The Coinage of the Self: Money, Signs, and the Social Self

Abstract

Various sociological theories about the nature of money are reviewed here and a claim that money could be fruitfully examined from the standpoint of Peircian semiotics and Meadian interactionism is presented. The work of Marx and Simmel are interpreted in semiotic terms leading to the claim that the selves of human agents are constituted within a political and social economy resulting in the emergence of semiotic subjectivation and objectivation of money as features of the self.

Citation

Perinbanayagam, R. (2011), "The Coinage of the Self: Money, Signs, and the Social Self", Denzin, N.K., Athens, L. and Faust, T. (Ed.) Blue Ribbon Papers: Interactionism: The Emerging Landscape (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 107-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2011)0000036007