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Gender Syllabus MARKETS AND INEQUALITIES: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH Departments of Gender Studies and Sociology and Social Anthropology Central European University, Fall 2016 Times: Mondays and Fridays 9 – 10:40 a.m. Location: Z412 Instructor: Ashley Mears Email: [email protected] Office: Office hours: Mondays 12 - 2 and by appointment Course Description This course examines developments in the vibrant field of “new” economic sociology, and first outlines how gender and culture operate as influences on markets, such as how markets are constrained by networks, norms, and social ties on economic exchange. We next consider markets as cultural formations in their own right first by studying particular discourses and practices that sustain market relationship; next by examining the commodification of ambiguous commodities like bodies and sex. Having established the interdependencies between culture and commerce, we examine how social processes produce inequalities in markets with case studies of multiple commercial sites, from luxury shopping to the labor market. Ultimately, the course shows how in all areas of economic life people are creating, maintaining, symbolizing, and transforming meaningful social relations, in the process reproducing intersecting inequalities of gender, race, and class. Learning Outcomes This course (1) provides students with an overview of the key debates, theoretical cannons and research agendas in the sociology of gender and economic sociology and (2) prepares students for doing their own research. By the end of the semester, you will have completed an original empirical research paper, have a grasp of the field and an understanding of how to do intersectional research in economic sociology. Course Materials: All readings are available on the course websites site or through the CEU library online databases. Course Assessment Assessment of your mastery of the course materials is based on my evaluation of your participation in and contribution to the seminar discussions (30%), in-class presentations (30%), and a research paper based on original empirical research (40%). Participation (30%): You are expected to complete the day’s readings, think about them, and prepare questions and comments before coming to class. You are assessed each class session on the basis of your contribution to the discussion and your understanding of the material. Your final grade will be affected if you miss more than two sessions. Summaries (15%): Each student presents two 5-minute summaries of the key ideas from the previous class, along with a short document (posted on the course website before the day’s session). Students may edit the uploaded material, and add what they find important. This will produce a collectively assembled set of notes from the class material. 2 Presentations (15%): Each session, two students will lead the course discussion of the readings, covering key points, areas of confusion or contention, and thought-provoking questions. This will help you develop critical reading and presentation skills, and give you the opportunity to frame the day’s discussion. When planning your discussion of the readings, consider addressing: a. what question is addressed by the author(s) and why is it worth asking? b. what are competing answers to that question? c. how well does the author address that question, in terms of logic and methodology? d. what would be a different, useful way of addressing the same question, preferably one you regard as superior? We will assign summaries and presentations on the first day. Research Paper (40%): Each student will complete a paper based on original qualitative research. The paper will be based on a set of in-depth interviews (about 3-5), participant observation, or an analysis of published texts or images on a topic of your choice related to the course. It should be about 10-15 double spaced pages. Papers are due on Fri Dec 16th; late papers are not accepted. We will workshop your paper ideas and progress throughout the semester in class. Paper proposals are due on Fri Oct 21st and a draft with preliminary findings is due Monday Dec 5th for a class workshop on Friday Dec 9th. We will assign discussants for each student’s preliminary paper the week of Dec. 5th. COURSE SCHEDULE AND READINGS Session 1, Monday Sept 19: Introductions PART ONE: WHAT IS A MARKET? Session 2, Friday Sept 23: Orientation Michael Sandel, 2012. “What Isn’t for Sale?” The Atlantic, pp. 1 – 9. Viviana Zelizer, 2006. “Do Markets Poison Intimacy?” Contexts May, pp. 33-38. England, Paula, and Folbre, Nancy, 2005. “Gender and Economic Sociology.” In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 627- 649. Princeton University Press. Recommended Viviana Zelizer, 2012. “How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?” Politics & Society, June vol. 40, 2: pp. 145-174. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation. 3 Paul DiMaggio, 2005. “Culture and Economy” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 27 – 57. Kenneth Arrow, 1998. What has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination? The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(2), 91-100. Session 3, Monday Sept 26: Embeddedness Mark Granovetter, 1995 [1974]. Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers. University of Chicago Press. Introduction, pp. 3-22; Chapters 2 and 3, pp. 41-62. Steve McDonald, Jacob C. Day. 2010. “Race, Gender, and the Invisible Hand of Social Capital.” Sociology Compass 4(7): 532–543. Recommended Gretta Kripner, 2001. “The elusive market: Embeddedness and the paradigm of economic sociology.” Theory and Society 30: 775-810. Ron S. Burt, 1982. “The Gender of Social Capital.” Rationality and Society 10: 5-46. Granovetter, Mark, 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology 91(3), 481-510. Sandra Smith, 2000. “Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities.” The Sociological Quarterly 41(4):509-537. Session 4, Friday Sept 30, Culture Zelizer, 2011. Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy. Princeton University Press. “Introduction” and Part 1, Chapters 2 &3, “The Price and Value of Children” and “Baby Farms” pp 40 – 72. Pierre Bourdieu. 1986. “The Forms of Capital.” Pp. 241-58 in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by J. G. Richardson. New York, Greenwood Press. Recommended Zelizer, “Circuits within Capitalism.” 2005, in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, Princeton University Press, pp. 289-322. http://www.socpol.unimi.it/papers/2009-06-26_Viviana%20Zelizer%20.pdf England, Paula, and Folbre, Nancy, 2005. “Gender and Economic Sociology.” In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 627- 649. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/publications/docs/workingpapers/2003/IPR-WP-03- 14.pdf Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers, 2011. The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy. Introduction. Oxford University Press. Charles Smith, “Auctions: From Walras to the Real World,” in Explorations in Economic Sociology, edited by Richard Swedberg. Russell Sage Foundation, 1993, pp. 176-192. Zelizer, 1978. “Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in Nineteenth-Century America.” American Journal of Sociology Vol. 84(3): 591-610. 4 Session 5, Mon Oct 3, Circuits of Commerce Viviana Zelizer, 2006. “Money, Power, and Sex,” 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 303. Danielle J. Lindemann, 2010. “Will the Real Dominatrix Please Stand up: Artistic Purity and Professionalism in the S&M Dungeon.” Sociological Forum 25, 3: 588-606 Recommended Viviana Zelizer, 2001. "Sociology of Money," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 15: 9991-4. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Nigel Dodd, “Reinventing Monies in Europe,” Economy and Society 34 (2005): 558- 83. Simone Polillo, “Money, Moral Authority, and the Politics of Creditworthiness,” American Sociological Review 76 (June 2011): 1-28. Session 6, Fri Oct 7: Performing Homo Economicus Pierre Bourdieu. “Making the Economic Habitus: Algerian Workers Revisited.” Ethnography 2000. 1(1): 17-41. Karen Ho, Liquidated. An Ethnography of Wall Street. London: Duke University Press, 2009, Introduction, pp. 4-13; chapter 2, “Wall Street’s Orientation,” pp. 73-121. Film to watch before coming to class: Equity (2016) Recommended Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, 2008. “The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne.” In MacKenzie, Muniesa, and Siu (eds.), Do economists make markets? On the performativity of economics, pp. 20-53. Brooke Harrington, “Parsing Performativity.” http://thesocietypages.org/economicsociology/2010/03/30/parsing-performativity/ Mitchell Abolafia, 1996. Making Markets. Introduction, pp. 1-13 and Chapter 1, “Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street,” pp. 14-37. Harvard University Press. Donald MacKenzie, 2006. An Engine, Not a Camera. Cambridge: MIT, Ch.1–3, p. 1-89. Vohs, Kathleen D. Nicole L. Mead and Miranda R. Goode. 2006. “The Psychological Consequences of Money.” Science 314(5802): 1154–56. PART TWO: BRIDGING SEPARATE SPHERES Session 7, Mon Oct 10: Household Economy I Mary Blair-Loy, 2001. “Cultural Constructions
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