How Did I Become a Historical Economic Sociologist? Viviana Zelizer in Conversation with José Ossandón

José Ossandón; Viviana Zelizer

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10132

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José Ossandón Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2927-1878
José Ossandón is Associate Professor in the Organization of Markets at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. His current collaborative efforts focus on two areas: the work and knowledge put in the organization of markets designed to deal with matters of collective concerns and the development of a pragmatist approach to the study the financial government of households. The special issue "Markets for Collective Concerns and their Failures" he co-edited recently came out in Economy & Society.
Viviana Zelizer Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Viviana A. Zelizer is Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing value of children, the place of money in social life and the economics of intimacy. She has also studied topics ranging from economic ethics to consumption practices. She is the author of the books Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (1979), Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985), The Social Meaning of Money (1994), The Purchase of Intimacy (2005). Her most recent book is Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (2017), co-edited with Nina Bandelj and Frederick Wherry, and a collection of her essays appears in Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy (2010).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10132

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Economic Sociology, Zelizer, Sociology of Money, Historical Methods, Gender

Abstract

In this interview, Viviana Zelizer discusses three dimensions that characterize her distinctive sociological approach to the economy. First, Zelizer explains how she made archival historical analysis her sociological method. Second, she talks about the relational character of her objects of study, namely moral controversies and commercial circuits. Third, Zelizer discusses the part played by gender politics in her work.

References

White, H.C. (2008). Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Zelizer, V. (1994). Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1985).

Zelizer, V. (1997). The Social Meaning of Money. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1994).

Zelizer, V. (2005). The Purchase of Intimacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Zelizer, V. (2011). Economic Lives. How Culture Shapes the Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Zelizer, V. (2017) Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. NYC: Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1979).

Zelizer, V., & Gaydosh, L. (2019). Class on Campus: How Students Manage Everyday Inequalities. Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 19. https://paw.princeton.edu/article/essay-class-campus

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