317684434

Economic Sociology [Elektronische Ressource] : A Systematic Inquiry

Portes, Alejandro,i1944-

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010

322 p.

Description based upon print version of record

978-0-691-14223-4

MS 4800

 

Wirtschaft  Wirtschaftssoziologie 

 

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Online-Ressource

978-1-400-83517-1

 

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions,...