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On the french sociology of credit

[En Francia se ha desarrollado una de las más interesantes y ricas sociologías del crédito y la deuda en los últimos años. Sin embargo, ya sea por la barrera lingüística o porque las publicaciones académicas de ese país no son de fácil acceso en el resto del mundo, esta muy fructífera empresa colectiva no ha tenido el impacto internacional que se merece. Con el fin de cambiar esta situación, dos de las más activas investigadoras en esta área, Laure Lacan y Jeanne Lazarus, han escrito el artículo ‘A Relationship and a Practice: On the French Sociology of Credit’ que resume y organiza esta literatura]

Laure Lacan and Jeanne Lazarus. A Relationship and a Practice: On the French Sociology of Credit. MaxPo Discussion Paper 15/1. Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies. February 2015

This paper aims to describe the social studies of credit developed in France over the past dozen years. We argue that this French sociology of credit, mostly centered on France, can be useful for researchers analyzing other countries, with other institutional particularities, because it proposes a specific method and a specific way to raise questions: credit is mostly understood as a result of social interactions embedded in organizational and legal structures. French researchers also deeply analyze the consequences of the organization of the credit market for inequalities, social stratification, and people’s life experiences. Continue reading