Moral Markets

How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-59451-457-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the term "moral markets" signals a further development in the social evolution of markets. Market theories still widely in use today emerged in a society that no longer exists. Consumers were hardly in evidence at all in early theories of the market. Today, growing affluence, greater knowledge, and high-speed communication among consumers builds into the marketplace notions of fairness, solidarity, environment, health, and political considerations imbued with a long-term perspective that can disrupt short-term pursuits of the best buy. Importantly, such social goals, individual apprehensions, and modes of consumer conduct become inscribed today in products and services offered in the marketplace, as well as in the rules and regulations that govern market relations. Stehr uses examples to illustrate these trends and build new theory fitting today's changing consumerism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stehr, Nico

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Overview; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Moralization of Economic Affairs; Chapter 2 The Genealogy of Markets: Why Do Markets Exist?; Chapter 3 The Competition among Market Conceptions; Chapter 4 Markets as Sociocultural Practices; Chapter 5 The Foundations of the Moralization of the Markets; Chapter 6 The Dawn of Affluent Societies; Chapter 7 Knowledgeability and Economic Conduct; Chapter 8 Biotechnology, Environment, and the Market; Chapter 9 The Extension of the Moral Bases of Economic Conduct; Conclusions and Prospects;

Über Autor(innen)

Nico Stehr