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This study explores the phenomenon of digital-social construction in the form of anonymous transactions, asymmetric information, and unlimited access in online marketplace. The study was conducted by processing digital data of 5131 comments, descriptions, and rating records of 1988 IDs of functional food products sold at Bukalapak, one of the largest marketplaces in Indonesia. Using Python and Google Studio software, digital-social interactions are mapped and visualized based on four conceptual frameworks of economic sociology, namely social embeddedness of market, product standardization, intersubjective construction of symbolic value, and willingness to pay. This study marks a new chapter in the study of contemporary economic sociology, in which conventional conceptual frameworks are applied to uncover digital market phenomena using research methods that fully process and analyze big data in the business field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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How do we imagine economic objects, processes, and actions? More importantly, if the future is inherently uncertain what limits the range of possible imaginings such that actors can agree and coordinate? Building on the work of Jens Beckert, I outline an approach to imagination and imaginative labor in economic sociology grounded on the insight that embodied cognition is central to the capacity for exploring possibilities for action and organizing abstract domains. To demonstrate this approach, I build on the use of metaphor analysis in sociology, cognitive anthropology, and cognitive linguistics to analyze a field whose fictional expectations have a significant impact on the global political economy: elite professional advisory firms. This is a field in the business of selling imaginative labor, both within the backstage work of recruiting and the frontstage work of selling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study focuses on the relation of economic inequality and political democracy, specifically exploring the democratic consequences of income concentration. It places income concentration among a composite of factors of democracy and considers democracy within a set of results of economic inequality. The study first surveys how the relationship of income and other economic inequality to democracy is theorized and researched in sociology and economics. It then outlines a conceptual framework for analyzing economic inequality's relationship with and especially net balance of consequences for democracy. It collects and analyzes cross-national data by empirical analyses and reports and discusses the results. Its key result is that income inequality is consequential mostly in an adverse way for political democracy and social freedom. The article's intended contribution is to better understanding and explaining the relations of economic inequality to democracy among contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most promising perspectives for a transdisciplinary dialogue between economics and sociology may be identified in the sub-disciplinary fields of evolutionary economics and economic sociology. Both share a common intellectual legacy in the differentiation of the social sciences. The economic and sociological work of Joseph Schumpeter provides an outstanding point of cross-disciplinary transgression and reintegration. In this context, this article claims that it is a curious fact that the role of technological and organizational innovation as a driving force of capitalist evolution characterized by disruptive change has become the paradigmatic foundation of related debates in evolutionary economics, but not in economic sociology. Of course, in economic sociology, technological change has been repeatedly covered regarding the social structures and network relations underpinning technological change in various settings of organizations, industries, markets and spaces. Yet the phenomenon of the introduction of novelty as such, drawing on constellations of power and domination in the context of radical uncertainty, enforcing the disruption and reconfiguration of social relations has remained rather underrepresented in the major strands of sociological reasoning on economic affairs. This assessment holds especially for neo-institutionalist reasoning, which emphasizes the drive towards stability in industries and markets, and therefore underestimates the actual characteristic of capitalism an innovation-driven system of persistently radical changes. Elaborating on this concern, this article outlines the basic relationship between evolutionary economics and economic sociology as point of departure for presenting the evolutionary approach to innovation as a promising concept for future reasoning in economic sociology. In conclusion, this implies that bringing innovation back into economic sociology implies a revitalization of Schumpeterian positions while entering a transdisciplinary dialogue with current advances in evolutionary economics and related fields of innovation studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of signs in the functioning of the contemporary economy has tended to be doubly underestimated by sociologists, by being restricted to the sphere of consumption on one hand, and to instituted signs on the other. Peirce’s concepts, and in particular that which refers to the contextualized evolution of a sign (semiosis), can remedy this situation by enriching the sociology of markets. Coordination between buyers and sellers is based on a process of transmission and reception of different types of signs: some are stabilized and the interpretation ‘flows naturally’ – these are the conventions well identified by economic sociologists – while others are more ambiguous and leave a great deal of room for indeterminacy. In the latter case, the concept of semiosis makes it possible to finely identify the techniques used by actors to buy or sell in situations of uncertainty. After presenting Peirce’s conceptual architecture, this article illustrates the interest of such an import from a case study centered on the role of stock market indices in the functioning of contemporary financial markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we show how interpretive battles about compliance can lead to regulatory differentiation and, in turn, market segmentation. To do so, we study the evolution of unsecured lending in the United States, between 1900 and 1945. In the early 20th century, a large segment of the workforce relied on their wages to access credit: this required the "legal coding" of labor income into capital, where lenders would offer advances in exchange for a lien over future revenues. Regulating these transactions raised conflicts between Progressive reformers, lenders and, after 1929, federal regulators, which spanned over five decades. The historical comparison of three states—Illinois, New York and Georgia—, shows that local discussions revolved around three outcomes—legal status, pricing method and collateralization—, the issue of which led to distinct regulatory paths and market configurations at the state level. Finally, the New Deal policies created an additional strand of federal coding, furthering market divides between unregulated payday lenders, non-bank credit companies, and commercial banks. On financial markets, discussions about compliance often revolve around calculative technologies, and we suggest this as a possible crossing point between STS analyses of capitalization devices and Pistor's theory of capital modulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Moralised markets are often referred to as ethical consumption markets. They are supposed to relieve a source of major distress in capitalist societies: the conflict between morality and economy. But under what conditions do these markets grow, and when do they stagnate? Deviating from the dominant focus on external constraints, this article emphasises the intrinsic ambivalence of moralised markets. Being caught between moral and economic exigencies becomes an obstacle for market growth. The article addresses ‘unravelling ambivalence’ on two levels. First, a field-theoretical framework is used to unravel the concept of ambivalence. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu, the article proposes introducing ambivalence as an analytical category in economic sociology. Second, a historic study based on correspondence analysis depicts the development of the German organic milk market. What distinguishes growth from stagnation is the degree of ambivalence within this market. Only if opposition is mitigated and ambivalence unravels into a more pluralistic field structure does the transition from niche to mass market become viable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La construction d’une sélection animale moderne, à la suite de la Loi sur l’élevage de 1966, s’est traduite par des configurations sociotechniques variées combinant innovations génétiques, formes organisationnelles de la sélection et valorisation des produits animaux. L’étude comparée présentée ici sur trois filières animales distinctes (bovins, volailles, porcs) explicite les liens entre le type biologique de l’animal, les modèles et outils qui permettent d’en améliorer la performance et les modes d’organisation de la sélection animale. L’analyse met ainsi en évidence les types de couplage qui ont pu historiquement se constituer entre les caractéristiques propres à chaque espèce, les processus de production des connaissances génétiques associés et les formes d’organisation collective dans chacune des filières concernées. Elle constitue ainsi un cas d’école des interactions mutuelles entre la nature des objets scientifiques ou techniques considérés (ici l’animal de rente) et le cadre cognitif et normatif de la production et de la diffusion des connaissances (ici en sélection génétique).

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Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing system involves challenges with cost, where many universities are forced to cancel journal subscriptions for economic reasons, as well as access, as scholars and the public alike often lack access to research published in paywalled subscription journals. Open Access publishing solves access problems, but not necessarily cost problems. Universities and researchers are currently in a challenging, interstitial stage of scholarly publishing. Subscription journals still dominate scholarly communication, but a growing imperative to fund and support Open Access alternatives has recently emerged. Stakeholders including faculty, university administrators, publishers, students, scientific funding institutions and librarians and governments alike currently strategize and compete for their professional and economic interests in the broader publishing system. Four main trends are proffered that will characterize the future of scholarly publishing: 1) antagonism with professional scholarly associations; 2) changes and innovations to peer review; 3) Scientific/Intellectual Movements around Open Access publishing and 4) new professional niches in the publishing landscape. This article suggests potential trajectories and outcomes for these various conflicts over the costs and benefits of academic publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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