The Sociology of Economic Life

Introduction Foundations of Economic Sociology * The Economy as an Instituted Process Karl Polanyi * Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness Mark Granovetter * Max Webers Vision of Economic Sociology Richard Swedberg * Forms of Capital Pierre Bourdieu * Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner The Sociology of Markets * The Bazaar Economy Clifford Geertz * Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America Viviana Zelizer * Economic and Sociological Approaches to Gender Inequality in Pay William Bridges and Robert Nelson * Non-Contractural relations in Business Stewart Macaulay * Social Structure and Competition: The Paradox of Embeddedness Brian Uzzi The Sociology of Firms and Markets * Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations George Strauss * Men Who Manage Melville Dalton * Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production Arthur Stinchcombe * Processing Fads and Fashions Paul Hirsch * Functional and Historical Logics in Explaining the Rise of the American Industrial Corporation William Roy * Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy Mark Granovetter * Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 AnnaLee Saxenian Comparative and Historical Economic Sociology * Webers Last Theory of Capitalism Randall Collins * Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States Frank Dobbin * 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 Hamilton and Nicole Biggart * Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism David Stark About the Book and the Editors