This brief, conclusive essay outlines the challenges that lie ahead of sociology as a discipline in its approach towards the ‘sharing economy’ and its emergent practices. Using the research displayed in the monograph, we offer a set of reflections that should read as a call to arms for sociological research to embrace the ‘sharing turn’ in a comprehensive manner.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
ArcidiaconoD. (2017). Economia collaborativa e startup: forme alternative di scambio economico o mito della disintermediazione? [Sharing economy and start-up: alternative economic exchange or myth of a dis-intermediated market?]. Quaderni di Sociologia, 73, 25–43.
2.
CappelliP.KellerJ. R. (2013). Classifying work in the new economy. Academy of Management Review, 38, 575–596.
3.
DenzinN. K. (1978). The research act: A theoretical orientation to sociological methods. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
4.
DiMaggioP. J.PowellW. W. (2000). The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. In BaumJ. A. C.DobbinF. (Eds.), Economics meets sociology in strategic management (pp. 143–166). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
5.
DrakopoulouS.GrossmanW.MooreP. (2016). The campaign for digital citizenship. Soundings, 62, 107–120.
6.
Esping-AndersenG. (1989). The three political economies of the welfare state. Canadian Review of Sociology, 26, 10–36.
7.
FerreraM.HemerijckA.RhodesM. (2000). Recasting European welfare states for the 21st century. European Review, 8, 427–446.
8.
GoldthorpeJ. (Ed.). (1984). Order and conflict in contemporary capitalism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
9.
GrahamM.HjorthI.LehdonvirtaV. (2017). Digital labour and development: Impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 23, 135–162.
10.
HintzA.DencikL.Wahl-JorgensenK. (2017). Digital citizenship and surveillance society introduction. International Journal of Communication, 11, 731–739.
11.
HuwsU. (2013). Working online, living offline: Labour in the Internet age. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 7, 1–11.
12.
KallebergA. (2011). Good jobs, bad jobs: The rise of polarized and precarious employment systems in the United States, 1970s–2000s. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
13.
LangeP.ReginiM. (1989). State, market and social regulation: New perspectives on Italy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
14.
MarresN. (2012). The redistribution of methods: On intervention in digital social research, broadly conceived. The Sociological Review, 60 (suppl.), 139–165.
15.
MooreP. V.UpchurchM.WhittakerX. (Eds.). (2017). Humans and machines at work. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
16.
RuppertE.LawJ.SavageM. (2013). Reassembling social science methods: The challenge of digital devices. Theory, Culture and Society, 30, 22–46.
17.
SoskiceD. (1993). Product market and innovation strategies of companies and their implications for enterprise tenure. Berlin, Germany: Wissenschaftszentrum.
