Is money ‘good’? The pursuit of personal wealth as a primary life ‘good’ lies at the heart of Australian society and culture. Yet in western culture, the traditional legacies of money understandings endure: as a value-neutral tool of the economy, free from moral considerations. This thesis provides a sociological analysis about how people are morally oriented towards money. The thesis addresses money meanings from an interpretative framework, in the context of in-depth interviews with forty-one young Tasmanian adults about what they understand is a ‘good life’. A sociological analysis of orientations towards what is ‘good’ in life provides a framework for thinking about morality along similar lines to Emile Durkheim, or later, Charles Taylo...
According to the New Testament ‘the love of money’ is a root of all evil and a no-go for church elde...
International audienceBased on participant observation, this paper analyzes the professional everyda...
Around ten thousand years ago, several communities around the world transitioned from a hunter-gathe...
Is money ‘good’? The pursuit of personal wealth as a primary life ‘good’ lies at the heart of Austra...
Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money inve...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1996 Dr. Valerie Ann St. Clair Wilson.This thesis confro...
In the 19th century, sociologists presented money in opposition to community bonds. In the classic t...
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financi...
This article focuses on the meanings and repertoires of action associated with money in low-income a...
This thesis contends that the subjective meanings and value attached to money may, in part, be a fun...
The article deals with the value-based vector of psycho-philosophical understanding of the money phe...
Based on participant observation, this paper analyzes the professional everyday of employees of the ...
This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different socie...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 2003...
In The Social Meaning of Money Viviana Zelizer steadily takes apart the idea of fungibility—that a d...
According to the New Testament ‘the love of money’ is a root of all evil and a no-go for church elde...
International audienceBased on participant observation, this paper analyzes the professional everyda...
Around ten thousand years ago, several communities around the world transitioned from a hunter-gathe...
Is money ‘good’? The pursuit of personal wealth as a primary life ‘good’ lies at the heart of Austra...
Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money inve...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1996 Dr. Valerie Ann St. Clair Wilson.This thesis confro...
In the 19th century, sociologists presented money in opposition to community bonds. In the classic t...
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financi...
This article focuses on the meanings and repertoires of action associated with money in low-income a...
This thesis contends that the subjective meanings and value attached to money may, in part, be a fun...
The article deals with the value-based vector of psycho-philosophical understanding of the money phe...
Based on participant observation, this paper analyzes the professional everyday of employees of the ...
This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different socie...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 2003...
In The Social Meaning of Money Viviana Zelizer steadily takes apart the idea of fungibility—that a d...
According to the New Testament ‘the love of money’ is a root of all evil and a no-go for church elde...
International audienceBased on participant observation, this paper analyzes the professional everyda...
Around ten thousand years ago, several communities around the world transitioned from a hunter-gathe...