VIVIANA A. ZELIZER Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology 120 Wallace Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 t:(609) 258-4557 t:(609) 258-4531 f:(609) 258-2180 vzelizer@princeton.edu |
HOW DO ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AFFECT THE MEANING OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS?
How do interpersonal connections enter into the production, distribution, consumption, and transfer of economic value? My work highlights situations in which the relationship between economic activity and personal life is changing or in dispute. I explore how Americans came to treat life insurance as morally acceptable and prudent in Morals and Markets, and how children came to be seen as emotionally central just as their economic contributions to family life declined in Pricing the Priceless Child. We like to think of money and emotion as separate realms, but in my most recent work, The Purchase of Intimacy, I argue that the two realms intertwine in the most fundamental ways. Our private worlds overflow with prices, exchanges, and forms of instrumental reasoning. Economic activity plays a key role in the way we express the value of those who are near and dear. CURRICULUM VITA (pdf) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (For links to publications, please visit http://www.princeton.edu/~vzelizer) The Purchase of Intimacy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. "Money, Power, and Sex." Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 18: 303, 2006. "Culture and Consumption." In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, editors. Handbook of Economic Sociology, second edition. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005), pp. 331-54. "Circuits within Capitalism." In Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, editors. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. (With Charles Tilly) “Relations and Categories.” Chapter for Arthur Markman and Brian Ross, editors, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 47. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, forthcoming. 
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