Patrik Aspers

Patrik Aspers (born 1970) is a Swedish sociologist, who is chair of Sociology at the Unviversity of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has worked in several countries. His research has mostly been on sociological theory and economic sociology, often drawing on phenomenology. Markets are the central topic of his research, and empirically he has mainly studied the fashion industry. He has developed notions like "aesthetic markets", "status markets" and "standard markets". Provided by Wikipedia