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Your money or your life: Making people prudent
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The sociology of conduct is a well-established research field comprising Foucauldian studies on government, power and the individual; sociological approaches to social ordering exemplified in the work of theorists including Max Weber, Norbert Elias and Pierre Bordieu; and the symbolic interactionist work of theorists like G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman. The distinctiveness of this new book resides in bringing together canonical sociological figures in a text that is designed to tackle fundamental questions about the social character of ordered and extremely disordered conduct, and which is aimed primarily at undergraduates.
The book offers an innovative perspective on how individual behavior is socially patterned. It draws in part on the massive recent explosion of self-help manuals, television shows, and internet sites designed to produce and sanction particular forms of behavior. It also taps into the enduring fascination with situations in which extreme and violent conduct is widespread. As such it offers a unique sociological perspective on both mundane, everyday and extreme, exceptional conduct
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Advertising: A cultural economy
No full textAdvertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of advertising is long overdue.
Liz McFall surveys dominant and problematic tendencies within the current discourse. This book offers a thorough review of the literature and also introduces fresh empirical evidence.
Advertising: A Cultural Economy uses a historical study of advertising to regain a sense of how it has been patterned, not by the epoch', but by the interaction of institutional, organisational and technological forces
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture
Full text linkThis lightly edited transcript records the discussion at the opening roundtable of the What Was Cultural Economy? symposium at City, University of London in January 2020. In it, Don Slater, Sean Nixon and Liz McFall, all participants in the original ‘Workshop on Cultural Economy' reflect on the conceptual and institutional history of ‘cultural economy’ and how it intersected with their shared interests in advertising and consumer culture. Their individual reflections are followed by a shared discussion, with contributions from the floor. The transcript has been edited for clarity
Letters from students to Liz Case
No full textTwo letters from students thanking Liz Case for talking to their class about World War II
“It Has Always Known And We Have Always Been ‘Other’: Knowing Capitalism And The ‘Coming Crisis’ Of Sociology Confront The Concentration System and Mass-Observation,”
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Markets and the Arts of Attachment
No full textThe collection explores how sentiment and relation are organised internally in consumer markets. While tackling market action sociologically simply by adding a ‘little more soul’ to economic agents has been widely critiqued for neglecting the ways economic practices necessarily contain sentimental and social elements, questions remain about the way these elements are organised to create market attachment. The contributors explore the tools and techniques used to work with sentiment, aesthetics and relationships in strategies of, for example, website optimization, digital algorithms, personal selling, industrial design, neuromarketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and so on. The results range from enduring, stable ties to fragile, partial and broken links that cross time and space in both regular and unpredictable patterns. These arts play a crucial and largely unremarked role in the technical, organizational and material processes of forging and maintaining the channels necessary to attach people to markets
Liz Waldner, 20th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textLiz Waldner most recently taught at Tufts University in Boston. She is the author of several books of poetry including Bus Stop, Memo (La) Mento, and most recently, Homing Devices (O Books, 1997). In 1994 she received both the Barbara Deming Memorial Award and the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry. Her latest manuscript, Homeseeker’s Paradise, has been selected as a National Poetry Series Finalist
Book Launch for The Present Professor, by Liz Norell
No full textJoin us as we celebrate the publication of The Present Professor, the first book by CETL associate director of instructional support Liz Norell. CETL director Josh Eyler and other invited guests will discuss the key ideas of the book with the author and the audience. Light refreshments will be provided for registered participants
Oral history interview with Liz Blood
No full textLiz Blood, author and editor of the Tulsa Voice, shares her life and job experiences starting with her childhood in Oklahoma City. She explains that though she did not write much she was imaginative and enjoyed reading from a young age. She describes her decision to switch majors from international business to English in college and her experience teaching English abroad in Slovakia and South Korea. Blood talks about some of her more recent projects including her work with a podcast, Seven Minutes in Heaven, and her reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at the Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakotas.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
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