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A curation of books to read or gift for holidays

Ana Andjelic
Dec 5, 2022
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Welcome to the Sociology of Business. The Sociology of Business offers a paid membership program. Paid options are for the members of this community who want to be the first to access everything from Web3 brand-building to the new business models and emerging creative formats. Since its inception, the Sociology of Business has been the source code for many other analyses, strategies and brand-building approaches. Members will now have the front-row seat. If you are not yet subscribed, join the community by subscribing below and joining the Sociology of Business Discord. You can find my book, The Business of Aspiration on Amazon and you can find me on Instagram and Twitter. For those new here, in my last analysis, When brand impedes growth, I explored if a brand aesthetic can be at odds with scaling business.

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For those looking for something new to read and something new to gift for the holidays, I put together a list of titles from the areas of taste, culture, sociology, luxury and aspiration, and business and brand strategy.

Taste

Pragmatics of Taste

Those Things That Hold Us Together: Taste and Sociology

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Culture

The Craftsman

The Field of Cultural Production

Addiction by Design

Reading Design

Alchemy

The Commercialization of Intimate Life

Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

The Algorithmic Self

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

The storytelling animal

Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Textual Poacher: Television Fants & Participatory Culture

Luxury and Aspiration

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster

Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

Pricing Beaty: The Making of a Fashion Model

Dealing in Desire

The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever

The Land of Too Much

Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle

Auctions: The Social Construction of Value

Sociology

The Goffman Reader

Illuminations

The Social Construction of Reality

The Problem of Social Cost

The Winner Take All Society

Liquid Modernity

The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy

Business

Redesigning Leadership

Predatory Thinking

Eating the Big Fish

This is Service Design Thinking

This is Service Design Doing

This is Service Design Methods

Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis

It's the Romance, not the Finance, that Makes the Business Worth Pursuing

Productive Friction: How Difficult Business Partnerships Can Accelerate Innovation

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy

Leading Change

Brand Strategy

Designing Brand Identity

Building the Brand-Driven Business

Building Strong Brands

Brand Leadership

The Brand Gap

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kev
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Dec 5, 2022

if you had to pick up only one per category; which ones would they be?

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samantha garnett
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Dec 5, 2022

This is wonderful! Thank you!

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