When Money Changes Society: The case of Sardex money as community

Classical sociology considered money as central to the functioning of modern society, relating
it to a progressive expansion of instrumental rationality and the emergence of weaker social ties.
Modern money, the universal equivalent described by Simmel, facilitates the
exchange of goods and values by providing a single unit of account. This “frees” people and things
from traditional social ties and makes them free to “sell” their work and trade goods on markets that
increasingly erode ...