Research Seminar: Experimenting with prices in everyday life

Pricing remains central to the organisation of everyday life. In this research seminar we ask: how can we study up-close the details of pricing in everyday life across different settings?

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 12:00 to 13:00

Research Seminar: Experimenting with prices in everyday life

Presented by: Marta Gasparin

Abstract:

Pricing remains central to the organisation of everyday life. In this paper we ask: how can we study up-close the details of pricing in everyday life across different settings? To address our question and reconcile the conflicting methodological imperatives introduced by wanting to explore rich detail at the same time as providing a comparative analysis, we developed a qualitative form of pricing experiment. This drew inspiration from the breach experiments of Garfinkel. We organised two experiments (at a flea market in Copenhagen and boot sale in Oxford) to study pricing practices. The findings suggest that actors index unwritten rules as a basis for orienting pricing, and that presence, absence and timing are important elements in price setting, along with the ways buyers accountably make sense of themselves as economic actors.
 
Authors:
Neyland Daniel, Gasparin Marta, Siu Lucy

Key Words: Market, Price, Experiment, Breach, MundaneFunding

Time & Place: 24 January, 12:00-13:00 in D4.20

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