Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0804769524; ISBN13: 978-0804769525. This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 358 p. "This fine study provides a comprehensive analysis of the way mass publics in Latin America view market reforms. Andy Baker shows that people are inclined to evaluate trade liberalization quite differently from privatization, and he argues persuasively that such judgments are based not on their assets or their position in the labor...
The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England. 2002. Thoughts on Friends and Other Noteworthy Persons. Economics of Social Issues. Economic Growth, Democracy, and Things International. Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and the Macroeconomy.
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 334 p. Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic...
Beckert J., Zafirovski M. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology Routledge, 2011. — 794 p. — ISBN: 0521736668, 0415286735, 9780521736664, 9780415286732. The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is the first encyclopedia in the field and a timely response to the surge of interest in economic sociology over the last 30 years. Economic Sociology deals...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. — 141 p. — ISBN: 978-3-659-59925-5 The overall sense of this research is captured by the book’s title: homo oeconomicus, as the subject of economics, should be abandoned in favor of homo symbolicus. More precisely, homo oeconomicus can stay on the scene as long as human choices are simple. However, when choices have to deal with...
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. 1 edition. 2002. ISBN-10: 0631228624. ISBN-13: 978-0631228622. (384 p.). Series: Blackwell Readers in Sociology. Foundational Statements - Economic Action - Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets - Economic Culture and the Culture of the Economy. "A superb comprehensive tour of the fast-growing field of economic sociology. This book demonstrates...
Routledge, 2005. 322 p. Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much "methodology for methodology's sake" and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory. Containing twenty essays, the book discusses Friedman's essay on methodology, the...
Translated by Gregory Elliott. — London; New York: Verso, 2007. — 627 p. In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new...
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2005. ISBN: 0-203-97709-2 (Master e-book ISBN). (384 p.). Series: The International library of sociology. Founded by Karl Mannheim. Editor: John Urry. Subjects : International finance. International finance-Social aspects. City and town life. Urban economics. Central business districts. Growth and dynamics of financial markets -...
Princeton University Press, 2014. - 388 p. - (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 388 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 296 p. — ISBN-10 p. 0691148198; ISBN-13 978-0691148199. Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age?...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0691148198; ISBN13: 978-0691148199. Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every...
Edward Elgar, 2008. 705 p. ISBN: 978-1-84542-280-6 As this comprehensive companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in the larger web of social and ethical relationships. It also regards economics and...
Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg (eds.). The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. pp.27-57 THE PURPOSE of this chapter is to review critically research on the relationship between culture and economy. Most of us are accustomed to the view, assimilated by social research and theory, that economic...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. 174 p. The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 208 p. How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis...
Palgrave, 2018. — 293 p. This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions facing young people today: how to...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 384 p. This probing study of the World Bank examines not its brute financial muscle but its "hegemony"-the rhetorical strategies, training programs and patronage networks that let the Bank frame debate and cajole even critics into endorsing its agenda. Sociologist Goldman focuses on what he calls the Bank's "green neoliberalism," a fashionable...
Paperback: 262 p. Publisher: Verso (October 27, 1989) Language: English André Gorz's earlier books — from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise — have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the...
American journal of Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 3 (November 1985) pp.481-510 In the field of economic sociology, Granovetter has been a leader since the publication in 1985 of an article that launched "new economic sociology", "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness". This article caused Granovetter to be identified with the concept of "Embeddedness",...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 272 p. Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: We are the most educated and hard-working generation in American history. We poured...
Mouton: UNESCO, 1963. — 436 p. Bert F. Hoselitz - Main Concepts in the Analysis of the Social Implications of Technical Change Neil J. Smelser - Mechanisms of Change and Adjustment to Change Entrepreneurship and Innovation W. Thomas Easterbrook - The Entrepreneurial Function in Relation to Technological and Economic Change David C. McClelland - The Achievement Motive in...
Mouton: UNESCO, 1963. — 436 p. Bert F. Hoselitz - Main Concepts in the Analysis of the Social Implications of Technical Change Neil J. Smelser - Mechanisms of Change and Adjustment to Change Entrepreneurship and Innovation W. Thomas Easterbrook - The Entrepreneurial Function in Relation to Technological and Economic Change David C. McClelland - The Achievement Motive in...
Vintage, 2000. — 432 p. In this remarkable account, certain to stir the interest of educators, counselors, parents, and people in all types of business as well as young people themselves, Neil Howe and William Strauss provide the definitive analysis of a powerful generation: the Millennials. Having looked at oceans of data, taken their own polls, talked to hundreds of kids,...
Oficyna Naukowa, 2013. — 182 s. Eva Illouz w sposób śmiały i twórczy, nadto klarowny, porusza podstawowe zagadnienia współczesnej kultury. Wychodzi w swoich rozważaniach od zaskakującej tezy, że kapitalizm ukształtował intensywną kulturę uczuć i emocji – w miejscu pracy, w rodzinie i we wszelkich rodzajach więzi społecznych. Co więcej, jeśli stosunki ekonomiczne w coraz to...
Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg (eds.). The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. pp.403-425 THE DISCIPLINES comprising economic sociology usually take issues concerning supply and production more seriously than demand and consumption. Both economics and sociology developed when the technology of...
London: Verso, 2012. — 325 p. The working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. Media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1001 p. Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of...
London: Sage Publications, 1994. — 372 p. — (Theory, Culture & Society). — ISBN10: 0803984723; ISBN13: 978-0803984721. Economies of Signs and Space presents a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of ‘society’ In this extraordinary and wide-ranging book, two eminent theorists develop a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis social...
London: Sage Publications, 1994. — 372 p. — (Theory, Culture & Society). — ISBN10: 0803984723; ISBN13: 978-0803984721. Economies of Signs and Space presents a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of ‘society’ In this extraordinary and wide-ranging book, two eminent theorists develop a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis social...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 294 p. Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) in achieving goals for individuals, social...
New York: Aldine Transaction Publisher, 2001. — 333 p. Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support, help, and information from other people. Expanding on concepts originally formulated by...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 430 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 0195391179, 9780195391176 The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems. The 19 original essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars from Asia, North America, and Europe, analyze both...
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Cambridge: Camdridge University Press, 2009. All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.Most societies,...
Simon and Schuster, 2012. — 352 p. Martin Nowak, one of the world’s experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. In his first book written for a wide audience,...
Free Press, 1978. — 448 p. Paige has taken data and shown that collective violence does exist, can be measured and has identifiable causations. He collected the data on incidents of violence and showed that people around the world do in certain circumstances take up revolutionary violence. Paige, using what now has become know as "rational choice Marxism" (which is to say the...
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. 4th ed. (219 p.). Institutions and systems - Organization and roles - Aspects of occupations. This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2008. ISBN: 978-0-262-16252-4 (hbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN: 978-0-262-66207-9 (pbk. : alk. paper). (413 p.). Subjects : Economics - Sociological aspects. Technology - Economic aspects. Introduction - Infrastructure - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market - Technology, Economy, Use. In this book, an attempt is made to...
The International Institute of Sociology / Koninklijke Brill NV., 2000. — 264 p. — (The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology). — ISBN: 9004116648. Societies, Corporations, and the Nation State - Values in a Polytheistic World - Freedom vs. Control in Post-Modern Society: A Relational Approach - The Universality of Freedom and Control - The Contemporary Scene -...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 197 p. This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity. It attempts to put some conceptual and descriptive order around issues of urbanization in the contemporary world, emphasizing the idea of the social economy of the metropolis, which is to say, a view...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 279 p. It's no secret that your genes have a subtle, but powerful impact on your job and career. But did you know that your DNA accounts for one third of the difference between you and your co-workers in many aspects of work life, from job satisfaction to income level? That's the revelation of this fascinating book--one that will change the way...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 310 p. — (Rethinking International Development). — ISBN10: 1349368008; ISBN13: 978-1349368006 Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social...
Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg (eds.). The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. pp.3-26 As A FIELD of inquiry, economic sociology is an easily recognized field within the discipline, but among nonsociologists, including many economists, its contours are not familiar.1 We begin, therefore, by...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — 749 p. Introducing Economic Sociology Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg Comparative and Historical Approaches to Economic Sociology Frank Dobbin The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology Victor Nee Principles of an Economic Anthropology Pierre Bourdieu Behavioral Economics Roberto Weber and Robyn Dawes Emotions and the Economy...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 304 p. Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses...
Principles of Economic Sociology. Richard Swedberg Published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, 2003, by Princeton University Press. pp.33-52 The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion in the popularity, creativity, and productiveness of economic sociology, an approach that traces its roots back to Max Weber. This important new text offers a comprehensive...
Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg (eds.). The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. pp.255-282 THE MARKET represents one of the most important economic institutions in contemporary society.1 It has also become a key word in political discourse all over the world. Given this centrality, it is no...
Principles of Economic Sociology Richard Swedberg Published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted, 2003, by Princeton University Press. pp.1-31 Principles of Economy Sociology is an ambitious book. Swedberg sets out to provide a thorough survey of the field. This includes addressing the foundations, framework of analyses and topics of study of economic sociology. [It]...
Liberty, 2015. — 130 p. Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World argues that today's emergent technology is about more than new and cool toys. Jeffrey Tucker, CLO of Liberty.me and Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, argues that peer-to-peer technology is forging a new and brighter social, economic, and political order. People tend to look at...
Emerald Group Publishing Limited – 2010, 455 p. ISBN: 1849509220, 9781849509220 "Case Study Research: Theory, Methods and Practice" looks at the research processes involved in conducting methods including participant observation, fuzzy set social science, system dynamics, decision systems analysis, forced metaphor elicitation technique, ethnographic decision tree modeling,...
Springer, 2017. — 88 p. This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers important insights into an often invisible side of the economy, namely the contribution...
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