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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782605603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008
• ISBN: 0-262-28160-0; 1-4356-9185-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
• Collana: Inside technology
• Altri autori (Persone): PinchTrevor <1952->; SwedbergRichard
• Disciplina: 306.301
• Soggetti: Economics - Sociological aspects; Technology - Economic aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Introduction ; I - General Concerns: Economy, Materiality, Power; 1 - Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated Agencies; 2 - The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and Beyond; 3 - Command Performance: Exploring What STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market; II - Infrastructure ; 4 - The Finitist Accountant; 5 - Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the World; 6 - The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between Universities and the MarketplaceIII - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market; 7 - Technology, Agency, and Financial Price Data; 8 - Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room; 9 - Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of Counterparts; IV - Technology, Economy, Use; 10 - Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated Coordination; 11 - Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems12 - Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher Education; About the Authors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.