Research Catalog

Title

The 'social' as metaphor and the case of cooperatives : a critique of economic individualism / Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi.

Author

Pellegrin-Rescia, Marie L.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Levi, Yair.

Description

xvii, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Economic history
• Social psychology
• Critical discourse analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-230) and index.

Contents

The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought -- The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic register -- The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the social field -- Interdependence and places of wandering : a history of places and bonds -- Symbolic delimitation versus imaginary bonds -- Anthropological debt versus imaginary work places -- Readiness to lose versus imaginary places of production -- Conclusion -- Images, myths and stereotypes -- Origins and constituent elements -- Tensions and inconsistencies -- Interpreting the socio-economic duality -- Paradoxes of cooperatives -- The case studies -- What have we learned from cooperatives? -- Summary and conclusions -- Thinking 'nestedness' as a system of constituent rules -- Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic : the example of South Africa -- Thinking the virtual more real than reality : the Città Aperta of Sicily -- Conclusions.

ISBN

1840144890 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005011783

OCLC

• OCM60349140
• SCSB-8871434

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries