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Living in a material world : economic sociology meets science and technology studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside technologyPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 403 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262281607
  • 0262281600
  • 9781435691858
  • 1435691857
  • 0262162520
  • 9780262162524
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Living in a material world.DDC classification:
  • 306.301 22
LOC classification:
  • HM548 .L59 2008eb
Other classification:
  • 83.05
Online resources:
Contents:
Economic markets and the rise of interactive agencements: from prosthetic agencies to habilitated agencies / Michel Callon -- The centrality of materiality: economic theorizing from Xenophon to home economics and beyond / Richard Swedberg -- Command performance: exploring what STS thinks it takes to build a market / Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah -- The finitist accountant / David Hatherly, David Leung, Donald MacKenzie -- Global financial technologies: scoping systems that raise the world / Karin Knorr Cetina, Barbara Grimpe -- The politics of patent law and its material effects: the changing relationship between universities and the marketplace / Elizabeth Popp Berman -- Technology, agency, and financial price data / Alex Preda -- Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark -- Trading-room telephones and the identification of counterparts / Fabian Muniesa -- Understanding and reframing the electronic consumption experience: the interactional ambiguities of mediated coordination / Christian Licoppe -- Six degrees of reputation: the use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems / Shay David, Trevor Pinch -- Transfer troubles: outsourcing information technology in higher education / Nicholas J. Rowland, Thomas F. Gieryn.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economic markets and the rise of interactive agencements: from prosthetic agencies to habilitated agencies / Michel Callon -- The centrality of materiality: economic theorizing from Xenophon to home economics and beyond / Richard Swedberg -- Command performance: exploring what STS thinks it takes to build a market / Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah -- The finitist accountant / David Hatherly, David Leung, Donald MacKenzie -- Global financial technologies: scoping systems that raise the world / Karin Knorr Cetina, Barbara Grimpe -- The politics of patent law and its material effects: the changing relationship between universities and the marketplace / Elizabeth Popp Berman -- Technology, agency, and financial price data / Alex Preda -- Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark -- Trading-room telephones and the identification of counterparts / Fabian Muniesa -- Understanding and reframing the electronic consumption experience: the interactional ambiguities of mediated coordination / Christian Licoppe -- Six degrees of reputation: the use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems / Shay David, Trevor Pinch -- Transfer troubles: outsourcing information technology in higher education / Nicholas J. Rowland, Thomas F. Gieryn.

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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.

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