Platform Expansion as a Challenge to the Sociology

Occupation: Head of Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, First Vice-Rector
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 12

Pages

15-28

Abstract

Rapid development of the platform economy leads to changes in the organizational forms of the economy that are followed by a fundamental transformation of social relationships on macro and micro levels, directly affecting a major subject area of sociology. Extraction of big data by the platforms gives an access to examination of human behavior, which was hardly accessible in previous times. At the same time, it claims for new analytical approaches. As a result, sociology is facing serious substantive and methodological challenges. More effective analysis of dynamic changes in the environment is required. Maintenance of the sociological theory itself as a corpus of general explanatory schemes is also on the agenda given the increasing attempts to replace sociology by the computational social science. Presented study is based on a most recent special literature. We define platforms as a new mode of economic integration, trace a logic of the platform capitalism, examine the emerging hybrid forms of exchange, reveal a contradictory nature of the social networks, explore the new meanings of rationality of human behavior, and analyze how social relationships are being changed at different levels.

Keywords

platform economy, algorithmic management, social networks, social relationships

Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the Program for Basic Research of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”. We thank for valuable comments A. Shevchuk, A. Tyulyupo and other fellows from the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology.

Received

24.12.2022

Publication date

27.12.2022

Number of characters

42667

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GOST	Radaev V. Platform Expansion as a Challenge to the Sociology // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2022. – Issue 12 C. 15-28 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250022667-6-1-en (circulation date: 27.07.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250022667-6
MLA	Radaev, Vadim "Platform Expansion as a Challenge to the Sociology." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 12 (2022):15-28. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250022667-6
APA	Radaev V. (2022). Platform Expansion as a Challenge to the Sociology. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (12), pp.15-28 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250022667-6

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