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The sociology of economic life / edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg.
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Language
English
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Third edition.
Published/Created
New York : Westview Press, [2011]
Description
xli, 545 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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Economics
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Summary note
"Granovetter and Swedberg have done it again. In addition to the timeless classics, this new edition includes several imporatant recent works as well as an expanded introduction. The Sociology of Economic Life will continue to be an ideal teaching tool for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as a valuable reference for scholars."-Mark S. Mizruchi, University of Michigan.
"[The Sociology of Economic Life] will fortify the reader to join the rapidly moving fronts of economic sociology, for which Swedberg is perhaps the leading observer and Granovetter the leading essayist. This book reaches the beginning student as easily as a specialist." -Harrison White, Columbia University [on the Second Edition].
"The isolated individual agent of standard economic theory is in real life embedded in a set of social relations which must modify and direct the purely market interactions. This reader, by drawing together a large body of soundly researched material, can be useful in enriching our analysis of economic instritutions and their workings." -Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University [on the first Edition].
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 esclusively 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 intoroduction 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 cuttingedge research and present the essential scholarship in the field. --Book Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The economy as instituted process / Karl Polanyi
Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter
The impact of social structure on economic outcomes / Mark Granovetter
Max Weber's central text in economic sociology / Richard Swedberg
The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu
Embeddedness and immigration: notes on the social determinants of economic action / Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner
The bazaar economy: information and search in peasant marketing / Clifford Geertz
Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in 19th century America / Viviana A. Zelizer
The transformation of morals in markets: death, benefits, and the exchange of life insurance policies / Sarah Quinn
Economic and sociological approaches to gender inequality in pay / William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson
Non-contractual relations in business; a preliminary study / Stewart Macaulay
Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness / Brian Uzzi
What is sociological about banks and banking? / Bruce Carruthers
Constructing a market, performing a theory: the historical sociology of a financial derivatives exchange / Donald MacKenzie and Yuval Millo
Group dynamics and intergroup relations / George Strauss
Selection from Men who manage / Melville Dalton
Bureaucratic and craft administration of production: a comparative study / Arthur Stinchcombe
Processing fads and fashions: an organization-set analysis of cultural industry systems / Paul M. Hirsch
Inside-out: regional networks and industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 / AnnaLee Saxenian
Weber's last theory of capitalism: a systematization / Randall Collins
Why the economy reflects the polity: early rail policy in Britain, France and the United States / Frank Dobbin
E pluribus unum? The varieties of capitalism / Wolfgang Streeck
Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism / Ronald Dore
Developing difference: social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina / Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Mauro F. Guillén
Transitions from state socialism: a property rights perspective / Andrew Walder.
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ISBN
9780813344553 ((alk. paper))
0813344557 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2010043973
OCLC
671386248
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