A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology

Edited by Milan Zafirovski, Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, US

Contents:

1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology 1
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2 Society and economy: three easy ways to a complex relationship 32
Filippo Barbera
3 Institutions and the economy 52
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
4 Social relations and economy: the effects of social ties and
networks on economic behavior 70
David Knoke and Anna Bokun
5 Social stratification and economy: class, power and status
factors in economic actions and processes 90
Eric Bjorklund and Ronald L. Breiger
6 Politics, ideology, and the economy 108
David Weakliem
7 Law, regulation and the economy: the impact of legal
norms and regulations on economic actions and outcomes 125
Linzi Berkowitz and Harland Prechel
8 A metatheoretical framework for understanding
interactions among culture, ecology, art and economics in
late modernity 144
Thomas J. Burns, Tom W. Boyd and Carrie M. Leslie
9 Moral economy: moral forces in economic activity 166
Patrick Sachweh and Till Hilmar
10 Society, production and work 186
Christoph Deutschmann
11 Acceptance or aversion? Understanding society’s interplay
with wealth inequality 204
Peter D. Brandon
12 Societies and markets: the challenge of unsustainable
development 219
Enzo Mingione
13 The evolution of society and the evolution of
entrepreneurship: from creative construction to creative
destruction 241
Jerald Hage
14 Aesthetic and ethical orientations in consumption and lifestyles 264
Sebastian Weingartner, Patrick Schenk and Jörg Rössel
15 The joyous birth and sad story of the death of Homo
Economicus: a perspective from and implications for
economic sociology 287
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Index 338