Living in a Material World Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Trevor Pinch, Richard Swedberg0262162520, 978-0-262-16252-4, 978-0-262-66207-9

Table of contents :
Contents
……Page 6
Introduction
……Page 10
I – General Concerns: Economy, Materiality,
Power……Page 36
1 – Economic Markets and the Rise of Interactive Agencements: From Prosthetic Agencies to Habilitated
Agencies……Page 38
2 – The Centrality of Materiality: Economic Theorizing from Xenophon to Home Economics and
Beyond……Page 66
3 – Command Performance: Exploring What
STS Thinks It Takes to Build a Market……Page 98
II – Infrastructure
……Page 138
4 – The Finitist
Accountant……Page 140
5 – Global Financial Technologies: Scoping Systems That Raise the
World……Page 170
6 – The Politics of Patent Law and Its Material Effects: The Changing Relationship between
Universities and the Marketplace……Page 200
III – Technology and the
Material Arrangements of the Market……Page 224
7 – Technology, Agency, and Financial Price
Data……Page 226
8 – Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading
Room……Page 262
9 – Trading-Room Telephones and the Identification of
Counterparts……Page 300
IV – Technology, Economy,
Use……Page 324
10 – Understanding and Reframing the Electronic Consumption Experience: The Interactional Ambiguities of Mediated
Coordination……Page 326
11 – Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation
Systems……Page 350
12 – Transfer Troubles: Outsourcing Information Technology in Higher
Education……Page 384
About the
Authors……Page 402
Index……Page 404
Series List
……Page 410