Economic sociology meets science

(BQ) In this book, an attempt is made to reconceptualize the meeting between the economy and technology with the help of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and economic sociology. Both of these approaches are relatively young and have developed new sets of ideas and concepts that have not yet been assimilated into mainstream social science. The theoretical point at which we suggest that economic and technological analysis may come together is in the idea of materiality, or the notion that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects.

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(BQ) Living in a material world: Economic sociology meets science and technology studies – Part 2, the following will be discussed in this part: Technology, agency, and financial price data; tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a wall street trading room; trading-room telephones and the identification of counterparts; understanding and reframing the electronic consumption experience: the interactional ambiguities of mediated coordination.

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Economics. The word conjures up all sorts of images: manic stock traders on Wall Street, an economic summit meeting in a European capital, a somber television news anchor announcing good or bad news about the economy. . . . You probably hear about economics several times each day. What exactly is economics? First, economics is a social science. It seeks to explain something about society, just like other social sciences, such as psychology, sociology, and political science.

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