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Orderly fashion : a sociology of markets
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ISBN: 1282569325 9786612569326 1400835186 9781400835188 6612569328 9780691141572 0691141576 9781282569324 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry. From retailers in Sweden and the United Kingdom to producers in India and Turkey, Patrik Aspers focuses on branded garment retailers--chains such as Gap, H&M, Old Navy, Topshop, and Zara. Aspers investigates these retailers' interactions and competition in the consumer market for fashion garments, traces connections between producer and consumer markets, and demonstrates why market order is best understood through an analysis of its different forms of social construction. Emphasizing consumption rather than production, Aspers considers the larger retailers' roles as buyers in the production market of garments, and as potential objects of investment in financial markets. He shows how markets overlap and intertwine and he defines two types of markets--status markets and standard markets. In status markets, market order is related to the identities of the participating actors more than the quality of the goods, whereas in standard markets the opposite holds true. Looking at how identities, products, and values create the ordered economic markets of the global fashion business, Orderly Fashion has wide implications for all modern markets, regardless of industry.

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Industrial sociology. --- Fashion merchandising --- Clothing trade --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Fashion marketing --- Merchandising --- Retail trade --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Fashion industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Economic sociology --- Industrial economics --- Advertising Costs. --- Advertising agency. --- Advertising campaign. --- Advertising. --- And Interest. --- Anti-fashion. --- Behalf. --- Benchmarking. --- Brand extension. --- Brand loyalty. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Clothing industry. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Comparative advantage. --- Competition (economics). --- Competition. --- Competitive advantage. --- Consulting firm. --- Consumer Goods. --- Consumer choice. --- Consumer network. --- Consumer. --- Counterfeit consumer goods. --- Creative work. --- Currency. --- Customer base. --- Customer. --- Designer. --- Developed country. --- Double auction. --- Economic cost. --- Economic sociology. --- Economics. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethical trade. --- Exchange of information. --- Fair value. --- Fashion editor. --- Fashion line. --- Fast fashion. --- Financial capital. --- Free trade. --- Fundamental analysis. --- Globalization. --- Glocalization. --- Grand theory. --- Haute couture. --- Identity management. --- In-House. --- Internationalization. --- Investor relations. --- Knowledge society. --- Lean manufacturing. --- Letter of credit. --- Liberalization. --- Marginal utility. --- Market (economics). --- Market segmentation. --- Marketing collateral. --- Marketing. --- Micromarketing. --- Neoclassical economics. --- No frills. --- Obsolescence. --- Organizational studies. --- Outlet store. --- Overproduction. --- Positioning (marketing). --- Price fixing. --- Price mechanism. --- Pricing. --- Product design. --- Product differentiation. --- Proposal (business). --- Protectionism. --- Purchasing power. --- Rational choice theory. --- Ready Made Garment. --- Reasonable person. --- Relationship marketing. --- Retail. --- Risk aversion. --- Scientific management. --- Search cost. --- Shopping. --- Social constructionism. --- Social structure. --- Speculation. --- Standardization. --- Stock exchange. --- Stock market. --- Supply chain. --- Technical analysis. --- Trade association. --- Utility. --- Utilization. --- Vendor. --- World Trade Organization.

Markets in fashion
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ISBN: 128028899X 9786610288991 0203023749 9780203023747 0415346193 9780415346191 9781134280766 1134280769 9781134280803 1134280807 9781134280810 1134280815 9780415511421 6610288992 Year: 2006 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such as advertising, modelling, art, music and more, can be viewed.The main thrust of this groundbreaking book, is in developing a theory for these cultural markets, characterized by insecurity, and where status and aesthetic diversity generate order and price differentiation. In these industrie


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Etnografiska metoder : att förstå och förklara samtiden
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ISBN: 9789147096152 Year: 2011 Publisher: Malmö : Liber,

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Uncertainty : Individual Problems and Public Solutions.
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ISBN: 0197752780 0197752764 0197752772 Year: 2024 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,

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In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Examining what people can and in fact do to reduce uncertainty, Aspers addresses the existential dimension of uncertainty, the collective efforts and socially produced outcomes that lead to reduced uncertainty, and the social order that results.


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Re-imagining economic sociology
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ISBN: 0191814059 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The purpose of this book is to explore new developments in the field of economic sociology. It contains cutting-edge theoretical discussions by some of the world's leading economic sociologists, with chapters on topics such as the economic convention, relational sociology, economic identity, economy and law, economic networks, and institutions.


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The worth of goods : valuation and pricing in the economy
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ISBN: 9780199594641 0199594643 0199594651 9780199594658 9786613348616 0191806765 1283348616 0191618683 9780191618680 9781283348614 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes a product valuable. Structured in three parts, it first examines value in the broader sense - moral values and how they are formed, and the relations between economic and non-economic values - discussing such matters as the value of an oil spill, the price of a scientific paper, value in ethical cons

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