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- Aspers, Patrik, 1970-, et al.
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Trade shows and the creation of market and industry
- 2011
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In: Sociological Review. - : Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 59:4, s. 758-778
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study addresses the question of the constitution of markets in advanced societies.Specifically, the article studies the role of the traveling trade show in creatingthe real time computing market, which is part of the US electronics sector, duringthe mid-1990’s. Real time computing products assist the transfer, storage and processingof digital signals in real time and support many of the internet applicationswe use today.By applying ethnographic methods,we explore the general question ofhow economic actors cope with uncertainty in the phase of market-making and atthe cutting edge of technology. The paper makes two contributions to the existingliterature. First, it shows that the attempt to organize a trade show in real timecomputing was triggered by the uncertainty experienced by sellers regarding theidentity of prospective buyers and about the exact use to which they would put theemergent technology which is offered for sale. Secondly, we trace the history of anemergent market.We claim that trade shows for innovative products are importantvenues at which markets coalesce.The identification and ordering of market actors,the institutionalization of a distinct business culture and the social networks developedamong market actors and across the subsidiary markets provided the basicsocial infrastructure for what later became known as the real time computingindustry.
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- Holmberg, Tora, 1967-, et al.
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Imagination laboratory : making sense of bio-objects in contemporary genetic art
- 2016
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In: Sociological Review. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 64:3, s. 447-467
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Public engagement in biotechnology has declined as cloning, genetic engineering and regenerative medicine have become socially and culturally normalized. Zooming in on existing bio-technological debates, this article turns to contemporary genetic art as sites for ethical reflections. Art can be viewed as an ‘imagination laboratory’, a space through which un-framing and rupturing of contemporary rationalities are facilitated, and, in addition, enabling sense-making and offering fantastic connec- tions otherwise not articulated. In this article, the framework of ‘bio-objectification’ is enriched with Bennett’s (2001) notion of enchantment and the importance of wonder and openness to the unusual, in order to highlight alternative matters of concern than articulated through conventional politico-moral discourse. Drawing on a cultural sociological analysis of Eduardo Kac’s Edunia, Lucy Glendinning’s Feather Child, Patricia Piccinini’s Still Life with Stem Cells and Heather Dewey- Hagborg’s Stranger Visions, we discuss how the intermingling of art, science, critics, art historians, science fiction, internet, and physical space, produce a variety of at- tachments that this article will unpack. The article demonstrates that while some modern boundaries and rationalities are highlighted and challenged through the ‘imagination laboratory’ of the art process, others are left untouched.
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- Ivana, Greti-Iulia
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Fake it till you make it : imagined social capital
- 2017
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In: Sociological Review. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 65:1, s. 52-66
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social capital is one of the most widely used (in both scholarly and non-scholarly contexts) and one of the least critically examined concepts in Bourdieu's framework. This article aims at questioning the objectivist standpoint from which the concept of social capital has been developed, by looking into the interpretative processes which shape it. In doing so, it proposes a new understanding of the notion of imagined social capital, which has gained prominence in the literature of the last several years. The contribution of the current paper lays in elaborating on the ways in which the existing notion of imagined social capital can be put in dialogue with Bourdieu's work and in introducing the overlooked, yet fundamental question of otherness into the debate on imagined social capital.
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- Jerak-Zuiderent, Sonja
(author)
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Keeping open by re-imagining laughter and fear
- 2015
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In: Sociological Review. - : WILEY-BLACKWELL. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 63:4, s. 897-921
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Speaking to the debate on the nature of critique, this article is about the struggle to produce an account when listening to and retelling stories. It begins with the disconcertment over listening to a coherent story that emerges in interviews about the development of performance indicators for Dutch hospital care. The indicators are presented as solutions to the problem of unruliness in the healthcare world. Drawing on Helen Verrans work on generative critique I slow down the problem-solution-found plot. Instead of contrasting the apparently coherent stories with the complexities of an underlying practice of healthcare, I hold on to my initial disconcertment so that fleetingly subtle interruptions become entry points for generative critique. Taking Eduardo Viveiros de Castros understanding of the relation that fear and laughter have to alterity, I show how fear and laughter permit generative critique within seemingly coherent stories. In the case of indicator development, the interviewees laugh away what they consider alter from quality and safety in healthcare: having no control over what is going on, polyglotism instead of a common language, and inaction as opposed to taking ones time. Paying attention to disconcerting interruptions generates sensitivity and questions rather than yet another set of (critical) problem-solution-found answers. How can ridiculed (laughed away) subjectivity be acknowledged as important entry points for including alterity in supervision? And how to position the acknowledgement, not as an antidote, but as a way of rendering the fear of alterity generative? Nurturing sensitivities is crucial for keeping open, which means resisting both the sticky tendency of normalizing accounts and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. I conclude that keeping open by re-imagining critique resonates with the creativity of collective life in actual times and places. Thereby it offers a promising potential for doing worlds differently.
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- Lagerkvist, Amanda, 1970-
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Communicating the rhythms of retromodernity : ‘confused and mixed Shanghai’
- 2013
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In: Sociological Review. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 61, s. 144-161
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Visitors on sight-seeing tours in contemporary globalizing Shanghai observe the futuristic ambitions, exponential development and chaotic polyrhythmicity of New Shanghai. The nostalgia industry simultaneously ‘teleports’ the tourists on tours back to a time when Shanghai was a legendary world metropolis; the Golden Age of the inter-war era. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's critical rhythmanalysis, and by Jonathan Sterne's conceptualization of communication as organized movement and action, this paper explores bus tours by commission of the municipal government. Shanghai is the place where the movements of the buses, as well as the tourists on board, become part of communicating the place identity and multiple rhythms of the city. The buses are conceived as means of communication, in a twofold sense, and as both underscoring and binding together the many incommensurabilities of place: old and new, Western and Chinese, industrialism and post-industrialism, nationalism and globalism. The author argues that mobility, media modernity and a confounding mixture (reflexively manifested on the tour ‘Confused and Mixed Shanghai’) constitute a collective memory of the city, and that the buses in all their seeming banality, communicate Shanghai's particular rhythms of retromodernity.
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- Neuman, Nicklas, 1987-, et al.
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Masculinity and the sociality of cooking in men’s everyday lives
- 2017
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In: Sociological Review. - : Sage Publications. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 65:4, s. 816-831
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how 31 Swedish men (22–88 years old) talk about the sociality of domestic cooking in everyday life. We demonstrate how domestic cooking – for oneself, for others and with others – is part of the understanding of contemporary Swedish men and how the expressed sociality of cooking is intertwined with accomplishments of masculinity. The sociality of cooking is not only about homosocial leisure but also a way for men to maintain heterosocial relationships and assume domestic responsibility. We discuss a potential cultural transition in men's domestic meal sociality and suggest the need for studies of gendered divisions of domestic work and the sociology of food to analyse how cooking shares similar properties to those of commensality, and the implications of this regarding gender relations.
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- Redmalm, David
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Pet grief : When is non-human life grievable?
- 2015
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In: Sociological Review. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 63:1, s. 19-35
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study explores how pet owners grieve their pets and view their pets' transience. Drawing on Butler's notion of the differential allocation of grievability, I have analysed interviews with eighteen pet owners. Butler argues that grievability is made possible by a normative framework which allows for some human or human-like lives to be grieved, while other lives are rendered 'lose-able'. All the interviewed pet owners say that they are capable of grieving a non-human animal, but analysis suggests that they make their pets grievable and ungrievable by turns. I argue that by maintaining this ambivalence, the interviewees negotiate pets' inclusion in a human moral community while simultaneously defending human exceptionalism. The article concludes with a discussion of pet grief as a potentially destabilizing emotion. I suggest that grieving beings on the border between grievable human and lose-able animal - 'werewolves' according to Giorgio Agamben - may be a powerful way of challenging normative frameworks which arbitrarily render some human and non-human lives lose-able.
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- Hearn, Jeff
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A multi-faceted power analysis of mens violence to known women: from hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men
- 2012
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In: Sociological Review. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 60:4, s. 589-610
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article presents a multi-faceted power analysis of mens violence to known women, by way of assessing two main perspectives on research in men and masculinities: first, that founded on hegemonic masculinity, and, second, that based on the hegemony of men. Each perspective is interrogated in terms of understandings of mens violence to known women. These approaches are articulated in relation to empirical research, and conceptual and theoretical analysis. Thus this article addresses to what extent hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of men, respectively, are useful concepts for explaining and engaging with mens violence to known women? The article concludes with discussion of more general implications of this analysis.
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- Kjellberg, Hans
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The death of a salesman? Reconfiguring economic exchange in Swedish post-war food distribution
- 2007
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In: The Sociological Review (Keele). - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 1467-954X .- 0038-0261. ; 55:s2, s. 65-91
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How are economic orders established? Is there any point in singling out market exchange from other forms of exchange, or indeed, from social interaction at large? And if so, what is specific about markets? Is it the calculations that forego the transactions, or the type of transactions performed? This chapter addresses the close relationships between economic calculations, economic transactions, and economic agencies, all of which can be observed as part of economic ordering processes. This task will be accomplished through a detailed account of the introduction of the Hakon deal, a rationalization programme purporting to ‘economize’ the economic exchanges between a wholesaler, the Swedish firm Hakonbolaget, and its customers within the food retail trade in the late 1940s. The purpose of this programme was to realize a market without salesmen by introducing a mode of transacting based on written orders filled out by the retailers using a pre-printed goods catalogue. The account shows how the process of putting the new system into place was intimately connected to transformations in calculative practices. After presenting the empirical case, the chapter addresses three specific issues concerning the interrelation between calculative practices and economic organizing. First, I revisit the classic argument put forward by Coase concerning the transition between different economic orders. Based on the case, I argue that neither the available alternatives, nor the methods of calculating their respective benefits can be assumed at the outset of an inquiry into a process of economic organizing. Second, I critically assess the existing preoccupation with defining the market as a starting point for such (social scientific) inquiries. I argue that, despite appearances, the present case is not about de-marketization. Third, I discuss the practical shaping of calculative agencies, suggesting that there is a simultaneous paucity and abundance of such agencies, a paradox which is an important facet of the shaping of economic orders.
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