Skip to:Content
|
Bottom
Economic sociology : a systematic inquiry için kapak resmi
Başlık:
Economic sociology : a systematic inquiry
Yazar:
Portes, Alejandro, 1944- author
ISBN:
9780691142227

9780691142234
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
İçerik:
Economic sociology : past achievements and present challenges -- The assumptions that ground the field -- Social capital -- The concept of institutions -- The concept of social class -- Social class (continued) -- The informal economy -- Ethnic enclaves and middleman minorities -- Transnational communities -- Markets, models, and regulation.
Özet:
The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. He argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior. Drawing upon a wealth of examples, Portes identifies three strategic sites of research--the informal economy, ethnic enclaves, and transnational communities--and he eschews grand narratives in favor of mid-range theories that help us understand specific kinds of social action. The book shows how the meta-assumptions of economic sociology can be transformed, under certain conditions, into testable propositions, and puts forward a theoretical agenda aimed at moving the field out of its present impasse.
Holds:
Copies:

Mevcut:*

Library
Materyal Türü
Demirbaş
Yer Numarası
Durumu / Lokasyon / İade Tarihi
Arıyor...
Kitap EKOBKN0009477 306.3 POR 2010
Arıyor...

On Order

Go to:Top of Page