
A Sociological Approach to Commodification
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Rafal Drozdowski is Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research interest includes political sociology, visual sociology and sociology of everyday life.
Mariusz Baranowski is an adjunct researcher at the Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research interest includes political and economic sociology, social welfare issues and the critique of neoliberalism.
Content
Part I
1. Commodification and decommodification - economic and sociological perspectives
Part II: Transformations in Polish society after 1945 from the perspective of commodification processes
2. Decommodification and commodification processes under real socialism in Poland
3. The first years of the Polish transition from 'real socialism' to 'real capitalism' (and 'real democracy')
4. Basic commodification and decommodification processes in the Polish economy and Polish society since 1989: political and social conditions and consequences
Part III:Commodification of selected areas of social life: universal trends and Polish peculiarities
5. Varieties, conditions, consequences and paradoxes of the commodification of nature
6. The commodification and decommodification of culture
7. The commodification of health care
8. Selected problems concerning the commodification of education and science
9. Whose city is this? The city as an arena of commodification and decommodification processes
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