and comments on components of the fiscal stimulus enacted in early 2009 and implemented in 2009 and 2010—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The chapter explains a common mistake made by many economists that leads them to multiplier estimates of fiscal stimulus programs that are too low. Finally, the chapter reports on and evaluates several empirical studies of fiscal stimulus programs utilized in the Great Recession.

scholarly journals Investment in education and the importance to invest in training in maritime sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Alessandro Figus
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Education System ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
University System ◽  
Good For

Abstract Empirical studies have shown that changes in levels of education explain a significant part of changes in income between countries. Many causes and phenomena can affect income. In this there is a “reverse causal link” that exists between the two sizes (countries with a higher GDP offer better educational services). Cuts to education certainly contribute to reducing the numerator of the two “cursed relations” - between deficit and GDP and between debt and GDP. Too often we forget that improving the educational and university system is an investment that in the long term can contribute to the increase of the denominator of these relationships, the GDP, making public finance more sustainable. Investing in the education system and in University is good for the economy, even for the transport sector, of course.

Labor Strategies of "Soviet Specialists" in the End of the 90-s: The Problem of Embeddedness of Economic Behavior

2004 ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
B. Gladarev
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia

In this article the labor behavior of representatives of mass trades of the Russian intelligentsia under conditions of the transforming economy is analyzed. Neoinstitutional concepts concerning social embeddedness of economic behavior have served as a theoretical framework for this work. The author tries to answer the question why a new configuration of rules of economic life has so weakly affected labor strategies of a significant part of "Soviet specialists" and has not resulted in total reorganization of the labor market. The research project "Organization of daily life and reproduction of social structure in Russia (the case of St. Petersburg)" is the empirical base for this article.

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