Thomas Burr
Biographic Data
| ID | 182237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Burr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Burr |
| SIGNATURE | BURR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations
Making Distribution Markets
Scholars usually analyze market-making within specific parameters. Market sociologists analyze institutions primarily between competitors; global value chain scholars study institutional innovation along exchange sequences; and varieties of capitalism scholars examine national institutional frameworks. I analyze how entrepreneurs and trade associations used “market-wide” institutions such as exhibitions and publications in French and American bic…
Market Cycles
Issues of supply and demand are basic to markets, but economic sociologists ignore consumers, while sociologists of consumption rarely treat consumption as demand. I conceptualize markets as cyclic interactions of producers and consumers around a product, each group embedded in different types of macrosocial patterns, with different purposes and structures. I apply this conceptualization to the French and U.S. bicycle markets from 1865 to 1914. T…
National market communities
Ethnographic studies within consumer culture theory examine the cultural and personal aspects of consumer communities, often focusing on brands. While fascinating, such studies often ignore market-oriented communities spanning national states. To address these gaps, the author introduces the concept of "national market community." Using comparative–historical methods, I examine how bicycle consumers organized national, market-oriented communities…
The Problem of Order in the Global Age
Building community, legitimating consumption
Economic and organizational sociologists tend to define markets as sets of producers, and research mostly supply-side issues. They generally ignore the role of consumers and their use of products, the source of profit for producers, a neglect especially problematical with regard to understanding market creation. A definition of markets as ‘producers and consumers of a product’ highlights the efforts to organize and legitimate product use that con…
Product Review
Market Cycles
Issues of supply and demand are basic to markets, but economic sociologists ignore consumers, while sociologists of consumption rarely treat consumption as demand. I conceptualize markets as cyclic interactions of producers and consumers around a product, each group embedded in different types of macrosocial patterns, with different purposes and structures. I apply this conceptualization to the French and U.S. bicycle markets from 1865 to 1914. T…
Making Distribution Markets
Scholars usually analyze market-making within specific parameters. Market sociologists analyze institutions primarily between competitors; global value chain scholars study institutional innovation along exchange sequences; and varieties of capitalism scholars examine national institutional frameworks. I analyze how entrepreneurs and trade associations used “market-wide” institutions such as exhibitions and publications in French and American bic…
National market communities
Ethnographic studies within consumer culture theory examine the cultural and personal aspects of consumer communities, often focusing on brands. While fascinating, such studies often ignore market-oriented communities spanning national states. To address these gaps, the author introduces the concept of "national market community." Using comparative–historical methods, I examine how bicycle consumers organized national, market-oriented communities…
Building community, legitimating consumption
Economic and organizational sociologists tend to define markets as sets of producers, and research mostly supply-side issues. They generally ignore the role of consumers and their use of products, the source of profit for producers, a neglect especially problematical with regard to understanding market creation. A definition of markets as ‘producers and consumers of a product’ highlights the efforts to organize and legitimate product use that con…
Product Review
Building community, legitimating consumption
Economic and organizational sociologists tend to define markets as sets of producers, and research mostly supply-side issues. They generally ignore the role of consumers and their use of products, the source of profit for producers, a neglect especially problematical with regard to understanding market creation. A definition of markets as ‘producers and consumers of a product’ highlights the efforts to organize and legitimate product use that con…
The Problem of Order in the Global Age
National market communities
Ethnographic studies within consumer culture theory examine the cultural and personal aspects of consumer communities, often focusing on brands. While fascinating, such studies often ignore market-oriented communities spanning national states. To address these gaps, the author introduces the concept of "national market community." Using comparative–historical methods, I examine how bicycle consumers organized national, market-oriented communities…
Market Cycles
Issues of supply and demand are basic to markets, but economic sociologists ignore consumers, while sociologists of consumption rarely treat consumption as demand. I conceptualize markets as cyclic interactions of producers and consumers around a product, each group embedded in different types of macrosocial patterns, with different purposes and structures. I apply this conceptualization to the French and U.S. bicycle markets from 1865 to 1914. T…
Making Distribution Markets
Scholars usually analyze market-making within specific parameters. Market sociologists analyze institutions primarily between competitors; global value chain scholars study institutional innovation along exchange sequences; and varieties of capitalism scholars examine national institutional frameworks. I analyze how entrepreneurs and trade associations used “market-wide” institutions such as exhibitions and publications in French and American bic…
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations
Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Product (mathematics (3 works) · Wine Industry and Tourism (3 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Marketing (2 works)