Economic Sociology: An Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0415392225
- ISBN-13
- 9780415392228
- Series
- Economic Sociology
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Jeffrey Kenneth Hass
Description
List of illustrations p. xi Preface p. xii Acknowledgements p. xiv 1 Economic sociology unbound p. 1 Intellectual history and foundations: legacies of classical sociology p. 3 Rebirth: political economy and new economic sociology p. 7 New economic sociology: fundamental concepts p. 9 The basics of economic sociology p. 11 Structural embeddedness p. 11 Cognitive embeddedness p. 13 Cultural embeddedness p. 14 Institutional embeddedness p. 14 Political embeddedness p. 15 Traditions within economic sociology p. 16 Limitations of new economic sociology p. 18 2 Sociology and economics. Economic theory and its sociological critique p. 19 The significant other: neoclassical economics and institutional economics p. 20 Rational actors and rational choice p. 20 Competition and assuming markets: efficiency, equilibrium, and evolution p. 24 Overall evaluation: economics and its sociological critique p. 28 Advances in economic theory p. 30 3 The rise of markets and economic development p. 37 Economists and development p. 39 What is "capitalism"? p. 40 Sociology and the rise of capitalism p. 41 Marxist theory: classes and dialectics p. 41 Max Weber: institutions and organizations p. 43 Durkheim, modernity, and capitalism p. 47 Values of modernity and development: modernization theory p. 48 Marxism's revenge: dependency theory and world-systems theory p. 50 Weber returns: institutional and state-centered theory p. 52 States and development: growth versus stagnation p. 53 Development: lessons and the future p. 58 4 The state, public policy, and economic organization p. 63 Efficiency, competition, and "regression to the norm" p. 64 States and economies p. 65 The state's ability to act in the economy p. 65 Policy regimes: a cross-national comparison p. 68 The American model p. 69 The British model p. 71 The French model p. 74 The German model p. 75 East Asian models p. 77 Policies: change and continuity p. 79 Global policy paradigms: Keynesianism, monetarism, and welfare p. 81 Keynesianism p. 81 Monetarism p. 83 Evaluating Keynesianism and monetarism p. 84 Comparison of welfare policies p. 85 Unintended outcomes: states and informal economies p. 86 Comparisons, evaluations, conclusions p. 87 State centered, market centered, and mixed: a comparison p. 88 5 The heart of the economy: Organizations and corporations p. 91 The economists' view: organizations, markets, and efficiency p. 91 New institutional economies (NIE) p. 93 Sociological explanations: institutions, states, power, and culture p. 96 Organizations as structured class power and capitalist logics p. 96 Weberian and neo-Weberian views p. 98 Organizations as "myth and ceremony": neoinstitutionalism p. 102 Class plus institutions: William Roy's synthesis p. 108 Cross-national variation: different organizational forms p. 110 Alternative to the formal organization: "networked organization" p. 112 Work and organizations p. 114 Conclusion: organizations and the modern economy p. 116 6 Economies, inequality, and mobility p. 119 Class and economy p. 120 Economies shape classes p. 122 Classes shape economies: the case of American doctors p. 127 The challenge of class and economic sociology p. 129 Race, ethnicity, and economy p. 130 Race and ethnicity in the American economy p. 130 Ethnicity and the economy: ethnic economies and ethnic enclaves p. 133 Race and ethnicity: class in sheep's clothing? p. 135 Race and ethnicity in European economies p. 137 Race, ethnicity and economy: the challenge and the future p. 139 Gendered economies: glass ceilings and second shifts p. 139 "Gendered economies" p. 143 How a gendered economy reproduces inequality p. 144 The "second shift" p. 149 Change in gender and the economy p. 150 The challenge of gender and economies p. 151 7 The great experiment: markets in the shadows of socialism p. 153 The Soviet economy p. 154 Logics of the Soviet economy and the coming of crisis p. 154 Revisiting the birth of capitalism: post-socialist market-building p. 156 Russian economic reform after the collapse of communism p. 157 The liberalized economy versus the state, mafiia, and shadow economy p. 158 Privatization: the politics of property p. 164 Monetization: market versus virtual value p. 168 Impact of market-building reforms p. 170 A post-socialist success story: China p. 176 Lessons of post-socialism for economic sociology p. 179 8 Brave new world? A critical examination of "globalization" p. 183 The muddles p. 184 Forces for and against globalization p. 186 Promoting globalization p. 186 Resisting globalization p. 188 New phenomenon - or return to the norm? p. 190 Globalization versus regionalization p. 192 The disconnect: global economies and national institutions p. 194 And the moral is ...? p. 196 Conclusion: Remaining challenges of economic sociology in the new millennium p. 199 The lessons p. 200 Structure and actors p. 200 Economies and power culture p. 200 The intellectual-theoretical agenda p. 203 Breaking out of the shadow of economics p. 203 A more unified theory p. 204 The normative (social-political) agenda p. 205 Social justice p. 205 Structures and balance p. 206 Deliberation at heart p. 207 Concept guide and glossary p. 211 Notes p. 215 Bibliography p. 229 Index p. 249.
