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Title Living in a material world : economic sociology meets science and technology studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Richard Swedberg.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 403 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Inside technology
Inside technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Economic markets and the rise of interactive agencements: from prosthetic agencies to habilitated agencies / Michel Callon -- Centrality of materiality: economic theorizing from Xenophon to home economics and beyond / Richard Swedberg -- Command performance: exploring what STS thinks it takes to build a market / Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah -- Finitist accountant / David Hatherly, David Leung, Donald MacKenzie -- Global financial technologies: scoping systems that raise the world / Karin Knorr Cetina, Barbara Grimpe -- Politics of patent law and its material effects: the changing relationship between universities and the marketplace / Elizabeth Popp Berman -- Technology, agency, and financial price data / Alex Preda -- Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room / Daniel Beunza, David Stark -- Trading-room telephones and the identification of counterparts / Fabian Muniesa -- Understanding and reframing the electronic consumption experience: the interactional ambiguities of mediated coordination / Christian Licoppe -- Six degrees of reputation: the use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems / Shay David, Trevor Pinch -- Transfer troubles: outsourcing information technology in higher education / Nicholas J. Rowland, Thomas F. Gieryn.
Summary This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality - the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects - as the theoretical point of convergence.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Technology -- Economic aspects.
Technology -- Economic aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pinch, Trevor, 1952-2021.
Swedberg, Richard.
Other Form: Print version: Living in a material world. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262162524 0262162520 (DLC) 2008018948 (OCoLC)216938366
ISBN 9780262281607 (electronic book)
0262281600 (electronic book)
9781435691858 (electronic book)
1435691857 (electronic book)
9780262162524 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0262162520 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780262662079 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0262662078 (paperback ; alkaline paper)