Patrik Aspers
professor at Department of Sociology, Faculty
- Email:
- patrik.aspers[AT-sign]soc.uu.se
- Telephone:
- +4618-471 5191
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Patrik Aspers is professor at the Department of sociology. His research focuses on economic sociology, especially markets, and sociological theory. Empirically he has worked on fashion. Aspers is the author of Orderly Fashion, A Sociology of Markets (Princeton UP, 2010), Markets (Polity Press 2011),Markets in Fashion (2006 Routledge). the editor with J. Beckert of The Worth of Goods (Oxford UP, 2011), and with N.Dodd Re-Imagining Ecnoomic Sociology (Oxford UP 2015).
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Biography
Aspers has previously worked as a professor of sociology at Stockholm University, Department of Sociology and SCORE, and as professor of fashion management at the Swedish School of Textiles. From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Aspers has served as president of the Swedish Sociological Association (2010-2012). He has been invited lecturer at College de France, and academic visitor at Columbia University, Harvard University, The LSE, Science Po, and ZIF, University of Bielefeld.
Research
The long term research program of mine is called Being and Order (2007-2037). Being refers to human beings as existing in the world, and order to socialy formed ways of ambiguity and uncertainty. Order has so far been the main focus of attention. The program is the larger frame within which projects are developed.
I am currently writing a book on ways to reduce uncertainty and the corresponding question of order. It deals with three basic problems, ambiguity, uncertainty and risk. The focus is on public ways of uncertainty reduction, starting with grown institutions and decided institutions (formal instiutions), to forms that reduce uncertianty, including raking, ratings, markets and contests.
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