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  • Uncertainty

    Individual Problems and Public Solutions

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Markets

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    Series series Economy and Society
    Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and anthropology, and systematically investigates the different forms of markets we encounter daily in our social lives.Aspers starts by ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Orderly Fashion

    A Sociology of Markets

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry. From retailers in Sweden and the United ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Markets in Fashion

    A phenomenological approach

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such as advertising, modelling, art, music and more, can be viewed.The main thrust of this groundbreaking ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Uncertainty

    Individual Problems and Public Solutions

    by Patrik Aspers ...
    Narrated by David Markus ...

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    In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Drawing on phenomenology, social constructionism, and the sociology of knowledge, Aspers considers the meaningful differences between uncertainty and risk, the different ways people cope and have coped with uncertainty through history, the importance of knowledge and science to reducing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy

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  • Getting a Job

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    This classic study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs not only proves "it's not what you know but who you know," but also demonstrates how social activity influences labor markets. Examining the link between job contacts and social structure, Granovetter recognizes networking as the crucial link between economists studies of labor mobility and more focused studies of an ... Read more

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  • Academic Capitalism

    Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence

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