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Interpreting and Questioning Finance As Social Relationships
Interpreting and Questioning Finance As Social Relationships
Thursday, 19 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 104A (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC02 Economy and Society (host committee) Language: English
Sociologists frequently understand finance in essentialist terms—as the creation and brokerage of capital. However, in light of growing interest in relational and transactional approaches to sociology, this session collects together theoretically-driven empirical research that investigates finance as social relationships, as well as papers that directly refute this framing. Fieldwork includes online platform lending in India; institutional investors and multinational corporations' relations with one another in shareholder engagement; insurance companies' interpretation of risk using gender categories; U.S. household strategies to use formal finance to limit their support of kin; and informal income-sharing arrangements as relational work among formal sector workers in Côte d’Ivoire. Together these papers present the opportunity to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of prioritizing relations and relational work in empirical research on finance.
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