The Processes of Socio-economic Reproduction
Tony Andréani & Sarah Erden
What the paper says
This chapter addresses the socio-economic reproduction of production systems. This process is defined as consisting of the distribution of the means of production, the labour force, and the means of consumption among production units. The chapter identifies five key “operators” of this reproduction: kinship, a system of rights and obligations, physical violence, exchange and administrative allocation, which we will find in the study of modes of production. It focuses on only two of these operators. The first is kinship, with the role it plays, for example, in the “domestic” and “patriarchal” modes of production. We will see that relations of production determine the forms of kinship, with the former requiring a larger labour force than the latter. The chapter continues with a critical examination of contemporary ethnological and sociological research studies on kinship: failing to examine the relations of production, they struggle to explain its structures and their transformations. The second operator studied in the chapter is exchange, with an overview of its history, from its primitive forms to generalised market exchange, which led to the triumph of the “value form”.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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