Market Society
Markets and Modern Social Theory
1. Auflage November 2000
240 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Market Society provides an original and accessible review of
changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The
book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply
formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on
critical notions of social order, social action and social
relations. Examining a range of perspectives on the market from
across different social science disciplines, Market Society
surveys a complex field of ideas in a clear and comprehensive
manner. In this way it seeks to extend economic sociology beyond a
critique of mainstream economics, and to engage more broadly with
social, political and cultural theory.
The book explores historical approaches to the emergence of a
modern market society, as well as major approaches to the market
within modern economic theory and sociology. It addresses key
arguments in economic sociology and anthropology, the relation
between markets and states, and critical and cultural theories of
market rationality. It concludes with a discussion of markets and
culture in a late modern context.
This wide-ranging text will be of interest to undergraduate and
postgraduate students in sociology, economic theory and history,
politics, social and political theory, anthropology and cultural
studies.
Introduction.
1. The Emergence of Market Society.
2. Markets and Economic Order.
3. Rationality, The Individual and Social Order.
4. Markets and Social Structures.
5. States and Markets.
6. Commerce and Culture.
7.The Cultural Turn.
Conclusion: Markets versus Market Society.
Bibliography.
Index
of the nature and idea of markets and their effects on modern
social order and cultural change." Professor Alan Warde,
University of Manchester
"Slater and Tonkiss have written an incredibly stimulating and
plainspoken book about the most compelling subject in the world
today. Market Society is succinct yet comprehensive,
dissolving "the market" into manageable concepts and concrete
situations that will provoke both questions and many new ideas."
Professor Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University of
New York Graduate School
"Market society: Markets and Modern Social Theory will act as an
excellent introduction to this area for a variety of students and
their teachers. It is accessible without being simplistic, is well
written and covers an impressive amound of ground. It deserves to
find a place on many undergraduate and postgraduate courses on
work, economic life, consumption as well as wider modules on
political economy and social order." British Journal of
Sociology
Slater and Tonkiss have produced for social scientists the most
useful volume on markets that I have seen. ...The authors avoid
polemics but show that markets often provoke moral responses in
participants and observers"Stephen Gudeman, The Journal of The
Royal Anthropological Institute
