Modern Guide to Economic Sociology

Edited by Milan Zafirovski, Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, US

'A comprehensive and stimulating guide, written by some of the best known scholars in the field, that shows how the theoretical and empirical findings of economic sociology correspond and complement those of economics, as a sort of countermelody that enriches our knowledge of the relationships between economy and society.'

• Contents:1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology 1Milan Zafirovski2 Society and economy: three easy ways to a complex relationship 32Filippo Barbera3 Institutions and the economy 52Geoffrey M. Hodgson4 Social relations and economy: the effects of social ties andnetworks on economic behavior 70David Knoke and Anna Bokun5 Social stratification and economy: class, power and statusfactors in economic actions and processes 90Eric Bjorklund and Ronald L. Breiger6 Politics, ideology, and the economy 108David Weakliem7 Law, regulation and the economy: the impact of legalnorms and regulations on economic actions and outcomes 125Linzi Berkowitz and Harland Prechel8 A metatheoretical framework for understandinginteractions among culture, ecology, art and economics inlate modernity 144Thomas J. Burns, Tom W. Boyd and Carrie M. Leslie9 Moral economy: moral forces in economic activity 166Patrick Sachweh and Till Hilmar10 Society, production and work 186Christoph Deutschmann11 Acceptance or aversion? Understanding society’s interplaywith wealth inequality 204Peter D. Brandon12 Societies and markets: the challenge of unsustainabledevelopment 219Enzo Mingione13 The evolution of society and the evolution ofentrepreneurship: from creative construction to creativedestruction 241Jerald Hage14 Aesthetic and ethical orientations in consumption and lifestyles 264Sebastian Weingartner, Patrick Schenk and Jörg Rössel15 The joyous birth and sad story of the death of HomoEconomicus: a perspective from and implications foreconomic sociology 287Milan ZafirovskiIndex 338