ABSTRACT
Some concepts seem to be indelibly fused to their foundation disciplines: society and sociology, culture and anthropology, the market and economics. Indeed, it is almost impossible to envisage these fields of knowledge in the absence of their core, defining constructs. Other concepts are more eclectic. Sliding between disciplines, in different times and places they are picked up and used to illuminate particular aspects of the social world, only to be left aside when the problem is solved or when researchers’ interests move on to other things.
