SOCY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contingent Work, Deindustrialization, Industrial Revolution
4 Oct 2018
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Economic sociology: the study of how the material conditions of life are produced and reproduced through social processes. The economy: the field of economic sociology can be separated into the sociology can be separated into the sociology of markets and the sociology consumption. The sociology of markets views markets as socially constructed areas where repeated exchanges occur between buyers and seller under a set of formal and informal rules governing relations between competitors, suppliers, and customs. Lifestyles can be constructed in emulation of other groups or instead by the competition between social groups for status: another aspect of consumption is how morals and meanings affect what goods can be bought and sold. Scholars have explored why some products can and cannot be commoditized and how that has evolved over time. What are some problematic aspects of our economy: potential economic social problems.
