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Ashley Mears: evaluation

3 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty

“I would be somewhat doing a disservice to my discipline if I were to say that it’s been overrated because it is one of the major findings within economic sociology that’s continually shown that there are all these advantages for having loose ties, arm’s-length ties.”

— Ashley Mears

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Ashley Mears
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3 Jun 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Of course. Yeah, I think that this is appropriate. I would be somewhat doing a disservice to my discipline if I were to say that it’s been overrated because it is one of the major findings within economic sociology that’s continually shown that there are all these advantages for having loose ties, arm’s-length ties. The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu — overrated or underrated?…

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