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Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets.
The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library

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Viviana Zelizer has traced the transition from a value system that considered such things as "death, life, human organs ... 36 Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (New York  ...
Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism

Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism

Mary Ann Clawson

The obstacles to the practice of insuring human life, Viviana A. Zelizer has argued, were primarily cultural, located in “a value ... 17 Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (New ...
The Social Meaning of Money

The Social Meaning of Money

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, ...
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the ...

Viviana A. Rotm Zelizer

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets.
La signification sociale de l'argent

La signification sociale de l'argent

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

L'argent, un intermédiaire impersonnel qui vient standardiser et désincarner les rapports sociaux, voire les corrompre ? À l'encontre de ces idées communément répandues chez les économistes, Viviana Zelizer montre combien les ...
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

Viviana A. Zelizer

This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists.
A NEGOCIAÇAO DA INTIMIDADE

A NEGOCIAÇAO DA INTIMIDADE

VIVIANA A. ZELIZER

Na vida pessoal, as pessoas podem considerar essencial separar a economia da intimidade. A autora se utiliza do exemplo dos relacionamentos amorosos no local de trabalho. Neste livro, Viviana Zelizer propõe um desafio a essa visão.
The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families

The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families

Naomi R. Cahn

See Viviana Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (1994); Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985). See, e. g., Ieanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of  ...
The Purchase of Intimacy

The Purchase of Intimacy

Viviana A. Zelizer

In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view.
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon

2 (2010): 11–24. 000 Boston-based Ethiopian: Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies (New York: Basic Books, 1994). Six percent of the US: Asli Demirgüç- Kunt and ...
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of ...

Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of ...

Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer

This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s.
Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work ...

Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work ...

Shauna Vey

37. 38. Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence, 4. The verb is Bernstein's; ibid., 34. Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child, 95. Ibid., 95. See Benjamin McArthur, “'Forbid Them Not,'”; Shauna Vey, “Good Intentions and Fearsome Prejudice.
The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology ...

The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology ...

Barbie Zelizer

The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ ...
Parallel paths: fiduciary doctrine and the crown-native ...

Parallel paths: fiduciary doctrine and the crown-native ...

Leonard Ian Rotman

... David C. Nahwegahbow, Michael W. Posluns, Don Allen, and Douglas Sanders, 'The First Nations and the Crown: A Study of Trust Relationships,' unpublished research report prepared for the Special Committee of the House of Commons ...
Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism

Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism

Andy Rotman

Skt., evam. maya ̄ s ́rutam; Pali, evam. me sutam. For more on this expression, see Lamotte ... Some notable exceptions include Brown 1997; Dehejia 1997; Eckel 1992; Matsumura 1985; and McMahan 2002. 5. For example, see Bundgaard ...
Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief ...

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief ...

Meg Jacobs

In this collection, Jacobs and Zelizer explore the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution and chronicle its legacy through subsequent presidencies up to Barack Obama's election in 2008.
Retourne à la maison !: Les femmes politiques face au ...

Retourne à la maison !: Les femmes politiques face au ...

Charlotte ROTMAN

Effectivement, la démarche a suscité quelques formes d'interrogation..., raconte Valérie Rabault, en souriant. Mais elle est sûre d'elle : « En tout cas, ma philosophie, c'est que quand on a des prérogatives, et c'est je pense l'essence même de ...
Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the ...

Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the ...

Catherine Becker

... Rick Asher, Celia Weiss Bambara, Richard Davis, Ömür Harmanşah, Padma Kaimal, Janice Leoshko, Rob Linrothe, Philip Lutgendorf, Samuel Parker, Priti Ramamurty, Andy Rotman, Jennifer Rupert, Alison Mackenzie Shah, Akira Shimada, ...
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Kim Phillips-Fein

On SIFE: Bethany Moreton, “Make Payroll, Not War,” in Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 52–70. On changing  ...
La Negociación de la Intimidad

La Negociación de la Intimidad

Vivian A. Zelizer

La negociacion de la intimidad analiza como todos utilizamos las actividades economicas para crear, sustentar y renegociar lazos intimos con otras personas, como los procesos economicos penetran en nuestras vidas privadas.
About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

Barbie Zelizer

... “The Impact of the Challenger Accident on Public Attitudes Toward the Space Program,” Report to the National Science Foundation (Public Opinion Lab, Northern Illinois University, 1987). 115. Martin Merzer, “Space's Age of Innocence Ends ...
Modernité en transit - Modernity in transit:

Modernité en transit - Modernity in transit:

Walter Moser

Autour de la notion de diversité culturelle* Michèle Ollivier Université d'Ottawa, Canada Viviana Fridman Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Goût, modernité et postmodernité le goût comme « l'avantage de découvrir avec finesse et ...
Planet Neptune and the Modern US Presidents: Franklin ...

Planet Neptune and the Modern US Presidents: Franklin ...

Suzanne Angioli

Suzanne Angioli. 19241974. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 130. 38. E. Stanly Godbold, Jr., Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 19241974. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 191. 39. Julian E. Zelizer, Jimmy Carter.

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