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Book SynopsisThis accessible guide to the rapidly growing and interdisciplinary field of modern economic sociology offers critical insights into its fundamental concepts and developments. International in scope, contributions from leading economic sociologists and sociologically-minded economists explore the intersections and implications for theory and empirical research in both disciplines.
A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology positions contemporary studies in relation to earlier developments, highlighting the importance of understanding how stages of economic sociology have corresponded and converged with institutional, social, political and behavioural economics over time. Chapters offer a broad range of perspectives of topical and pressing themes including: wealth inequality, unsustainable development, ethical consumption, society and work, institutions and the economy, and society and entrepreneurship.
Covering both empirical and theoretical aspects of the field, this book will benefit economic sociologists as well as economic sociology students. It will also be an important read for both economics and sociology students looking to better understand the interactions between the two fields and how they depend upon and advance one another.
Trade Review'A comprehensive and stimulating guide, written by some of the best known scholars in the field, that shows how the theoretical and empirical findings of economic sociology correspond and complement those of economics, as a sort of countermelody that enriches our knowledge of the relationships between economy and society.' -- Alberto Martinelli, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy and Former President of the International Social Science Council, France
'This volume offers a fresh look at central contemporary economic issues. The contributors go beyond sociology and fruitfully bring in both historical and current perspectives from adjacent disciplines to create an exciting scientific composition.' -- Patrik Aspers, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology 1 Milan Zafirovski 2 Society and economy: three easy ways to a complex relationship 32 Filippo Barbera 3 Institutions and the economy 52 Geoffrey M. Hodgson 4 Social relations and economy: the effects of social ties and networks on economic behavior 70 David Knoke and Anna Bokun 5 Social stratification and economy: class, power and status factors in economic actions and processes 90 Eric Bjorklund and Ronald L. Breiger 6 Politics, ideology, and the economy 108 David Weakliem 7 Law, regulation and the economy: the impact of legal norms and regulations on economic actions and outcomes 125 Linzi Berkowitz and Harland Prechel 8 A metatheoretical framework for understanding interactions among culture, ecology, art and economics in late modernity 144 Thomas J. Burns, Tom W. Boyd and Carrie M. Leslie 9 Moral economy: moral forces in economic activity 166 Patrick Sachweh and Till Hilmar 10 Society, production and work 186 Christoph Deutschmann 11 Acceptance or aversion? Understanding society’s interplay with wealth inequality 204 Peter D. Brandon 12 Societies and markets: the challenge of unsustainable development 219 Enzo Mingione 13 The evolution of society and the evolution of entrepreneurship: from creative construction to creative destruction 241 Jerald Hage 14 Aesthetic and ethical orientations in consumption and lifestyles 264 Sebastian Weingartner, Patrick Schenk and Jörg Rössel 15 The joyous birth and sad story of the death of Homo Economicus: a perspective from and implications for economic sociology 287 Milan Zafirovski Index 338
