Concepts of Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Commodification of Social Life
Redaktion: Tittenbrun, Jacek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline-specifically the concept of "capital"-has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new concepts often have nothing left in common with their initial referents.

Here Jacek Tittenbrun offers a critical analysis of human, social, and cultural capital on the basis of their uses and misuses across a wide range of social sciences, simultaneously revealing the source of conceptual diffusion in the real world. He presents a two-pronged analysis of an intellectual fashion popular in the social sciences and offers a critical analysis of a range of concepts constructed around the common core of "capital." The analysis is innovative, as it is underpinned by a theoretical framework rooted in economic sociology and the concept of ownership in particular. The approach is one of the sociology of knowledge coupled with a substantive critique-application of the given concepts.

The volume reveals a range of processes in the real world that account for the conceptual diffusion. The general reader will be drawn to the discussion in the second half of the book, a study of a variety of relatable real life situations that illuminate privatization and commodification in our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351526951
• Artikelnr.: 49042729

Autorenporträt

Jacek Tittenbrun

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Ownership 2 Human Capital and Its Pioneering Labors 3 Social
Capital 4 Cultural Capital in the Sociology of Education 5 Cultural Capital
in the Sociology of Religion 6 Economists on Human and Social Capital 7
Economic Imperialism 8 The Economic Base of the Ideological Superstructure
9 Classic Accounts of the Nexus between Property, Capital, and Commodities
10 Modern Capital Accumulation; or, The New Enclosures 11 The Privatization
of Local and National Government 12 The Privatization of Public Space 13
The Commodification and Privatization of Higher Education 14 The
Commodification of Culture 15 The Commodification and Privatization of
Nature 16 The Commodification and Privatization of Knowledge and Biological
Life 17 The Commodification of Third-World Poverty 18 The Commodification
of Morality 19 The Commodification of Emotions 20 The Commodification of
Death 21 The Commodification of the Human Body 22 The Commodification of
Health Care 23 The Commodification of Sports 24 The Commodification of
Capital 25 The Privatization of the Cosmos 26 The Economy and Society 27
Memetics References Index