ISBN:
9780691121260
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (749 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, reviewed, and adopted. Since then, the field of economic sociology has continued to grow by leaps and bounds and to move into new theoretical and empirical territory. The second edition, while being as
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: GENERAL CONCERNS; 1. Introducing Economic Sociology; 2. Comparative and Historical Approaches to Economic Sociology; 3. The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology; 4. Principles of an Economic Anthropology; 5. Behavioral Economics; 6. Emotions and the Economy; PART II: THE ECONOMIC CORE: ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND BEHAVIOR; Section A: The Economy in a Macrosociological Perpective; 7. The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World; 8. The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Political and Economic Sociology of International Economic Arrangements10. Post-Communist Economic Systems; Section B The Sociology of Economic Institutions and Economic Behavior; 11. Markets in Society; 12. The Sociology of Labor Markets and Trade Unions; 13. Banking and Financial Markets; 14. Sociology of Work and Occupations; 15. Culture and Consumption; 16. The Sociology of Money and Credit; 17. Networks and Economic Life; 18. The Informal Economy; Section C: The Sociology of Firms, Organizations, and Industries; 19. Business Groups and Social Organization; 20. Entrepreneurship
Description / Table of Contents:
21. Firms and EnvironmentsPART III: INTERSECTIONS OF THE ECONOMY; 22. The State and the Economy; 23. A Sociological Approach to Law and the Economy; 24. Welfare States and the Economy; 25. Education and the Economy; 26. New Directions in the Study of Religion and Economic Life; 27. Gender and Economic Sociology; 28. The Ethnic Economy; 29. Technology and the Economy; 30. The Economy and the Environment; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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