Bar-Ilan University.
Br J Sociol. 2019 Jun;70(3):927-947. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12382. Epub 2018 May 13.
The paper ethnographically explores the cultural embedding of atomistic indifference in online, global financial markets: arenas that have been digitally designed according to economic ideals and that demand an extreme form of relational and social dissociation from the partners to exchange and from those affected by the transactions. Its case-study is lay financial-trading in Israel, a country undergoing extensive neoliberalization. The study shows that dissociation is embedded in an economic culture marked by constant, multi-sited declarations that economic-Others are cold, uncaring and manipulative. It takes shape as traders convert the distrust towards Others into distrust towards portions of the Self that represent links to these Others, namely their own social-psychology and social concern. Acting atomistically and selfishly in the market thus entails considerable reflexive work. The paper contributes to an ongoing debate on the moral and cultural embeddedness of markets in general and of the expanding financial markets in particular.
这些市场是根据经济理想设计的数字平台，要求交易方与交易伙伴以及受交易影响的人之间保持极端的关系和社会脱节。本文的案例研究是以色列的业余金融交易，以色列正在经历广泛的新自由主义化。研究表明，这种脱节嵌入在一种经济文化中，这种文化的特点是不断地在多个地点宣称经济他者是冷漠、无情和操纵的。它表现为交易者将对他人的不信任转化为对自我的不信任，这些自我的部分代表了与这些他人的联系，即他们自己的社会心理学和社会关怀。因此，在市场上以原子主义和自私的方式行事需要大量的反思性工作。本文为正在进行的关于市场的道德和文化嵌入性的争论做出了贡献，特别是关于不断扩大的金融市场。
