Moral Struggles in and Around Markets

Philip Balsiger, Simone Schiller-Merkens
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Moral struggles in and around markets abound in contemporary societies where markets have become the dominant form of economic coordination. Reviewing research on morality and markets across disciplinary boundaries, this introductory essay suggests that a moral turn can currently be observed in scholarship, and draws a direct connection to recent developments in the sociology of morality. The authors introduce the chapters in the present volume “The Contested Moralities of Markets.” In doing so, the authors distinguish three types of moral struggles in and around markets: struggles around morally contested markets where the exchange of certain goods on markets is contested; struggles within organizations that are related to an organization’s embeddedness in complex institutional environments with competing logics and orders of worth; and moral struggles in markets where moral justifications are mobilized by a variety of field members who act as moral entrepreneurs in their striving for moralizing the economy. Finally, the authors highlight three properties of moral struggles in contemporary markets: They (1) arise over different objects, (2) constitute political struggles, and (3) are related to two broader social processes: market moralization and market expansion. The introduction concludes by discussing some of the theoretical approaches that allow particular insights into struggles over morality in markets. Collectively, the contributions in this volume advance our current understanding of the contested moralities of markets by highlighting the sources, processes, and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, both through tracing the creation, reproduction, and change of underlying moral orders and through reflecting the status and power differentials, alliances, and political strategies as well as the general cultural, social, and political contexts in which the struggles unfold.
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市场内外的道德斗争
在市场已成为经济协调的主要形式的当代社会中,市场内部和市场周围的道德斗争比比皆是。回顾跨学科界限的道德和市场研究,这篇介绍性文章表明,目前可以在学术界观察到道德转向,并将其与道德社会学的最新发展直接联系起来。作者介绍了本卷“有争议的市场道德”中的章节。在此过程中,作者区分了市场内部和市场周围的三种类型的道德斗争:围绕道德竞争市场的斗争,其中市场上某些商品的交换是有争议的;组织内部的斗争与组织在复杂的制度环境中的嵌入性有关,这些环境具有相互竞争的逻辑和价值秩序;以及市场中的道德斗争在市场中,道德辩护是由各种各样的领域成员动员起来的他们在努力使经济道德化的过程中扮演道德企业家的角色。最后,作者强调了当代市场中道德斗争的三个特征:它们(1)产生于不同的对象,(2)构成政治斗争,(3)与两个更广泛的社会过程有关:市场道德化和市场扩张。引言最后讨论了一些理论方法,这些方法允许对市场中道德斗争的特殊见解。总的来说,本卷的贡献推进了我们目前对市场有争议的道德的理解,突出了市场和市场周围道德斗争的来源、过程和结果,既通过追踪潜在道德秩序的创造、再生产和变化,又通过反映地位和权力差异、联盟和政治战略,以及斗争展开的一般文化、社会和政治背景。
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