Note from the editor: Body, virus, morals, and scandals

Artikel

This issue centers on the encounter between the economy and the human body. Economics, like other social sciences, treats people mostly as disembodied actors who never catch viruses or suffer from back pain or creeping dementia. These abstract actors are all too often assumed also to be immortal, rarely acting with an acute consciousness of a finite life. These issues become visible in our academic looking glass only when they emerge as social problems, not as the normal experience of everyday existence.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter ; ISSN: 1871-3351 ; Volume: 21 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1-3 ; Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Róna-Tas, Ákos
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)
• (where): Cologne
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223119
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET