Disembedded Markets: Economic Theology and Global Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9780367661168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 150 str.

Christoph Deutschmann

Opis

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalized capitalist markets, advancing the notion of ‘disembedded markets’ to challenge the idea of ‘social embeddedness’ common in economic sociology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Disembedded markets and society: Ambiguities in Polanyi’s analysis

3. Markets as a social system: The liberal narrative

4. Dimensions of disembedding

5. Religion as a self-representation of society

6. Modernity, capitalism and religion

7. Disembedding and the dilemma of self-representation of society

8. Markets as an ultimate social reality?

9. A multilevel model of capitalist dynamics

10. Conclusions

O autorze

Christoph Deutschmann is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Sociology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/M, at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center for Social Research in. His research interests and publications are in the fields of economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social theory.