In my head, I have a cleaning lady
” Symbol form and symbolic intention in the everyday use of money
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10740211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie McNabb (0000-0002-3310-9112, Department of Psychology, Accounting , Private Practice , Seattle , Washington , USA, corresponding author), Karl Chan-Brown (Private Practice , Seattle , Washington , USA), Julia Keller (0000-0003-3781-0974, Private Practice , Seattle , Washington , USA) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 235 |
| Pages | 119-151 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2018-0100 |
| OpenAlex | W3095214162 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Money is a symbol. Beginning with this simple notion, we have completed a qualitative study of how money exists in people’s everyday lives and how it is used symbolically. A review of the financial, economic, psychological, and semiotic literature shows that even though money is written and talked about exhaustively, little symbol theory appears in economic writing, and we rarely found money mentioned in semiotic texts. We used a qualitative, phenomenological approach to identify critical thematic elements and underlying structures of participants’ experience. We also incorporated an accepted symbol-structure template in our analysis of the functions, emotions, actions, and reactions in the transactions our participants described. Participants refer to money both as wealth in the abstract and as concrete amounts about to be used. Our analysis of money in the abstract describes a structure of experience involving belonging, privacy and secrecy, unequal distribution, quantitative uncertainty, reflections of life history, and values. Our analysis of money in the concrete reveals a symbolic intention and a variety of “Others” engaged in the symbolic action
Action (physics) · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Psychoanalysis · Secrecy · Semiotics · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Symbolic interactionism · The Symbolic · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |