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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.

Social structure. --- Causation. --- Structure sociale --- Causalité --- Causalité --- 316.3 --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- 316.3 Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Causation --- Social structure --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Sociological theories --- Social Sciences

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"Our economy is neither overwhelmingly capitalist, as Marxist political economists argue, nor overwhelmingly a market economy, as mainstream economists assume. Both approaches ignore vast swathes of the economy, including the gift, collaborative and hybrid forms that coexist with more conventional capitalism in the new digital economy. Drawing on economic sociology, anthropology of the gift and heterodox economics, this book proposes a ground-breaking framework for analysing diverse economic systems: a political economy of practices. The framework is used to analyse Apple, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook, showing how different complexes of appropriative practices bring about radically different economic outcomes. Innovative and topical, Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy focusses on an area of rapid social change while developing a theoretically and politically radical framework that will be of continuing long term relevance. It will appeal to students, activists and academics in the social sciences"--

Economics --- Information technology --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Economics. --- Sociological aspects. --- Economic aspects.

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Mit Ausbreitung der Digitalwirtschaft, die immer neue, innovative ökonomische Formen aufbietet, wird deutlich, dass die zwei idealtypischen Modellannahmen der marxistischen Tradition und der Mainstream-Ökonomie nicht mehr aufrechtzuerhalten sind. Anhand der Beispiele Apple, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube und Facebook zeigt Elder-Vass, dass es zahlreiche Variationen kapitalistischer Wirtschaftsformen gibt, und z.B. mit Wikipedia eine Form der Gabenökonomie entstanden ist, die sich kapitalistischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten entzieht. Elder-Vass entwirft ein Konzept der politischen Ökonomie der sozialen Praktiken und zugleich der moralischen Ökonomie. Damit entwickelt er einen theoretisch und politisch radikalen Rahmen für ein pluralistisches Verständnis ökonomischer Formen, der innovativ, aktuell und von langfristiger Relevanz ist.

Apple --- Digitalwirtschaft --- Facebook --- Gabenökonomie --- Google --- Marktwirtschaft --- neoliberal --- politische Ökonomie --- Ungleichheit --- Wikipedia --- YouTube