The Purchase of Intimacy

By V. Zelizer. Law & Social Inquiry, 2009

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Students of the intersection between monetary transfers and intimate social relations face a choice among three ways of analyzing that relationship: as hostile worlds whose contact contaminates one or the other; as nothing but market transactions, cultural constructions, or coercion; or as differentiated ties, each marked by a distinctive set of monetary transfers. A review of payment practices, legal disputes, and recent legal theory illustrates the weakness of the first two views and the desirability of further pursuing the third alternative.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance (2019, background): “Consequently, people habitually draw symbolic boundaries between familial and economic relationships to resolve this incongruence (Zelizer, 2007).”
Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, background): “…neoliberals (De Soto 1989, 2001), through institutional theorists (Webb et al 2009, 2013) to a range of critical, post-colonial, post-structuralist, post-development and post-capitalist scholars seeking to unpack the messy logics of monetized transactions (Escobar 1995; Snyder 2005; Zelizer 2005).”
The Relevance of “Women’s Work” (2014, background): “This approach requires eschewing the foundational assumption that there are necessarily hostile relations between the spheres of economics and affect (Zelizer 2005).”
Contradiction, convergence and the knowledge economy: the confluence of academic and commercial biotechnology (2007, background): “Zelizer, 2005 ). Our point here is that the structural reconfiguration of academic science generates an increasing tension between the ‘ideal’ culture of academic science and the ‘real’ culture of market-oriented logics governing the pursuit of capital in one or another form.”
Is There a Market for Ideas (2010, neutral): “For the class of ideas where both buyers This includes the seminal work of Zelizer (2005) on the pricing of child care and Titmuss (1971) on the use of (or lack of) monetary incentives in blood donation. at M IT Libraries on M ay 28, 2011 icc.oxfordjournals.org D ow nloaded from and sellers believe…”
The Social Demography of Internet Dating in the United States (2010, background): “It is supposedly distinct from the commercial activities that permeate capitalist societies (Zelizer 2005).”
Moral Views of Market Society (2007, background): “Following the terms of the debate as set by economists (Fourcade 2007, Zelizer 2005b), the field has emphasized questions of market structure and economic development over questions of moral order.”
Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World (2007, background): “Economic sociologists, meanwhile, have reminded us that cash and caring exist in a symbiotic relationship in many aspects of modern life, such as child care and parenting ( Zelizer, 2005 ).”
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange (2014, background): “Moreover, understanding this process provides the analytical leverage to begin reconciling the theoretical paradox in economic sociology and economic anthropology that is the nature of transactionalism (Bourdieu 2000; Zelizer 2005).”
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History (2014, background): “Money only comes into existence through these social relations, in that it always make sense within specific social identities, as a means of articulating family ties (Zelizer 2005) or the context of life and death (Zelizer 1979).”
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” (2011, background): “We do it informally in our everyday lives (Zelizer 1994, 2005), and we do it more formally through the intervention of organizations (e.g., Zelizer 1979; Healy 2006; and Almeling 2007).”