New Economic Sociology A Reader

Name: New Economic Sociology A Reader
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ISBN: 9780691049069

ISBN-10: 0691049068

ISBN-13: 9780691049069

Edition: 2004

Authors: Frank Dobbin

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Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight--that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles--to economic behavior. It placeshomo economicus(that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-interest, and has perfect information) in context. In this way, it places a construct into a framework that more closely approximates the world in which we live. But, as an academic field, economic sociology has lost focus.The New Economic Sociologyremedies this. The book comprises twenty of the most representative and widely read articles in the field's history--its classics--and organizes them…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Frank Dobbin is professor of sociology at Harvard University. His books include "Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain", and "France in the Railway Age; The New Economic Sociology: A Reader" (Princeton); and "The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy".



Acknowledgments



The Sociological View of the Economy



Institutions



From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism




Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony




The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields




From Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children




The Social Construction of Organizations and Markets: The Comparative Analysis of Business Recipes




The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an Organizational Form



Networks



From The Division of Labor in Society




Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness




Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action




A Structural Approach to Markets




From Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition




Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing



Power



From The German Ideology




From The Transformation of Corporate Control




From Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America




From City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution



Cognition



From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life




From The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge




From Organizations: Cognitive Limits on Rationality




From Sensemaking in Organizations



Index