reading list of economic sociology

8/6/2019 Reading List of Economic Sociology

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Reading list of economic sociology

Compiled by Patrik Aspers, Jens Beckert, Guido Mllering, and Geny Piotti

Revised version September 2007

The list is divided into 18 sections, each of which covers a substantial field ofresearch. Books dominate the reading list, but shorter articles summarizing themain arguments of these books can usually be found. Articles are included incases where books covering the same issues are not available. In the readers someof the texts mentioned here are reproduced. The readers provide a very goodoverview of this field, and it is also in these one can find reprints of many of themost important, classical as well as contemporary, contributions in economicsociology.

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General overviews, text books and readers of economic sociology

Beckert, Jens/ Rainer Diaz-Bone/ Heiner Ganmann (ed.) 2007: Mrkte als soziale Strukturen,

Campus Verlag, Frankfurt und New York.Beckert, Jens/Milan Zafirovski (eds.), 2006: International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology.

London: Routledge.Carruthers, Bruce/Sarah Babb, 2000:Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure.

Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.Dobbin, Frank, 2004: The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Granovetter, Mark/Richard Swedberg (eds.), 2001: The Sociology of Economic Life. 2nd edition.

Boulder: Westview Press.Guilln, Mauro F., et al., 2002: The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging

Field. New York: Russel Sage Foundation.Hollingsworth, Rogers/Robert Boyer (eds.), 1997: Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness

of Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Smelser, J. Neil/Richard Swedberg, 2005: The Handbook of Economic Sociology. 2nd edition, 1st

edition 1994. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Swedberg, Richard, 2003: Principles of Economic Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University

Press.Trigilia, Carlo, 2002: Economic Sociology. State, Market and Society in Modern Capitalism.

Oxford: Blackwell.

Important theoretical statements

Beckert, Jens, 1996: What is Sociological About Economic Sociology? Uncertainty and theEmbeddedness of Economic Action. In: Theory and Society 25, 803840.

Callon, Michel (ed.), 1998: The Laws of the Market. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Chapter 1.Fligstein, Neil, 1996: Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions. In:

American Sociological Review 61, 656673.Granovetter, Mark, 1985: Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.

In:American Journal of Sociology 91, 481510.White, Harrison, 1981: Where do Markets Come from? In: American Journal of Sociology 87,

517547.Zelizer, Viviana, 1988: Beyond the Polemics of the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and

Empirical Agenda. In: Sociological Forum 3, 614634.

Classical economic sociology

Durkheim, mile, (1893) 1984: The Division of Labour in Society. London: Macmillan and Co.Marshall, Alfred, (1890) 1961: Principles of Economics. Edited with annotations by C. W.

Guillebaud, 2 Vol. London: Macmillan and Co.Marx, Karl, (1867) 1983:Das Kapital. Frankfurt a.M.: Ullstein.Pareto, Vilfredo, (19151916) 1935: Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology. New

York: Dover Publications.Polanyi, Karl, (1944) 1957: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of

Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.Simmel, Georg, (1907) 1977: Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 1: Philosophie des Geldes. Berlin:

Duncker & Humblot.


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Smith, Adam, (1776) 1981: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Indianapolis: Liberty Press.

Sombart, Werner, (19021927) 1969: Der moderne Kapitalismus: Historisch-systematische Darstellung des gesamteuropischen Wirtschaftslebens von seinen Anfngen bis zurGegenwart. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Weber, Max, (192122) 1972: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Grundri der verstehendenSoziologie. Tbingen: Mohr, especially Chapter 1.

Weber, Max, (1923) 1981: General Economic History. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Topics in economic sociology

Capitalisms and political economy

Berger, Suzanne/Ronald Dore (eds.), 1996: National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca:Cornell University Press.Block, Fred, 1990: Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse. Berkeley:

University of California Press.Daems, Hermann/Alfred D. Chandler (eds.), 1980: Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative

Perspective on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.

Crouch, Colin/Wolfgang Streeck (eds.), 1997: Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: MappingConvergence and Diversity. London: Sage.

Greenfeld, Liah, 2001: The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. Harvard:Harvard University Press.

Hall, Peter/David Soskice (eds.), 2001: Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of

Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Nee, Victor/Richard Swedberg (eds.), 2005: The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.Weber, Max, (19041905) 2004: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus.

Mnchen: Beck.

ConsumptionBourdieu, Pierre, (1979) 1984: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Campbell, Colin, 1989: The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. Oxford: Basil

Blackwell.McCracken, Grant, 1988: Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character

of Consumer Goods and Activities. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.Miller, Daniel, 1998:A Theory of Shopping. Cambridge: Polity Press.Slater, Don, 1997: Consumer Culture and Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.Veblen, Thorstein, (1899) 1953: The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of

Institutions. New York: New American Library.

Culture and economy

Bourdieu, Pierre, (1979) 1984: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

DiMaggio, Paul, 1994: Culture and Economy. In: Neil J. Smelser/Richard Swedberg (eds.), TheHandbook of Economic Sociology. 1st edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 27

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Faulkner, Robert, 1983:Music on Demand. New Brunswick: Transaction Books.Gay, Paul du (ed.), 1998: Production of Culture/Cultures of Production. London: Sage.

Velthuis, Olav, 2005: Talking Prices, Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market forContemporary Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Zelizer, Vivana, (1985) 1994: Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of

Children. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

DevelopmentAmsden, Alice, 2001: The Rise of the Rest: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing

Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Evans, Peter, 1995: Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.Gereffi, Gary/ David Spener/ Jennifer Bair (eds.), 2002: Free Trade and Uneven Development. The

North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Gereffi, Gary, Humphrey, John and Sturgeon, Timothy 2005: The Governance of Global ValueChains,Review of International Political Economy 12, 1:78-104.

Palpacuer, Florence/Peter Gibbon/Lotte Thomsen, 2005: New Challenges for DevelopingCountry Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective. In:World Development33, 409430.

EntrepreneurshipGarud, Raghu/Peter Karne (eds.), 2001: Path Dependence and Creation. Mahwah: Lawrence

Erlbaum Associates.Garud, Raghu/Peter Karne, 2003: Bricolage Versus Breakthrough: Distributed and Embedded

Agency in Technology Entrepreneurship. In:Research Policy 32, 277300.

Kirzner, Israel, 1997: Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process. In: Journalof Economic Literature 35, 6085.Schumpeter, Joseph, 1942: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper.Swedberg, Richard (ed.), 2000: Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

EthniceconomiesAldrich, Howard/Roger Waldinger, 1990: Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship. In: Annual Review of

Sociology 16, 111135.Bonacich, Edna/Richard P. Appelbaum, 2000: Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles

Apparel Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press.Light, Ivan H./Parminder Bhachu (eds.), 1993: Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Culture,

Capital and Ethnic Networks. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.Light, Ivan/Steven J. Gold, 2000:Ethnic Economies. San Diego: Academic Press.Portes, Alejandro/Julia Sensenbrenner, 1993: Embeddednes and Immigration: Notes on the Social

Determinants of Economic Action. In:American Journal of Sociology 98, 13201350.Portes, Alejandro (ed.), 1995: The Economic Sociology of Immigration. New York: Russell Sage

Foundation.

Gender

Acker, Joan, 1989: Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity. Philadelphia:Temple University.

England, Paula/George Farkas, 1996:Household, Employment, and Gender: A Social, Economic,

and Demographic View. New York: Aldine.


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Hochschild, Arlie/Barbara Ehrenreich (eds.), 2002: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and SexWorkers in the New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Press.

Glucksam, Miriam, 2000: Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Timeand Space. Durham: Sociology Press. Reskin, Barbara/Debra Branch McBrier, 2000: Why not Ascription? Organized Employment of

Male and Female Managers. In:American Sociological Review 65, 210233.

Globalization

Campbell, John, 2004: Institutional Change and Globalization. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press.

Nye, Joseph (ed.), 2000: Governance in a Globalizing World. Washington, DC: BrookingsInstitution.

Sassen, Saskia, 1998: Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of Peopleand Money. New York: New Press.

Sassen, Saskia, 2001: The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress.

Sklair, Leslie, 2002: Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress.

Stiglitz, Joseph, 2002: Globalization and its Discontents. New York: Norton.

Institutions and institutionalization

Beckert, Jens, 1999: Agency, Entrepreneurs and Institutional Change: The Role of Strategic Choiceand Institutionalized Practices in Organizations. In: Organization Studies 20, 777799.

Djelic, Marie-Laure and Sahlin-Andersson, Kerstin (eds.), 2006: Transnational Governance:Institutional Dynamics of Regulation. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Dobbin, Frank, 1994: Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in theRailway Age. New York: Cambridge University Press.Greenwood, R./Suddaby, R., 2006: Institutional Entrepreneurship in Mature Fields: The Big Five

Accounting Firms. In:Academy of Management Journal 49, 2748.March, James G./Johan P. Olsen, 1989: Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of

Politics. New York: Free Press.Mayntz, Renate/Fritz W. Scharpf (eds.), 1995: Gesellschaftliche Selbstregelung und politische

Steuerung. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.North, Douglass, 1990:Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York:

Cambridge University Press.Powell, Walter/Paul DiMaggio (eds.), 1991: The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Scharpf, Fritz W., 1997: Games Real Actors Play: Actor-Centered Institutionalism in PolicyResearch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Scott, Richard W., 1995:Institutions and Organizations. London: Sage.Streeck, Wolfgang/Kathleen Thelen (eds.), 2005: Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in

Advanced Political Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Williamson, Oliver E., 1985: The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational

Contracting. New York: Free Press.

Markets

Aspers, Patrik, 2005:Markets in Fashion: A Phenomenological Approach. London: Routledge.Beckert, Jens, 2002:Beyond the Market. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/HOCHSCHILD/index.htmhttp://www.britsoc.org.uk/sociologypress/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565845188/qid=1122570905/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_4/002-4976559-6159267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565845188/qid=1122570905/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_4/002-4976559-6159267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565845188/qid=1122570905/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_4/002-4976559-6159267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565845188/qid=1122570905/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_4/002-4976559-6159267?v=glance&s=books&n=507846http://www.britsoc.org.uk/sociologypress/http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/HOCHSCHILD/index.htm


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Beckert, Jens, 2007: Die soziale Ordnung von Mrkten. In: Jens Beckert/ Rainer Diaz-Bone/Heiner Ganmann (eds.):Mrkte als soziale Strukturen, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt undNew York., p. 43-62.

Bourdieu, Pierre 2005: The Social Structures of the Economy. Cambridge: Polity Press.Callon, Michel (ed.), 1998: The Laws of the Market. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.Fligstein, Neil, 2001: The Architecture of Market: An Economic Sociology for the Twenty-First

Century Capitalist Societies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Fligstein, Neil/Dauter, Luke, 2007: The Sociology of Markets. In:Annual Review of Sociology, 33,

105-128.Lie, John, 1997: Sociology of Markets. In:Annual Review of Sociology 23, 241260.MacKenzie, Donald 2006. An Engine, Not a Camera, How Financial Models Shape Markets,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Podolny, Joel, 2005. Status Signals, A Sociological Study of Market Competition, Princeton, NJ.:

Princeton University Press.

White, Harrison, 2002:Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production. Princeton:Princeton University Press.

Money

Deutschmann, Christoph, 1995: Geld als soziales Konstrukt. In:Leviathan 23, 376393.Dodd, Nigel, 1994: The Sociology of Money: Economics, Reason and Contemporary Society.

Cambridge: Polity Press.Ganmann, Heiner, 1996: Geld und Arbeit: Wirtschaftssoziologische Grundlagen einer Theorie

der modernen Gesellschaft. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.Helleiner, Eric, 2003: The Making of National Money. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Ingham, Geoffrey, 2004: The Nature of Money. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Paul, Axel, 2004:Die Gesellschaft des Geldes. Entwurf zu einer monetren Theorie der Moderne.Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften.Simmel, Georg, (1907) 1978: Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge.Zelizer, Viviana, 1994: The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and

Other Currencies. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Morality and justice in the economy

Etzioni, Amitai, 1988: The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics. New York: Free Press.Fourcade, Marion/Kieran Healy, 2007:Moral Views of Market Society. In:Annual Review of

Sociology 33, 285-311.Healy, Kieran, 2006: Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs.

Chicago: Chicago University Press.Nozick, Robert, 1981:Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books.Rawls, John, 1971:A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Sen, Amartya, 1987: On Ethics and Economics. Oxford: Blackwell.Streeck, Wolfgang, 1997: Beneficial Constraints: On the Limits of Rational Voluntarism. In: J. Rogers

Hollingsworth/Robert Boyer (eds.), Contemporary Capitalism. The Embeddedness ofInstitutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 197219.

Walzer, Michael, 1983: Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality. Oxford: Blackwell.

Networks

Burt, Ronald, 1992: Structural Holes. The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.


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Grabher, Gernot (ed.), 1993: The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Industrial Networks.London: Routledge.

Granovetter, Mark, 1985: Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.In:American Journal of Sociology 19, 481510.Powell, Walter W. 1990: Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization. In:

Barry M. Staw/Larry L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 12.Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 295336.

Uzzi, Brian, 1997: Social Structure in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness. In:Administrative Science Quarterly 42, 3567.

Windeler, Arnold, 2001: Unternehmungsnetzwerke: Konstitution und Strukturation. Wiesbaden:Westdeutscher Verlag.

OrganizationAldrich, Howard, 1979: Organizations and Environments. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Hannan, Michael/John Freeman, 1984: Structural Inertia and Organizational Change. In:American Sociology Review 49, 149164.

Kieser, Alfred (ed.), 2002: Organisationstheorien. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.Perrow, Charles, 1999: Normal Accidents. Living with High Risk Technologies. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.Powell, Walter/Paul DiMaggio (eds.), 1991: The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Selznik, Philip, 1949: T(ennessee) V(alley) A(uthority) and the Grass Roots. Berkeley: University

of California Press.Tsoukas, Haridimos/Christian Knudsen (eds.), 2003: The Oxford Handbook of Organization

Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weick, Karl E., 1995:Sensemaking in Organizations

. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Social Capital and Trust

Bachmann, Reinhard/ Akbar Zaheer, 2006: Handbook of Trust Research. Cheltenham: EdwardElgar.

Barber, Bernard, 1983: The Logic and Limits of Trust. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.Beckert, Jens, 2002: Vertrauen und die performative Konstruktion von Mrkten. In: Zeitschrift fr

Soziologie 31, 2743.Cook, Karen (ed.), 2001: Trust in Society. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Dasgupta, Partha/Ismail Serageldin (eds.), 2000: Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective.

Washington, DC: World Bank.Fukuyama, Francis, 1995: Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. London:

Hamish Hamilton.Gambetta, Diego (ed.), 1988: Trust: Making and Breaking Co-operative Relations. Oxford: Basil

Blackwell.Hartmann, Martin/Claus Offe (eds.), 2001: Vertrauen: Die Grundlage des sozialen

Zusammenhalts. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.Luhmann, Niklas, 1979: Trust and Power: Two Works by Niklas Luhmann. Chichester: Wiley.Mllering, Guido, 2006: Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity. Oxford: Elsevier.Portes, Alejandro, 1998: Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology. In:

Annual Review of Sociology 24, 124.Sabel, Charles, 1994: Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development. In:

Neil J. Smelser/Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology. 1st edition.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 137165.


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Regional economies

Crouch, Colin, et al., 2001:Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.Piore, Michael J./Charles F. Sabel, 1984: The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for

Prosperity. New York: Basic Books.Pyke, Frank/Giacomo Becattini/Werner Sengenberger (eds.), 1992:Industrial Districts and Inter-

firm Co-operation in Italy. Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies.Saxenian, Annalee, 1994: Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and

Route 128. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Scott, Allen, 2005: On Hollywood, the Place, the Industry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Storper, Michael C./Richard A. Walker, 1989: The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology

and Industrial Growth. Oxford: Blackwell.

Work and labor markets

Abbott, Andrew, 1993: The Sociology of Work and Occupations. In: Annual Review of Sociology19, 187209.

Burawoy, Michael, 1979:Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process and MonopolyCapitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fox, Alan, 1974:Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations. London: Faber & Faber.Gouldner, Alvin W., 1954: Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy. New York: Free Press.Granovetter, Mark, 1974: Getting a Job. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Hochschild, Arlie, (1983) 2003: The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling.

Reprinted with a new afterword. Berkeley: The University of California Press.Jahoda, Marie/Paul Lazerfeld/Hans Zeisl, (1933) 1972: Marienthal: The Sociography of an

Unemployed Community. London: Tavistock Publications.Streeck, Wolfgang, 1990: Status and Contract as Basic Categories of a Sociological Theory of

Industrial Relations. In: David Sugarman/Gunther Teubner (eds.), Regulating CorporateGroups in Europe. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 105145.

Streeck, Wolfgang, 2005: The Sociology of Labor Markets and Trade Unions. In: Neil Smelser/Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology. 2nd edition. Princeton:Princeton University Press, 254283.

Tilly, Chris/Charles Tilly, 1994: Work under Capitalism. Boulder: Westview Press.

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