Purchase Of Intimacy Research Articles

“They’re Worth My Investment”: Cultivating Intimacy through Fan-lead Financial and Support Initiatives among BTS Fans

This research outlines the motivations behind the fan-lead marketing and promotional endeavours undertaken by musical group BTS’s fan community, also known as ARMY. In highlighting the reciprocity in intimacy between the group and their fans, I argue that ARMY’s desire to elevate BTS is embedded within structures of affect, despite the financial nature of the benefits the group and their company may reap. These fan-lead initiatives represent efforts towards a common goal, where success, whether it comes in the form of money or not, is a gift of gratitude and a show of mutual understanding from fans to BTS. Based on data from 22 interviews with fans, this research explores the motivations behind fan-lead marketing by looking at the affective properties of music consumption, the parasocial relationship, fan community dynamics, and the purchase of intimacy. Within these contexts, the promotion surrounding BTS’s music, as organized by the fans, mimics profit-oriented behaviours but is ultimately a gesture towards the exchange of intimacy between fans and artist.

“They’re Worth My Investment”: Cultivating Intimacy through Fan-lead Financial and Support Initiatives among BTS Fans

This research outlines the motivations behind the fan-lead marketing and promotional endeavours undertaken by musical group BTS’s fan community, also known as ARMY. In highlighting the reciprocity in intimacy between the group and their fans, I argue that ARMY’s desire to elevate BTS is embedded within structures of affect, despite the financial nature of the benefits the group and their company may reap. These fan-lead initiatives represent efforts towards a common goal, where success, whether it comes in the form of money or not, is a gift of gratitude and a show of mutual understanding from fans to BTS. Based on data from 22 interviews with fans, this research explores the motivations behind fan-lead marketing by looking at the affective properties of music consumption, the parasocial relationship, fan community dynamics, and the purchase of intimacy. Within these contexts, the promotion surrounding BTS’s music, as organized by the fans, mimics profit-oriented behaviours but is ultimately a gesture towards the exchange of intimacy between fans and artist.

Hostile Worlds or Connected Lives? Research on the Interplay Between Intimacy and Economy

AbstractEconomic sociologists have devoted most of their attention to the activities of individuals and firms in markets. However, recent attempts have pushed for a better understanding of the relationship between intimacy and economy. Such efforts have been inspired, in large part, by Viviana Zelizer (2000, 2005). In her inquiry on the purchase of intimacy, Zelizer proposed seminal differentiations between the “hostile worlds,” “nothing but,” and “connected lives” perspectives, and advanced a cultural relational analysis of the economy. In this essay, we review research that applies Zelizer's framework, and suggest substantive and analytical avenues for future research on economy/intimacy nexus.

For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy

Viviana Zelizer's recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships—a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer's critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships and then explains her more three‐dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer's approach to transfers of genetic material and concluding that her approach could point toward a more equitable resolution of disputes in and about these markets.

Who is right about the modern economy: Polanyi, Zelizer, or both?

Zelizer’s work may be read as an attack on the central Polanyian thesis: that the market system threatens social life by the undue prominence it lends the economy in the organization of modern society. The recent publication of Viviana Zelizer’s The Purchase of Intimacy (2005a) is therefore an excellent opportunity to review the general trend of her work Zelizer 1979, 1985, 1994, and contrast her leading ideas to the central thesis that gives Polanyi’s work its particular flavor: the danger encapsulated in the use of modern money and the functioning of the market system.

The social meaning of money and intimacy: Review of Viviana A. Zelizer, The Purchase of Intimacy

There has always been fear that the market's penetration into every aspect of people's daily lives will corrupt the ethical and moral foundation of our society. However, Viviana A. Zelizer in her latest book, The Purchase of Intimacy, reassures us that economic activities and intimate relations can be well mingled. Such mixing only becomes dangerous when third-party organizations are involved and lead to the abuse of power. To some extent, The Purchase of Intimacy continues the same theme from the author's earlier book, The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief and Other Currencies (1994, New York, NY: Basic Books), that society is not transformed into a commodity market, and economic transactions are filled with social meanings designated by people involved in them. The book starts with a legal case dating from the 1840s in which the heirs of a land owner, Samuel Miller, sued his emancipated slave and sexual partner, Patsy, for the possession of promissory notes given to her by the deceased. The case pivoted on the definition of Patsy's relationship to Miller at the time of the gift: whether she was a slave, a concubine, or a wife (though the Catahoula jury, applying the more liberal laws of Missouri, declared the gift legal, the Supreme Court of Louisiana repealed the initial verdict, and ruled in favor of the heirs in condemnation of interracial concubinage). Zelizer goes on to consider more recent cases of compensation disputes among relatives of the victims in the 9/11 tragedy, revealing that the legal system constantly gets involved in situations where economic transactions and intimate relations intersect. She then poses three sets of questions that the book attempts to answer: when and how do people intertwine economic transactions with intimate relations and with what consequences for third parties; why and how do they create elaborate stories and

Sexuality and Social Change: Sexual Relations in a Capitalist System:The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora;Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society;The Purchase of Intimacy

In 1975, in the classic work The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex, Gayle Rubin established the importance of the exchange of women between house holds as the foundation for the sex-gender system. Since Rubin's germinal article, anthropologists have increasingly examined both the influence of commodities on women's sexuality and the treatment of women's sexuality as a commodity. The three books reviewed in this essay address both approaches to the intersection between sex and the economy; collectively, authors Viviana Zelizer, Holly Ward low, and Gloria Wekker suggest that sexuality has been examined too narrowly as either inimical to the economic sphere or deeply subsumed within it. As an alternative, the authors suggest that sexuality is embedded within the economic sphere, influenced by economic changes yet not determined by them. Economic sociologist Viviana Zelizer's book, The Pur chase of Intimacy, examines the behavior of inti macy and finances in the U.S. legal and social systems. Us ing a sophisticated collection of legal cases and secondary data, Zelizer uses an expansive definition of to ex plore a range of intimate economic transactions from cou pling to household commerce. This definition extends be yond sexual relations to incorporate usually excluded inti mate relations such as the attorney-client privilege, which treats communication of personal information as a type of intimacy. Zelizer's research challenges the two dominant theo ries on and economics?what she refers to as the hostile spheres and nothing theories?in favor of a theory of economics and intimacy. The hostile spheres argument suggests that sustaining intimacy and corrupting markets are inherently contradictory (p. 40). The nothing argument is a collection of theories that reduce to factors such as the market or cul ture without examining the intersection between and economics. Zelizer proposes instead the relational or connected lives argument, namely arguing that people who blend and economic activity are actively en gaged in constructing and negotiating 'Connected Lives' (p. 22). This work includes the negotiations indi viduals engage in when they blend and economics in several spheres: coupling relations, caring work, and household commerce. For example, the work in volved in allocating money for children's allowances and the exchange of money or goods for sex is all within the purview of this book. Zelizer examines data not only on how individuals ne gotiate this work but also on how this work is interpreted and policed by the U.S. legal system. Zelizer admits that she provides neither a definitive account of the U.S. law of nor an account that would be satisfactory for a legal specialist. Indeed, in some portions of the book, it seems Zelizer wanders from one interesting example to another without pausing for detailed analysis. However, from an economic sociology perspective, she an alyzes how judges and lawyers attempt to first understand the type of intimate relationship between two parties and then to match these relations with an appropriate legal def inition, such as marriage or cohabitation, that includes an

The Purchase of Intimacy

The Purchase of Intimacy

The Purchase of Intimacy

Students of the intersection between monetary transfers and intimate social relations face a choice among three ways of analyzing that relationship: as hostile worlds whose contact contaminates one or the other; as nothing but market transactions, cultural constructions, or coercion; or as differentiated ties, each marked by a distinctive set of monetary transfers. A review of payment practices, legal disputes, and recent legal theory illustrates the weakness of the first two views and the desirability of further pursuing the third alternative.