Paths and meanings of information in the stock market

Authors

  • Lúcia Helena Alves Müller Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

This papers focuses on the circuits along which information circulates within the sphere of a market taken as an exemplary institution of capitalist market relations: the stockmarket. Through ethnographic research, we have sought to identify the different contents this information can carry in the scope of the stockmarket, the configurations the information can assume and, particularly, the nature of the relations that shape the circuits and networks through which information circulates. The research led us to conclude that information is the main focus of competition among participants in the stockmarket. This is an eminently unequal type of competition, since what really counts here is not the content of what is being communicated, but the position each participant in the market holds in relation to the institutions and the networks through which the information circulates. Keywords: Organizations; economic sociology; finacial markets; informations networks.

Author Biography

Lúcia Helena Alves Müller, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

possui graduação em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1981), mestrado em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1989) e doutorado em Programa de Pós Graduação em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de Brasília (1997). Realizou período de estudos (doutorado sanduíche) na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - França (1994). Atualmente é professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, onde realiza e orienta pesquisas nos campos temáticos: antropologia das organizações, antropologia econômica, políticas sociais.

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Published

2005-01-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 6 (2005)

Section

Thematic Dossier

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