Utowarowienie i odtowarowienie w ujęciu socjologicznym: próba (re)konceptualizacji

The article aims to reconceptualize the sociological approach to the broadly understood processes of commodification-decommodification and related phenomena in order to broaden their heuristic power. The text has two layers. First, it proposes a theoretical framework – a set of initial analytical categories allowing to capture different cases and the dynamics of commodification-decommodification processes by taking into account the achievements of socio-economic geography, among other approaches. This framework also uses some elements of the socio-economic theory of property, going beyond the formal and legal analysis of new institutional economics. Second, it offers the examples of how these categories can be applied to the analysis of selected social phenomena and processes as well as formulates some research hypotheses related to the aims, tasks and scope of welfare state.