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Jean Baudrillard's theory for a model of exchange which existed prior to capitalism in which goods and actions that have no intrinsic value are exchanged for purely symbolic reasons.
Apr 22, 2005 · Building on the French cultural theory of Georges Bataille, Marcel Mauss, and Alfred Jarry, he champions “symbolic exchange” which resists capitalist values of utility and monetary profit for cultural values.
Symbolic exchange remains one of the best-known and yet obscure elements of Baudrillard’s thought. It seems to be essentially left behind after L’échange Symbolique et la Mort (1976), but it is only the term that is dropped.
- Macro and Micro Approaches. Although this may be overly simplistic, sociologists’ views basically fall into two camps: macrosociology and microsociology.
- Functionalism. Functionalism, also known as the functionalist perspective, arose out of two great revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The first was the French Revolution of 1789, whose intense violence and bloody terror shook Europe to its core.
- Conflict Theory. In many ways, conflict theory is the opposite of functionalism but ironically also grew out of the Industrial Revolution, thanks largely to Karl Marx (1818–1883) and his collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820–1895).
- Symbolic Interactionism. Whereas the functionalist and conflict perspectives are macro approaches, symbolic interactionism is a micro approach that focuses on the interaction of individuals and on how they interpret their interaction.
Oct 2, 2021 · Jean Baudrillard’s theoretical system contains two significant categories of analysis: an anthropological notion of symbolic exchange, which is contrasted with that of simulation. The development of his conception of symbolic exchange, from the 1970s into the...
- Gary Genosko
- 2021
Baudrillard’s sense of theory as symbolic exchange can be understood as a method and practice ceasing to be grounded in a reliable metaphysics of the subject (rational, calculating, atomistic, contractually bound, having inalienable rights) and object (source of use, exchange and sign value), passively manipulated as mirror of the subject’s ...
Feb 26, 2018 · He then argues that it is necessary to distinguish four different logics: (1) The logic of practical operations, which corresponds to use-value; (2) The logic of equivalence, which corresponds to exchange-value; (3) The logic of ambivalence, which corresponds to symbolic exchange; and (4) the logic of difference, which corresponds to sign-value.
