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Economic Sociology in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments book cover

1st Edition

Economic Sociology in Europe Recent Trends and Developments

Edited By Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel, Alberto Veira-Ramos Copyright 2024
276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe. Covering a range of case studies from different European countries and regions, the contributions analyse the effects of recent challenges such as the Corona Pandemic, the rise of economic nationalism, the functioning of illegal markets,... Read more

1. Introduction: Economic sociology in Europe – Current trends and future challenges

Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel and Alberto Veira-Ramos

Part I: Studies on Markets

2. Embedding authenticity in production logics. The case of the microbrewery resurgence in Belgium
Pauline Delperdange and Marc Zune

3. The power of digital platforms. What do darknet drug platforms have in common with platform giants?

Meropi Tzanetakis and Stefan Marx

4. Building trust by assembling signs of trustworthiness in illegalized exchanges: the case of the illegalized house cleaning market in Geneva

Loïc Pignolo

Part II: Studies on societal and political institutions

5. Beyond the gift/commodity binary: sustaining altruism in blood and plasma donation through alternative exchange systems

Sam Gorleer, Piet Bracke and Lesley Hustinx

6. New art foundations and public museums valuating artists in Paris. Competing strategies in an overlapping zone between the national and the international fields

Brianne Dubois

7. The moral economy of popular music consumption in post-2010 Hungary: everyday nationalism, familialism, and apoliticism

Emília Barna and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják

Part III: Studies on crises from an economic sociological perspective

8. The impact of social identity: how unemployment affects civic participation beyond financial strain

Carlotta Giustozzi

9. Changing economic imaginaries: making sense of consumption during the COVID-19 crisis

Ella Lillqvist and Päivi Timonen

10. Cultural entrepreneurship in times of change and crisis: self-employed Dutch artists during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sara Malou Strandvad, Nathalie Schram and Erik Gustafsson

Part IV: Advances in Economic Sociology in Europe

11. Economic sociology in Europe and North America: an exploration based on a systematic review of the literature

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas, Paula Espinosa-Soriano, José Luis Ortega and Matilde Massó

Biography

Andrea Maurer is Full Professor of Sociology at University of Trier, Germany. Sebastian Nessel is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Socioeconomics at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Alberto Veira Ramos is Tenured Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.

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