Samenvatting
Samenvatting Appadurai - The Social Life of Things
- Instelling
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU)
Summary study book The Social Life of Things of (H1 en H2) - ISBN: 9781107384705 (7 pagina's.)
[Meer zien]Voorbeeld 1 van de 7 pagina's
Voorbeeld 1 van de 7 pagina's
In winkelwagengesponsord bericht van onze partner
Gekoppeld boek
Titel boek:
Auteur(s):
- Uitgave:
- ISBN:
- Druk:
2 beoordelingen
Door: mandyvanderpoel1995 • 5 jaar geleden
Door: joycegerardu • 7 jaar geleden
Voorbeeld van de inhoud
Samenvatting: Arjun Appadurai – The Social Life of ThingsCh 1 – Introduction: commodities and the politics of value (Appadurai)
Essay with two aims:
o Preview other essays in volume
o Propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in social life.
Economic exchange generates value, embodied in commodities.
By focussing on objects politics become the link between value and exchange.
This makes that objects, just like people, have social lives.
Commodities: objects of economic value.
Simmel: economic value: not a property of objects, but a judgement made by subjects.
o It’s not that objects are valuable, but objects that resist our desire become valuable.
o There is a space between desire and enjoyment, and the person who desires moves
somewhere in between, overcoming the distance through means of economic
exchange by which the value of objects is determined reciprocally.
o The desire for one object is fulfilled by sacrificing another that is desired by the other.
Economic value is not just value in general, but a definite sum of value that results from
commensuration, the exchange between sacrifice and gain.
o The demand for an object, as the basis for exchange, gives an object value.
Exchange is not a by-product of value, it is the source of value.
This book aims to explore the conditions under which economic objects circulate in different
regimes of value in space and time.
o This requires one to look beyond the Western assumption that every “thing” has a
label attached made up of “words” and often relates to attributions of them.
The spirit of commodity
In what does a commodities sociality exist?
o Marx (narrow): commodity: a product intended for exchange, as these emerge under
the institutional, psychological and economic conditions of capitalism.
o Marx (today): commodity: special kind of manufactured goods associated with
capitalism shaped after European organizational and technical forms.
o Marx (broad): commodity: an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies
human wants of some sort or another.
To become a commodity a product must be transferred to another, whom it
will serve as a use-value, by means of an exchange.
Even for Marx the economy was aimed purely at production, and evolutionary.
o Appadurai: commodity: any thing intended for exchange.
Things with a particular type of social potential, distinguishable from products,
objects, goods, artifacts and other things, in certain respects.
Exchange: the production of use value for others.
Barter: exchange of objects without reference to money and with maximum reduction of
social, cultural, political or personal transaction costs.
o Chapman: commodities should be kept separated from barter, since the former
assume the use of money objects, instead of using money as measure of equivalence.
o Appadurai: commodities and barter have a commonality of spirtits, since both have an
object-centered, impersonal and asocial nature.
This makes barter a special form of commodity exchange where money plays
an indirect role, which is something that almost all societies ever have known.
Gifts: opposed to the profit and calculated spirit of commodity circulation, linking things to
persons to embed the flow of things in the flow of social relations.
o Bourdieu: gifts are a particular form of commodity exchange where the ration contract
of self-interest is disguised and delayed in time.
Voordelen van het kopen van samenvattingen bij Stuvia op een rij:
Verzekerd van kwaliteit door reviews
Stuvia-klanten hebben meer dan 700.000 samenvattingen beoordeeld. Zo weet je zeker dat je de beste documenten koopt!
Snel en makkelijk kopen
Je betaalt supersnel en eenmalig met iDeal, creditcard of Stuvia-tegoed voor de samenvatting. Zonder lidmaatschap.
Focus op de essentie
Samenvattingen worden geschreven voor en door anderen. Daarom zijn de samenvattingen altijd betrouwbaar en actueel. Zo kom je snel tot de kern!
Veelgestelde vragen
Wat krijg ik als ik dit document koop?
Je krijgt een PDF, die direct beschikbaar is na je aankoop. Het gekochte document is altijd, overal en oneindig toegankelijk via je profiel.
Tevredenheidsgarantie: hoe werkt dat?
Onze tevredenheidsgarantie zorgt ervoor dat je altijd een studiedocument vindt dat goed bij je past. Je vult een formulier in en onze klantenservice regelt de rest.
Van wie koop ik deze samenvatting?
Stuvia is een marktplaats, je koop dit document dus niet van ons, maar van verkoper Azonata. Stuvia faciliteert de betaling aan de verkoper.
Zit ik meteen vast aan een abonnement?
Nee, je koopt alleen deze samenvatting voor €3,48. Je zit daarna nergens aan vast.
Is Stuvia te vertrouwen?
4,6 sterren op Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)
Afgelopen 30 dagen zijn er 53340 samenvattingen verkocht
Opgericht in 2010, al 14 jaar dé plek om samenvattingen te kopen