{"product_id":"concepts-of-capital-jacek-tittenbrun-9781138508408","title":"Concepts of Capital: The Commodification of Social Life","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacek Tittenbrun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138508403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138508408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Jacek Tittenbrun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148235481343,"sku":"9781138508408","price":68.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concepts-of-capital-jacek-tittenbrun-9781138508408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}