Economic Sociology: Bringing Back Social Factors
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The spectacular revival of economic sociology in the US in the 1980s and in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century will be regarded as part of a paradigm shift in social sciences. Whereas classical sociology almost always dealt with normatively defined situations and value-based actions in which individual decisions, interests, and other situational aspects disappear from view, neo-classical economic theory focused on the rational autonomous individual trying to maximize private utility in market structures and therefore neglected social institutions as an important aspect of economic life.
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