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Living in a material world : economic sociology meets science and technology studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Inside technology.
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Technology--Economic aspects.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality - the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects - as the theoretical point of convergence.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Introduction ; I - General Concerns: Economy, Materiality, Power; 1 - Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated Agencies; 2 - The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and Beyond; 3 - Command Performance: Exploring What STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market; II - Infrastructure ; 4 - The Finitist Accountant; 5 - Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the World
- 6 - The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between Universities and the MarketplaceIII - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market; 7 - Technology, Agency, and Financial Price Data; 8 - Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room; 9 - Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of Counterparts; IV - Technology, Economy, Use; 10 - Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated Coordination
- 11 - Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems12 - Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher Education; About the Authors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262281607
- 0262281600
- 9781435691858
- 1435691857
- OCLC:
- 310354443
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