Readings in Economic Sociology (eBook)

Nicole Woolsey Biggart (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-75470-2 (ISBN)

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These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society.

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• Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists.
  
• Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets.
  
• Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.

Nicole Woolsey Biggart is Professor of Management and Sociology at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America (1989), and co-author (with Gary G. Hamilton and Marco Orrù) of The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism (1996).

Inhalt

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Preface..

Part I: Foundational Statements.

1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations (Adam Smith).

2. Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Selections from the Chapter on capital (Karl Max).

3. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
(Max Weber).

4. The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi).

Part II: Economic Action.

5. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of
Embeddedness (Mark Granovetter).

6. Making Markets: Opportunism and restraint on Wall Street
(Mitchel Y. Abolafia).

7. Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (Charles
Smith).

8. the Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the
California Gold Rush (Gary G. Hamilton).

9. The Separative Self: Andocentric Bias in Neoclassical
Assumptions (Paula England).

Part III: Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets.

10. Weber's Last Theory of capitalism (Randall Collins).

11. Markets as Politics: A Political-Culture Approach to Market
Institutions (Neil Fligstein).

12. Rethinking Capitalism (Fred Block).

13. Developing Difference: Social Organization and the rise of
the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina
(Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Mauro F. Guillen).

14. Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (Walter W.
Powell).

Part IV: Economic Culture and the Culture of the
Economy.

15. The Forms of Capital (Pierre Bourdieu).

16. Money, Meaning, and Morality (Bruce G. Carruthers and Wendy
Nelson Espeland).

17. The Social Meaning of Money (Viviana A. Zelizer).

18. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative
Organization (Sherryl Kleinman).

19. Greening the Economy from the Bottom Up? Lessons in
Consumption from the Energy Case (Loren Lutzenhiser).

Index.

Rezensionen

"A superb comprehensive tour of the fast-growing field of economic
sociology. This book demonstrates how economic behavior pervades
all aspects of social life, and how economic sociologists have
revealed the inner workings of a wide range of social, political,
and economic phenomena. It admirably serves the double goals of an
introduction to the field, as well as an indispensable reference
for experts." Wayne Baker, University of Michigan

"The field of economic sociology is a crackling new universe of
intellectual energy. It formed out of sociological theory's
insightful understanding of how institutions, culture, and networks
operate and shape economy and society in ways as sure as gravity
affects the movements of the planets. Readings in Economic
Sociology is a must read collection of the core articles that
chart out this new universe of ideas and their implications for
economic action from domestic households to globalization."
Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Readers in Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Readers in Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: action • Activity • Ökonomische Soziologie • Analysis • Areas • Best • consider • economic • Economics • Economic Theory • economy • Field • Foundation • gathers • gripping • Latest • legitimate • national • Ökonomische Soziologie • Products • Smith • Sociologists • Sociology • Sociology of Economics • Soziologie • thirty • Total • Volkswirtschaftslehre • Volume • Wirtschaftstheorie • Writings
• ISBN-10: 0-470-75470-2 / 0470754702
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-75470-2 / 9780470754702