Bringing Economy and Culture Together in Sociological Research
Research workshop for early career scholars
February 28, 2019
The Open University of Israel, Raanana Kanbar Hall
Co-sponsored by the “Culture and Consumption” and “Sociology of the Economy” sections of the Israeli Sociological Society
09:00
Gathering and coffee
09:30
Welcome address: Dana Kaplan and Zeev Rosenhek, Sections Chairs,The Open University of Israel
09:45
Keynote lecture
Markets from Meaning: Quality Uncertainty and the Intersubjective Construction of Value Jens Beckert Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne
Chair: Galit Ailon, Bar Ilan University
11:00
Coffee break
11:15
Session I: Subjectivities and Practices in Everyday Economic Life
Chair: Dana Kaplan, The Open University of Israel
Discussant: Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel
Giacomo Tagiuri, Tel Aviv University The Law of Everyday Shopping: Social and Cultural Implications
Lee Rozman-Papier, University of Haifa Taking a Moral Approach to Gift-Giving to Children
Ariel Yankellevich, Ben Gurion University of the Negev “Looking into my Future, I See a Better Society”: Connecting the Private Self to the Public Sphere Through Self-development work in Neoliberal Israel
Netta Avnoon, University of Haifa The Omnivorous Skill Set of Data Scientists
13:15
Lunch break
14:15
Session II: Institutions, Technologies and Governmentality
Chair: Zeev Rosenhek,The Open University of Israel
Discussant: Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Rami Kaplan, The Open University of Israel How Corporations Perform Economic Governance: Revising the Model of Performativity
Amit Avigur-Eshel, Sapir College and Ronen Mandelkern, Tel Aviv University Financial Market Liberalization and the Construction of Shared Practical Experiences: The Case of Israel’s “Child Trust Fund”
Laurence Barry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Insurance, Big Data and Changing Conceptions of Fairnes
