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The Reality of Social Construction

By: Dave Elder-Vass

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The Reality of Social Construction

By: Dave Elder-Vass

Social construction' is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most commonly, it is seen as radically opposed to realist social theory. Dave Elder-Vass argues that social scientists should be both realists and social constructionists and that coherent versions of these ways of thinking are entirely compatible with each other. This book seeks to transform prevailing understandings of the relationship between realism and constructionism. It offers a thorough ontological analysis of the phenomena of language, discourse, culture and knowledge, and shows how this justifies a realist version of social constructionism. In doing so, however, it also develops an analysis of these phenomena that is significant in its own right.

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1107380081

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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

By: Dave Elder-Vass

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Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

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This book develops a new political economy, enabling us to see, understand and advocate a diverse economy beyond capitalism and socialism.

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1107146143

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Inventing Value

The Social Construction of Monetary Worth

By: Dave Elder-Vass

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Inventing Value

The Social Construction of Monetary Worth

By: Dave Elder-Vass

Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how they are formed, transformed and supported by the construction of new social structures. The empirical evidence comes from contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for so-called unicorn companies, and the rise of Bitcoin. The result is a theory that shows how value is invented by value entrepreneurs in pursuit of their interests and thus provides a new basis for criticising the role of value in the commodity economy and the finance sector.

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100919934X

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The Causal Power of Social Structures

Emergence, Structure and Agency

By: Dave Elder-Vass

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The Causal Power of Social Structures

Emergence, Structure and Agency

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The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions.

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1139488198

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The Reality of Social Construction

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Book's by Dave Elder-Vass

The Reality of Social Construction

The Reality of Social Construction

Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy

Inventing Value

Inventing Value

The Causal Power of Social Structures

The Causal Power of Social Structures

The Reality of Social Construction

The Reality of Social Construction

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