A Z Pitluck
Biographic Data
| ID | 51751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Z Pitluck |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitluck |
| SIGNATURE | PITLUCK A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6633-5853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology
This Current Sociology Monograph draws together six articles that broker novel concepts into economic sociology. To orient this enterprise, this article examines the concepts of creativity and novelty in social theory and explains why it is challenging work to broker concepts across intellectual communities. To understand the existing boundaries across which one could broker, it next describes how the subfield of economic sociology has been shape…
Sometimes it looks fake: Hiyaland contrivances as tools for exploring aspirations for radical social change
On one hand, Islamic banking and finance is an aspiration to radically transform banks and the financial system to conform with interpretations of Islamic ethics and morals. On the other hand, such high aspirations patently conflict with the existing global, US$3.6 trillion market dominated by profit-oriented private banks. These aspirations also potentially conflict with the technical details of how financial products are constructed to be "Shar…
Beyond debt and equity: Dissecting the red herring and a path forward for normative critiques of finance
A recurring theme in academic, moralizing, and religious discourses laments the individual and societal perils of debt and praises equity. Contemporary Islamic banking and finance is one conspicuous example. This article recontextualizes this conversation by demonstrating that since the 1980s financial practitioners have been interpreting debt and equity as increasingly illegible cognitive schemas that nonetheless retain their historical and mora…
Resources in Relational Packages: Social Capital as a Byproduct of Relational Work
Social capital theory offers a compelling explanation as to why people are committed to making resources available to others outside of formal institutions. In this article, we build on social capital theory to explain how actors overcome two practical problems endemic to these resource transfers. We present Viviana Zelizer’s relational work theory as a complimentary framework which accounts for when an individual may act on commitments to offer …
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, written by Sloane-White, Patricia
Finance beyond function: Three causal explanations for financialization
This article suggests that it is advantageous for social scientists to deliberately depart from functionalist theories seeking to explain the expansion of financial instruments and logics across social life. Rather, we identify three causes of financialization from three extant clusters of scholastic activity: an organic political economy that sees finance expanding as a product or by-product of larger state- and imperial-level political struggle…
Financialization and Beyond
How to embrace performativity while avoiding the rabbit hole
On the one hand, it is intuitive that the way we think about and represent economic things will alter the economy that we are representing. For example, a management consultant's diagram, a financi
Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict
Distributed execution in illiquid times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets
Sociologists and other social scientists typically characterize financial markets as ‘liquid’, where capital can be readily purchased or sold in global electronic networks, so that trades can be completed nearly instantaneously. In contrast, drawing on ethnographic interviews in an emerging market, Malaysia, and on cross-national statistics, secondary survey data and econometric studies, this article argues that world stock markets are normally i…
Ethnography Meets Econometrics: Exploring Daily Work Practices that Lead to Financial Crises
Finance beyond function: Three causal explanations for financialization
This article suggests that it is advantageous for social scientists to deliberately depart from functionalist theories seeking to explain the expansion of financial instruments and logics across social life. Rather, we identify three causes of financialization from three extant clusters of scholastic activity: an organic political economy that sees finance expanding as a product or by-product of larger state- and imperial-level political struggle…
Distributed execution in illiquid times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets
Sociologists and other social scientists typically characterize financial markets as ‘liquid’, where capital can be readily purchased or sold in global electronic networks, so that trades can be completed nearly instantaneously. In contrast, drawing on ethnographic interviews in an emerging market, Malaysia, and on cross-national statistics, secondary survey data and econometric studies, this article argues that world stock markets are normally i…
How to embrace performativity while avoiding the rabbit hole
On the one hand, it is intuitive that the way we think about and represent economic things will alter the economy that we are representing. For example, a management consultant's diagram, a financi
Sometimes it looks fake: Hiyaland contrivances as tools for exploring aspirations for radical social change
On one hand, Islamic banking and finance is an aspiration to radically transform banks and the financial system to conform with interpretations of Islamic ethics and morals. On the other hand, such high aspirations patently conflict with the existing global, US$3.6 trillion market dominated by profit-oriented private banks. These aspirations also potentially conflict with the technical details of how financial products are constructed to be "Shar…
Ethnography Meets Econometrics: Exploring Daily Work Practices that Lead to Financial Crises
Distributed execution in illiquid times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets
Sociologists and other social scientists typically characterize financial markets as ‘liquid’, where capital can be readily purchased or sold in global electronic networks, so that trades can be completed nearly instantaneously. In contrast, drawing on ethnographic interviews in an emerging market, Malaysia, and on cross-national statistics, secondary survey data and econometric studies, this article argues that world stock markets are normally i…
Conservatives Versus Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict
How to embrace performativity while avoiding the rabbit hole
On the one hand, it is intuitive that the way we think about and represent economic things will alter the economy that we are representing. For example, a management consultant's diagram, a financi
Financialization and Beyond
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, written by Sloane-White, Patricia
Finance beyond function: Three causal explanations for financialization
This article suggests that it is advantageous for social scientists to deliberately depart from functionalist theories seeking to explain the expansion of financial instruments and logics across social life. Rather, we identify three causes of financialization from three extant clusters of scholastic activity: an organic political economy that sees finance expanding as a product or by-product of larger state- and imperial-level political struggle…
Resources in Relational Packages: Social Capital as a Byproduct of Relational Work
Social capital theory offers a compelling explanation as to why people are committed to making resources available to others outside of formal institutions. In this article, we build on social capital theory to explain how actors overcome two practical problems endemic to these resource transfers. We present Viviana Zelizer’s relational work theory as a complimentary framework which accounts for when an individual may act on commitments to offer …
Beyond debt and equity: Dissecting the red herring and a path forward for normative critiques of finance
A recurring theme in academic, moralizing, and religious discourses laments the individual and societal perils of debt and praises equity. Contemporary Islamic banking and finance is one conspicuous example. This article recontextualizes this conversation by demonstrating that since the 1980s financial practitioners have been interpreting debt and equity as increasingly illegible cognitive schemas that nonetheless retain their historical and mora…
Sometimes it looks fake: Hiyaland contrivances as tools for exploring aspirations for radical social change
On one hand, Islamic banking and finance is an aspiration to radically transform banks and the financial system to conform with interpretations of Islamic ethics and morals. On the other hand, such high aspirations patently conflict with the existing global, US$3.6 trillion market dominated by profit-oriented private banks. These aspirations also potentially conflict with the technical details of how financial products are constructed to be "Shar…
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology
This Current Sociology Monograph draws together six articles that broker novel concepts into economic sociology. To orient this enterprise, this article examines the concepts of creativity and novelty in social theory and explains why it is challenging work to broker concepts across intellectual communities. To understand the existing boundaries across which one could broker, it next describes how the subfield of economic sociology has been shape…
Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (3 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 works) · Neoclassical economics (3 works)