The New Economic Sociology : : A Reader / / ed. by Frank Dobbin.

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 places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.) :; 19 line illus. 19 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter 1 THE SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE ECONOMY
  • INSTITUTIONS
  • Chapter 2 FROM THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
  • Chapter 3 INSTITUTIONALIZED ORGANIZATIONS: FORMAL STRUCTURE AS MYTH AND CEREMONY
  • Chapter 4 THE IRON CAGE REVISITED: INSTITUTIONAL ISOMORPHISM AND COLLECTIVE RATIONALITY IN ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS
  • Chapter 5 FROM PRICING THE PRICELESS CHILD: THE CHANGING SOCIAL VALUE OF CHILDREN
  • Chapter 6 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS RECIPES
  • Chapter 7 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CONGLOMERATE FIRM IN THE 1980S: THE DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL FORM
  • NETWORKS
  • Chapter 8 FROM THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIETY
  • Chapter 9 ECONOMIC ACTION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: THE PROBLEM OF EMBEDDEDNESS
  • Chapter 10 EMBEDDEDNESS AND IMMIGRATION: NOTES ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC ACTION
  • Chapter 11 A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO MARKETS
  • Chapter 12 FROM STRUCTURAL HOLES: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF COMPETITION
  • Chapter 13 EMBEDDEDNESS IN THE MAKING OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL: HOW SOCIAL RELATIONS AND NETWORKS BENEFIT FIRMS SEEKING FINANCING
  • POWER
  • Chapter 14 FROM THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY
  • Chapter 15 FROM THE TRANSFORMATION OF CORPORATE CONTROL
  • Chapter 16 FROM SOCIALIZING CAPITAL: THE RISE OF THE LARGE INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION IN AMERICA
  • Chapter 17 FROM CITY OF CAPITAL: POLITICS AND MARKETS IN THE ENGLISH FINANCIAL REVOLUTION
  • COGNITION
  • Chapter 18 FROM THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
  • Chapter 19 FROM THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: A TREATISE IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Chapter 20 FROM ORGANIZATIONS: COGNITIVE LIMITS ON RATIONALITY
  • Chapter 21 FROM SENSEMAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS
  • INDEX