1st Russian Economic Congress, Moscow, December 7–9, 2009. Some Impressions from Economic Sociology Section

Asa Economic Sociology Section Newsletter Accounts

Global economic changes and the role of multinational firms have been of central interest to economic sociologists. Mauro Guillén—who holds appointments at the Wharton School and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania—has made important contributions to our understanding of these issues through several books. Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994) co...

Economic Sociology

s of papers relating to these issues are invited for consideration for the conferenceand should be sent to Andrew Sayer at the address below by the extended deadline of1 March 2005 Conference organiser: Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy,Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, U.K. [email protected] Conference secretary: Pennie Drink...

What Is Economic Sociology

1 Introducing Economic Sociology

As a designated field of inquiry, economic sociology is not much more than a century old, even though its intellectual roots are identifiable in older traditions of philosophical and social thought. During the past quarter-century it has experienced an explosive growth, and now stands as one of the most conspicuous and vital subfields of its parent discipline. In this introduction we first defi...

Public sociology and economic sociology: introductory remarks

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...