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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"economic sociology"”.
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Essays in the Economic Sociology of Inequality
Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between young people's happiness, self-perception and social interactions within the neighbourhood where they live. Using Understanding Society, we investigate how income neighbourhood deprivation impacts on youth happiness and social interactions. Using only …
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Essays on economic sociology of innovation and entrepreneurship
… and evaluated with the theoretical lens of economic sociology. The first chapter investigates who becomes an entrepreneur among the pool of general consumers. The process by which individuals become entrepreneurs is often described as a decisive moment of transition, yet it necessarily …
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Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter as precursors of economic sociology
… asked, are derived from modern explorations into Economic Sociology and are designed to place the works of Veblen and Schumpeter into that region of thought but this study should appeal to anyone interested in twentieth century economic thought. One of this study's major purposes is to fill a gap …
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
<p>Racial economic inequality is a major social concern in the United States. Sociological research on the issue has focused primarily on understanding disparities in the process of earning income and accumulating wealth. Much less clear, however, is what happens when individuals try to spend the …
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Why organizations matter: certification experiences of coffee producer groups in Guatemala
… that has implications for development studies, economic sociology, agrofood studies, and globalization. This dissertation concludes that the voices of the producers themselves are a forgotten key to providing organizations, whether of the producers themselves or the organizations that regulate …
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CONCEPTUALISING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ENGLISH FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
… It draws upon theories from political science, economic sociology and the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas to analyse these cross-sector transactions. In part one of the thesis, the context for the research is outlined and the rationale for a conceptual approach is explained. In part two, an …
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Talking about the poor: a critical discourse analysis of nonprofit website messaging on poverty
… of responses considered viable. JEL Codes: Z10 Economic Sociology, L31 Non-Profit Institutions, P16 Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State, and B52 Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory.
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Sensemaking in Investor Networks: The Interactions between Financial Market Participants and the European Central Bank
… studies, the social studies of finance and economic sociology, particularly with reference to networks. It shows the ways in which both monetary policy and investment decision-making is shaped by social processes of sensemaking in expert networks, and by highlighting the unintended …
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Accumulation model processes of human suborbital space transportation industry emergence
… Relevant streams of literature included economics, innovation, sociology, economic sociology, and institution theory. A functional goal innovation development theory, referred to as the accumulation model, states that many organizations, from both the public- and private-sectors, collect …
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LA FRAMMENTAZIONE DELL'ATTIVITA' IMPRENDITORIALE IN ITALIA: PROBLEMI, ESITI E SPIEGAZIONI A PARTIRE DA UNO STUDIO DI CASO
In spite of the postwar economic development seen in most industrialized countries, in Italy, small-scale firms have become hegemonic. The diffusion of most small firms arose during the “economic miracle” and has produced many micro production systems across the country. As small firms have …
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A Debt of One's Own
This thesis explores the disciplinary aspects of formal financial institutions, and in particular banks, upon population behavior. To that end, the political significance of banks is first traced throughout the European and American history of governmental concerns around the notion of financial …
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Working with your hands : essays on craft occupations in India
… Products in Southern India. Scholars of economic sociology have shown that sellers often vary prices among different buyers for short-term monetary gains or long-term relational gains, but they have failed to consider how sellers' relationship with their products can affect their …
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Povertà e deprivazione in Italia, Spagna, Francia e Germania: una disamina degli aspetti concettuali, metodologici e dei meccanismi generativi
… nation-states but that nonetheless show more economic, social and institutional similarities than those existing among different †̃areasâ€TM belonging to the same nation-state. In order to analyse the micro and macro determinants of poverty, I organized this thesis balancing both …
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The Meanings of New Money: Social Constructions of Value in the Rise of Digital Currencies
… that digital currencies pose to established economic models of the origins of money and value. Using a series of agent-based models (ABM) based on Bayesian updating agents, it shows how sociological models of value construction may be able to help solve this theoretical problem. Specifically, …
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A lack of security or a lack of capital? : acculturative conservatism in immigrant naming
Recent research on immigrant naming demonstrates a market tendency towards "acculturative conservatism," whereby immigrants select given names for their children that were highly popular in an earlier generation of the native population. Acculturative conservatism can potentially be explained as an …
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Bringing Society Back into the Theory of the Firm: the Adaptation of the Mondragon Cooperative Model in Valencia and Beyond
… the predominant theories of the firm in economics by demonstrating that the firm can only be properly understood if the importance of cooperation based on trust and loyalty, and the ability of the firm to achieve that cooperation by influencing the social foundations of behaviour, is …
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LONGING TO BELONG: IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
This dissertation consists of the first three papers in a stream of organization theory research inspired by the insight that humans are as motivated by identity self interest - or the "longing to belong" - as by instrumental self interest. The first paper (chapter 2) spells out this insight and …
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Examining Child Tax Credit Recipience and Use
The purpose of this study is to examine what factors predict who received monthly Child Tax Credit payments and how they were spent. In March of 2021, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Included in this bill was an expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC), a program providing tax relief …
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Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads of Criminal and Conventional
… 2010; Fourcade and Healy 2007; Zelizer 1979). Economic sociologists studying morally contested markets document how market actors actively work to construct new moral meanings of their activities and align their practices with these narratives (Chan 2009; Quinn 2008a; Turco 2012). However, much …
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