{"product_id":"concepts-of-capital-the-commodification-of-social-life","title":"Concepts of Capital","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorrowing terminology from the economic discipline—specifically the concept of \"capital\"—has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new concepts often have nothing left in common with their initial referents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere Jacek Tittenbrun offers a critical analysis of human, social, and cultural capital on the basis of their uses and misuses across a wide range of social sciences, simultaneously revealing the source of conceptual diffusion in the real world. He presents a two-pronged analysis of an intellectual fashion popular in the social sciences and offers a critical analysis of a range of concepts constructed around the common core of \"capital.\" The analysis is innovative, as it is underpinned by a theoretical framework rooted in economic sociology and the concept of ownership in particular. The approach is one of the sociology of knowledge coupled with a substantive critique-application of the given concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume reveals a range of processes in the real world that account for the conceptual diffusion. The general reader will be drawn to the discussion in the second half of the book, a study of a variety of relatable real life situations that illuminate privatization and commodification in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49607028277592,"sku":"9781412853026","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781412853026.jpg?v=1769828413","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/concepts-of-capital-the-commodification-of-social-life","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}