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‘Public’ Versus ‘Natural’ Grammars: Complex Domination in the Financial Intermediation Industry
Benjamin Taupin,Marc Lenglet +1 more
- Vol. 52
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In this paper, the authors make the point that managerial domination as described by pragmatic sociology is an appropriate notion to make sense of complex forms of domination in contemporary organizations based on Lemieux's work on "grammars".Abstract:
In this article, we make the point that managerial domination as described by pragmatic sociology is an appropriate notion to make sense of complex forms of domination in contemporary organizations Based on Lemieux’s work on ‘grammars’, we complement approaches of complex domination put forward by pragmatic sociologists such as Boltanski and Thevenot We illustrate these ideas by means of an ethnographic study of the financial intermediation industry Our analysis sketches out an alternative conceptualization of power in such environments, and by so doing, helps us delineate the features that characterize complex financial domination We conclude by arguing that this type of domination is the result of specific contradictions inherent to the grammars of financial intermediationread more
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