Wages are determined by the fierce struggle between capitalist and worker. The capitalist inevitably wins. The capitalist can live longer without the worker than the worker can live without him. Combination among capitalists is habitual and effective, while combination among the workers is forbidden and has painful consequences for them. In addition to that, the landowner and the capitalist can...

This paper studies how subjectivity in capitalist culture can be characterized. Building on Lacan's later seminars XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX, the author first outlines Lacan's general discourse theory, which includes four characteristic discourses: the discourse of the master, the discourse of the university, the discourse of the hysteric and the discourse of the analyst. Next, the author explo...

Introduction The effect of imperialism on the economic development of Third World countries has long been a subject of interest to Marxist scholars. The international expansion of capitalist states, which led to the creation of a world market and the integration of pre-capitalist countries into this market, heralded a new phase of capitalism the implications of which are still being debated. Th...

communication technologies) and accompanying new forms of social organisation (the existential centrality of what Alain Touraine [] called auto-géstion) have effectively socialised the means of immaterial production, putting them at the direct disposition of the computer-literate multitude. Social production has at the same time been greatly empowered, and liberated from direct capitalist c...

Abstract This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category young Mongol wives rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and group urban men whose dream is to be rich indulge themselves luxury. By drawing on analytical framework stance stylization, study how performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards co...

This article outlines the role and function of ‘service’ magic in premodern society, suggests ways which study can be used as a lens to investigate understand broader historical questions. Magic studies is marginalised field, supernatural generally treated an unusual aspect human experience. shows that there are major benefits reintegrating into wider studies. The begins by introducing concept ...

Abstract ‘Financialization’ refers to a variety of processes characterized by the increased prevalence financial actors and logics in contemporary capitalist societies. Borrowing from Mills, I suggest that financialization may fruitfully be understood as institutionalization vocabulary motive. Mills argues type reasons we give accept legitimate varies, dependent on social setting. The motive re...

The phenomena of meat production and consumption are related but often studied separately, funnelled into silos agro-food consumer-focussed research. This article aims to reconnect these spheres by asking: How do producers understand the role consumers in ethical meatscape? We draw from interviews site visits with 74 actors engaged system Canada. find that loom large cultural imaginary framed a...

In this article, I take issue with the conceptual apparatus and methodological prescriptions of comparative historical sociology. I will suggest that its problematic features are longstanding. In consequence, a dominant tendency of the field – that of returning to the ‘classics’ as a means of overcoming deficiencies found in more recent contributions – has the effect of reinforcing what is prob...

Contemporary capitalist societies use different institutions to manage economic risks. While public welfare state and financial (banks, capital markets) have been studied across coordinated liberal market economies, the worlds of private insurance understudied. Building on new data sets (1880–2017), we find that countries with a Maritime (USA, GBR, CAN) in contrast more backward Alpine (AUT, DE...