Ethics in the economy

"Wirtschaftssoziologen fehlt es an kohärenten Theorien darüber, wie ethische Kontroversen in der Wirtschaft aufkommen und welchen Einfluss ihr Management auf die organisatorische 'Performance' hat. Anhand formaler Ethikkodizes als disziplinierende Maßnahmen in Unternehmen, können wir ein vorläufiges Konzept von Ethik in Organisationen entwickeln und Hypothesen formulieren, wie Kodizes funktionieren. Daraus werden abschließend Überlegungen zu einem allgemeinen wirtschaftssoziologischen Forschungsprogramms für ethische Fragestellungen abgeleitet." (Autorenreferat)"Economic sociologists lack coherent theories concerning how ethical disputes arise within economic life, and what effects their management has on organizational performance. Using formal codes of ethics within firms as its disciplined focus, we can develop a preliminary conceptualization of ethics in organizations, a series of hypotheses about how codes work, and a preliminary sketch of a research program that follows from these principles." (author's abstract

Monétisation et vie sociale

La monétisation : un assèchement des relations humaines ?Quelques aspects de l’imaginaire littéraire de l’argentParis, en 1960, telle qu’elle était imaginée de manière plutôt sombre, un siècle plus tôt, par le jeune Jules Verne, est deve­nue une ville régulée par le pouvoir inexorable de l’argent et de la technologie : tout sentiment, tout honneur et toute imagina­tion y est broyé par l’efficacité des structures commerciales. Dans ce Paris futuriste – tel que le rend Paris au xxe siècle, le m..

Monétisation et vie sociale

La monétisation : un assèchement des relations humaines ?Quelques aspects de l’imaginaire littéraire de l’argentParis, en 1960, telle qu’elle était imaginée de manière plutôt sombre, un siècle plus tôt, par le jeune Jules Verne, est deve­nue une ville régulée par le pouvoir inexorable de l’argent et de la technologie : tout sentiment, tout honneur et toute imagina­tion y est broyé par l’efficacité des structures commerciales. Dans ce Paris futuriste – tel que le rend Paris au xxe siècle, le m..

Consumer credit default and collections: the shifting ontologies of market attachment

Existing accounts of consumer credit market making have done much to explore the business models, technologies and advertising practices of lenders, and the financial circumstances of borrowers. However, the space of interface between consumer credit debtor and debt collector remains underexplored. Drawing on interviews with debtors and an exposition of debt collections technologies, the paper demonstrates how this market domain, in seeking to prompt calculative engagement, depends on its ability to intersect successfully with the everyday lives of economic agents. Critically engaging with key currents emerging out of the “economization” programme, it builds on its attention to the socio-material mechanisms of market making. However, the paper argues that materially sensitive economic sociologies need to account more thoroughly for the place of affect in markets. This is particularly relevant when studying consumer markets, where exchanges routinely centre on intimate and embodied encounters between economic actors

Money, Love, and Fragile Reciprocity in Contemporary Havana, Cuba

Among low-income Havana residents, men frequently give money and other forms of material support to women in whom they have a romantic interest. For women, men's material contributions are expressions of responsibility and care. While men share this view to a degree, they sometimes have more ambiguous emotions regarding such practices. These tensions in different views of gendered reciprocity are influenced by large-scale changes that have taken place in Cuban society since the 1990s. Although, traditionally, state socialism has embraced ideas of gender egalitarianism and women's independent income, the post-Soviet period has seen the emergence of new inequalities, dependencies, and marginalizations that threaten earlier, socialist understandings of intimacy. The importance that women currently place on material wealth in terms of their views of a desirable partner highlights the gendered consequences of Cuba's contemporary economic transformations and their complex interplay with individuals' aspirations for love.Peer reviewe

Childhood in Sociology and Society: The US Perspective

The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article also profiles the institutional support of childhood research in the US, specifically outlining the activities of the ‘Children and Youth’ Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and assesses the contributions of this area of study for sociology as well as the implications for an interdisciplinary field.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline