McFall / Cochoy / Deville Markets and the Arts of Attachment

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-44598-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: CRESC

The collection explores how sentiment and relations are organised in consumer markets. Social studies of economies and markets have much more to offer than simply adding some ‘context’, ‘culture’ or ‘soul’ to the analysis of economic practices. As this collection showcases, studying markets socially reveals how attachments between people and products are engineered and can explain how, and why, they fail. The contributors explore the tools and techniques used to work with sentiment, aesthetics and relationships through strategies including social media marketing, consumer research, algorithmic profiling, personal selling, and call centre and relationship management. The arts of attachment, as the various contributions demonstrate, play a crucial but often misunderstood role in the technical and organisational functioning of markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McFall, Liz

Cochoy, Franck

Deville, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Markets and the Arts of Attachment, (Liz McFall, Franck Cochoy, Joe Deville)

- From Social Ties to Socio-Economic Attachments: A Matter of Selection and Collection, (Franck Cochoy)

- Manufacturing the Consumer’s Truth: The Uses of Consumer Research in Advertising Inquiry, (Tomas Ariztia)

- Marketing and the Domestication of Social Media, (Kevin Mellet)

- Interfacing Attachments: The Multivalence of Brands, (Carolin Gerlitz)

- You are a Star Customer, Please Hold the Line…’: CRM and the Socio-Technical Inscriptions of Market Attachment, (Alexandre Mallard)

- The Market will Have you: The Arts of Market Attachment in a Digital Economy, (Liz McFall and Joe Deville)

- ‘My Story has no Strings Attached’: Credit Cards, Market Devices and a Stone Guest, (José Ossandón)

- From Market Relations to Romantic Ties: The Tests of Internet Dating, (Emmanuel Kessous)

- (Acquiring Associations: On the Unexpected Social Consequences of Possessive Relations, (Hans Kjellberg)

Afterword: The Devices of Attachment, (Michel Callon)

Über Autor(innen)

Franck Cochoy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a member of CERTOP-CNRS, France. He works in the field of economic sociology, with a focus on the human and technical mediations that frame the relationship between supply and demand. He has conducted several projects and case studies on such topics as the role of marketing, packaging, self-service, trade press, and so on. He recently published The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy with Liz McFall and Martin Giraudeau (eds.) (Routledge, 2014), On the Origins of Self-Service (Routledge, 2015) and On Curiosity, the Art of Market Seduction (Mattering Press, 2016).

Joe Deville is a Lecturer at Lancaster University, based jointly in the Departments of Organisation, Work & Technology and Sociology. A major focus of his work has been the encounter between defaulting consumer credit debtor and debt collector, which was the subject of his first book Lived Economies of Default, published by Routledge in 2015. Other areas of interest include disaster preparedness, comparative and digital methods, behavioural economics, and theories of money. He is an editor at Journal of Cultural Economy and a co-founder and editor of Mattering Press, an Open Access book publisher, and the online consumer studies research network Charisma.

Liz McFall is Head of Sociology at the Open University in the UK. She is currently researching how the convergences surrounding digital disruption and the current global wave of health care funding reforms are forging new roles for states, markets and marketing. Her book Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending (Routledge, 2014) argues that states and markets were inevitable if uneasy allies in the promotion of public welfare and consumption. Liz is author of Advertising: a cultural economy (2004), co-editor of The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy, Conduct: sociology and social worlds (2008) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cultural Economy.