SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Viviana Zelizer
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Cat cafe, snuggling service, therapy, hired girlfriends, purchased and hired. Having a strong hold on something, having currency, power. Having strong hold and power over somebody. Even when intimacy being purchased still it has very strong hold, meaningful and powerful even it is commodified. Dichotomy of separate spheres between love and money. People like when love and money are separate. Relationship between money love and how it should not be mixed. Either it"s all about love or money. Nothing but money, there is no room for intimacy. Money doesn"t matter if you have love everything else figures out, monetary concerns are useless. Counterproductive and interconnectedness of money and love. How people create different intimate ties, whether it"s friendship, marriage. Compensation for labor by receiving cash, gift, economic exchange gives rise to different kind of intimate relationship. How people perceive money, whether as a gift, compensation. Tipping: we don"t tip doctors, dentists but we do tip waitresses (meaning that is attached)
