The Sociology of Economic Life

ISBN-13: 9780813344553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 594 str.

Mark Granovetter; Richard Swedberg

Opis

In recent years, sociologists have taken up a fruitful examination of institutions such as capital, labor, and product markets; industrial organization; and stock exchanges. Compared to earlier traditions of economic sociology, recent work shows more interest in phenomena usually studied exclusively by economists while it challenges the adequacy of the neoclassical model.

In The Sociology of Economic Life, editors Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg incorporate classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology and related disciplines to provide students with a broad understanding of the many dimensions of economic life. A thorough and accessible introduction by the editors traces the history of thought in the field and assesses recent advances and future trends. The third edition is substantially revised and updated with eight new chapters, including original contributions from some of the field's leading scholars that explain cutting-edge research and present the essential scholarship in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Third Edition -- Foundations of Economic Sociology -- The Economy as Instituted Process -- Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness -- The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes -- Max Weber’s Central Text in Economic Sociology -- The Forms of Capital -- Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action -- The Sociology of Markets -- The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing -- Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America -- The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies -- Economic and Sociological Approaches to Gender Inequality in Pay -- Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study -- Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness -- What Is Sociological About Banks and Banking? -- Constructing a Market, Performing a Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange -- The Sociology of Firms and Industries -- Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations -- Men Who Manage -- Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study -- Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems -- Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 -- Comparative and Historical Economic Sociology -- Weber’s Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization -- Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States -- E Pluribus Unum? Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism -- Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism -- Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina -- Transitions from State Socialism: A Property Rights Perspective

O autorze

Granovetter, Mark | Swedberg, Richard