Richard Swedberg " The Role of the Senses and Signs in the Economy : More on the Centrality of Materiality " 20 1 1
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This paper suggests that the sociological analysis of economic life may be improved by drawing on the theory of signs as developed by philosopher Charles Peirce. I take my point of departure from Georg Simmel’s essay “Sociology of the Senses” (1907) and raise the question if an economic sociology of the senses is possible and, if so, what it would look like. The different ways in which the senses are used in consumption and production are discussed. It is also argued that one can improve on Simmel’s notion of the way that social structure and the senses interact by drawing on the theory of signs in the work of Peirce. Especially three qualities of his semiotic are singled out as being particularly helpful: that the signs constitute an autonomous level, besides those of object and subject; that the actor simultaneously perceives the object and its sign; and that the object determines the sign (not the other way around, as is common in sociology).
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CSES Working Paper Series Paper # 30 Richard Swedberg The Centrality of Materiality : Economics and Technology from Xenophon and Onwards September 2005
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