The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
M.-F. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

Legal Disintegration and a Theory of the State

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-205
Author(s):  
William H. Clune
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Component Part ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
The Social

This paper describes a topology of legal thought and the social conditions (the larger social construction of reality) of which that topology, that thought, is a component. Part I is a description of the structure of legal thought; Part II of the social conditions (a theory of the state, or political economy). The Conclusion considers the place of traditional legal practice on a new landscape.

scholarly journals W. STARK, J. M. KEYNES, AND THE MERCANTILISTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Constantinos Repapis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of

In this paper we investigate Werner Stark’s sociology of knowledge approach in the history of economic thought. This paper explores: 1) the strengths and weaknesses of Stark’s approach to historiography, 2) how this can frame an understanding of mercantilist writings, and 3) the development of a link between a pluralist understanding of economics and the sociology of knowledge approach. The reason for developing this link is to extend the sociology of knowledge approach to encompass a pluralist understanding of economic theorizing and, at the same time, clarify the link between context and economic theory. John Maynard Keynes’s practice of building narratives of intellectual traditions as evidenced in The General Theory is used to develop a position between an understanding of history of economic thought as the evolution of abstract and decontextualized economic theorizing and the view of economic theory as relevant only within the social conditions from which it arose.

scholarly journals Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-184
Author(s):  
Sandro Serpa ◽  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Scientific Representation ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
The Social

Abstract Sociology is a science with specificities and which can potentially offer a more rigorous knowledge about reality. The goal of this position paper is, by means of a thorough literature review, to contribute to demonstrating the urgency of using a sociological stance in a more complete understanding of the social, as well as of Sociology itself as a science. It is concluded that Sociology, a multi-paradigmatic science, seeks to articulate macro-social dynamics with local processes, allowing to connect the subjective significances with the practices, and which focus on the articulations between systems and actors, between structures and practices, between the reality of the social conditions of existence, and the social construction of reality. As an implication, Sociology as a scientific representation and practice of the social, can be cumbersome by helping to dismantle commonly shared preconceived ideas about the instituted social order.

Problems of Theory and Measurement

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bulmer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Statistics

Social indicators have not fulfilled their promise, or at least have not lived up to the expectations held of them in the late 1950s and 1960s. Despite the continued growth of social statistics, produced both by governments and other organisations, the aim of producing precise, concise and evaluatively neutral measures of the state of society and of change in society has apparently eluded some of the best minds of the social science and governmental statistics communities. Whereas a wide range of economic indicators and data are readily available, if not without their problems (cf. Johnson, 1988), and integrated into the concepts of economic theory, standard measures of crime, health, well-being, education and many other social characteristics have proven much more difficult to construct and establish as standard yardsticks of social conditions. This note considers some of the reasons for these difficulties. It relates specifically to the aspiration to construct social indicators, not to social statistics more generally (as reviewed in, for example, Carley, 1981).

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AUTONOMY: A MOTIVATIONAL MODEL

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niza Yanay
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Motivational Theory ◽  
Analytic Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Motivational Model ◽  
Constructed Self

This paper argues for a pluralistic, experientially constructed self-concept of autonomy that is embodied in self-feelings and is motivationally defined. Such a motivational model of autonomy is proposed in place of the commonly accepted personality-based model, grounded in the analytic tradition in psychology. Using the self-concept approach of the interpretative school as a springboard, the paper reconceptualizes autonomy as constructed within specific social conditions. On the basis of female experience, autonomy is conceived of as a self-authoring experience emanating from the struggle to meet one's needs and achieve one's significant goals. The notions of struggle and significant goals are suggested as key concepts viable for a motivational theory of autonomy.

Moral Panics and the Social Construction of Deviant Behavior: A Theory and Application to the Case of Ritual Child Abuse

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Victor
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
The Social

The objective of the article is to develop a theory of the causes and transmission of moral panics. The theory is designed to explain forms of collective behavior, previously labeled panics, scares and persecutions. Part one of this article presents criteria for the identification of moral panics. Part two of the article offers models for analyzing the social conditions, which cause moral panics and lead to the social construction of definitions of deviance. Finally, part three examines the social processes by which moral panics are transmitted between different societies. In order to illustrate the theoretical analysis, the article presents information about the current moral panic involving criminal accusations of ritual child abuse by secret, satanic cults.

scholarly journals The Writing of the History of Science from the Notion of Scientific Field

2020 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Ivã Gurgel ◽  
Graciella Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Does science depend on its historical context? Does understanding science as a social construction demand us to abandon rationalist perspectives of knowledge? Based on these issues, this article aims to discuss epistemological questions concerning the problem of the historicity of sciences. In first part, we analyze how different philosophical systems conceptualize this problem and point out to tensions that emerge when one tries to reconcile a rationalist with a historicist perspective of knowledge. Then, we discuss the sociological epistemology of Pierre Bourdieu arguing that the field autonomy is a key concept to understand what the author denominates the “social conditions of the progress of reason”. Finally, we present criteria to delimit the most relevant contexts in a case study on the history of science.

scholarly journals W. Stark, J.M. Keynes and the Mercantilists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantinos Repapis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of

In this paper we investigate Werner Stark’s sociology of knowledge approach in the history of economic thought. This paper explores: 1) The strengths and weaknesses of Stark’s approach to historiography, 2) seeing how this can frame an understanding of mercantilist writings and, 3) develop a link between a pluralist understanding of economics, and the sociology of knowledge approach. The reason for developing this link is to extend the sociology of knowledge approach to encompass a pluralist understanding of economic theorising and, at the same time, clarify the link between context and economic theory. John Maynard Keynes’ practice of building narratives of intellectual traditions as evidenced in The General Theory is used to develop a position between an understanding of history of economic thought as the evolution of abstract and de-contextualized economic theorising and, the view of economic theory as only relevant within the social conditions from which it arose.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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