492 - Special Session. Cultures of Getting and Spending Inequality from Market Interactions and Classifications

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This special session looks at “hard times” and economic inequality through a cultural lens. Papers examine various ways in which inequalities are produced, managed and distributed through a range of practices, including consumer classification schemes, debt profiles and financial services. Together, they address finance and financialization as part of a broader terrain of consumption, interrogating how inequalities are coming to be structured in new and consequential ways for the lives of families and individuals.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizers

• Zsuzsanna Vargha, University of Leicester

• Daniel Thomas Cook, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers

Individual Presentations

• Relational Accounting and the Financial Self: Preliminary Evidence for the Mission Asset Fund - Frederick F. Wherry, Yale University; Kristin Seefeldt, University of Michigan; Anthony Alvarez, University of California-Los Angeles

• The Long Range and the Small Print: Relational Work and Financial Regulation in Wealth Management Encounters - Zsuzsanna Vargha, University of Leicester

• Negotiating Needs: Elite Consumers in New York City - Rachel Sherman, New School for Social Research

• Seeing Like a Market - Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley; Kieran Healy, Duke University