The Sociology of Debt.
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Tarih
2020
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Sage Publications Ltd
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
This chapter examines how religious authorities conceptualized debt as sinful because they considered it as unproductive, demonizing moneylenders or creditors who profited from usury. Understanding debt as sin has not vanished, though who is considered the sinner has shifted primarily from the creditor to the debtor. The chapter discusses how this shift originated during the Protestant Reformation in the work of Martin Luther and John Calvin. Now, a credit score signifies a debtor's character and shapes her life chances, including how high her interest rate will be. These scores have become critical techniques of power that control debtors. Debt produces new techniques of power not just for creditors, but also for debtors. While it is quite straightforward to witness how debtors are disciplined and controlled by creditors, the power of debtors is important to recognize as a possible form of resistance and force of social change.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Sociology, Martin Luther, Debt
Kaynak
Sociological Research Online
WoS Q Değeri
Q3
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Cilt
25
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4
