The case-study areas examined here have been made the nodal-points of these cycles of accumulation and financial investment. First, as Arrighi (2010) outlines, there has been 'a recurrent pattern of historical capitalism' whereby phases of stable growth based on technological innovation alternate with periods of crisis and the rise of a new economic, social and technological regime. The selection of these case studies has been based on two connected criteria. These assertions are made using three case studies: Renaissance Europe, 17th century England and 20th century U.S.A. There are also important dialectical relations between economic patronage and cosmology, cosmologies resonating in different ways with the economic interests patronising them. Using insights from Bourdieu's social theory, this paper shows how cosmologies are invested in by owners of economic capital seeking power and social status. But, like all forms of intellectual endeavour, cosmology is a product of society. Cosmology and Society: Developing a Bourdieusian PerspectiveĬontemporary sociology has paid very little attention to cosmology.
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