This book focuses on what markets teach us about coping with ambiguities and unexpected happenings. Starting with why knowledge is fickle and 'stuff happens' the book explores what the Market tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of explanatory accounts for making sense and routines for ignoring such problems.
This book focuses on what markets teach us about coping with ambiguities and unexpected happenings. Starting with why knowledge is fickle and 'stuff happens' the book explores what the Market tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of explanatory accounts for making sense and routines for ignoring such problems.
Charles W. Smith is Professor Emeritus of the Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Schools of CUNY, has spent the last fifty years studying, including active participation, all types of price-setting markets. He is the author of many books and articles including The Mind of the Market: A Study of Stock Market Philosophies, Their Uses and Implications (Rowman and Littlefield: 1981), Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (Free Press/U of California Press: 1989), Success and Survival on Wall Street: Understanding the Mind of the Market (Rowman & Littlefield: 1999) and Market Values in American Higher Education: The Pitfalls and Promises (Rowman & Littlefield: 2000). He was the editor/co-editor of The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour from 1977-2011.
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Part I: Uncertainties in Knowing and Doing 1: Knowledge is Fickle 2: Stuff Happens Part II: Traditional Coping Practices: Denying and Binding, Insulating and Propeling 3: Making Sense: Denying and Binding 4: Routines and Performances: Insulating and Propelling Part III: Acting Sensibly: Eluding Hazards and Grasping Opportunities 5: The Essentials of Acting Sensibly: An Overview 6: Identifying and Juggling Objectives 7: Recognizing Markers 8: Utilizing Rules of Thumb 9: Adjusting and Correcting One's Course 10: Monitoring and Utilizing Escape Routes Part IV: Teachings For Tomorrow 11: New Teachings of the New Market 12: Learning to Act Sensibly by Engaging and Doing Postscript Appendix A: Understanding Markets from a Sociological Perspective Appendix B: The Interplay of Ethnography and Markets
Part I: Uncertainties in Knowing and Doing 1: Knowledge is Fickle 2: Stuff Happens Part II: Traditional Coping Practices: Denying and Binding, Insulating and Propeling 3: Making Sense: Denying and Binding 4: Routines and Performances: Insulating and Propelling Part III: Acting Sensibly: Eluding Hazards and Grasping Opportunities 5: The Essentials of Acting Sensibly: An Overview 6: Identifying and Juggling Objectives 7: Recognizing Markers 8: Utilizing Rules of Thumb 9: Adjusting and Correcting One's Course 10: Monitoring and Utilizing Escape Routes Part IV: Teachings For Tomorrow 11: New Teachings of the New Market 12: Learning to Act Sensibly by Engaging and Doing Postscript Appendix A: Understanding Markets from a Sociological Perspective Appendix B: The Interplay of Ethnography and Markets
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