| Place of Publication | Boudler, USA : |
| Publisher's Name | Westview Press, |
| Date of Publication | 1992 |
| Extent | vi, 402p. |
| Other Details | charts, indexed, notes, references, tables |
| Item Descriptor | Incorporating classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology as well as offerings from related disciplines this provides the reader with a broad understanding of the dimensions of economic life |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include – Introduction/ Richard Swedberg and Mark Granovetter; The economy as instituted process/ Karl Polanyi; Economic action and social structure – the problem of embeddedness/ Mark Granovetter; Weber’s last theory of capitalism – a systematization/ Randall Collins; Economic backwardness in historical perspective/ Alexander Gerschenkron; The emergence of managerial capitalism/ Alfred D Chandler; Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism/ Ronald Dore; Market, culture, and authority – a comparative analysis of management and organization in the Far East/ Gary G Hamilton, and Nicole Woolsey Biggart; The bazaar economy – information and search in peasant marketing/ Clifford Geertz; The sociological and economic approaches to labor market analysis – a social structural view/ Mark Granovetter; Non-contractual relations in business – a preliminary study/ Stewart Macaulay; Human values and the market – the case of life insurance and death in 19th-century America/ Viviana A Zelizer; Group dynamics and intergroup relations/ George Strauss; Men who manage/ Melville Dalton; Bureaucratic and craft administration of production – a comparative study/ Arthur L Stinchcombe; and Processing fads and fashions – an organization-set analysis of cultural industry systems/ Paul M Hirsch |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Economic sociology
Economics - Sociological aspects
Economic - History
Industrial sociology
Capitalism |
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