Economic Sociology in Europe

Andrea Maurer is Full Professor of Sociology at University of Trier, Germany. Sebastian Nessel is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Socioeconomics at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Alberto Veira Ramos is Tenured Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.

1. Introduction: Economic sociology in Europe – Current trends and future challenges; Part I: Studies on Markets; 2. Embedding authenticity in production logics. The case of the microbrewery resurgence in Belgium; 3. The power of digital platforms. What do darknet drug platforms have in common with platform giants?; 4. Building trust by assembling signs of trustworthiness in illegalized exchanges: the case of the illegalized house cleaning market in Geneva; Part II: Studies on societal and political institutions; 5. Beyond the gift/commodity binary: sustaining altruism in blood and plasma donation through alternative exchange systems; 6. New art foundations and public museums valuating artists in Paris. Competing strategies in an overlapping zone between the national and the international fields; 7. The moral economy of popular music consumption in post-2010 Hungary: everyday nationalism, familialism, and apoliticism; Part III: Studies on crises from an economic sociological perspective; 8. The impact of social identity: how unemployment affects civic participation beyond financial strain; 9. Changing economic imaginaries: making sense of consumption during the COVID-19 crisis; 10. Cultural entrepreneurship in times of change and crisis: self-employed Dutch artists during the COVID-19 Pandemic; Part IV: Advances in Economic Sociology in Europe; 11. Economic sociology in Europe and North America: an exploration based on a systematic review of the literature