Carlo Trigilia

Economic Sociology

State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, this book identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move from economics to economic sociology. Economic Sociology begins with the classic writings by Simmel, Sombart, Weber, Durkheim, Veblen, Polanyi, and Schempeter, and highlights how these writings contributed to developing a theory of economic action as socially oriented action. The book then examines the social consequences of capitalism up to the present, including discussions about modernization and the welfare state. The volume is an historical introduction that illustrates how economic sociology has contributed to the understanding of the origins and characteristics of capitalism in the West, liberal capitalism, and the more highly regulated and organized capitalism which has come into being since the thirties. Economic Sociology presents the methodology and research themes accessibly, and each part is organized and presented so that it may be read as a single unit, according to students' specific needs. This is an excellent introduction to the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780631225362
• ISBN-10: 0631225366
• Artikelnr.: 21668109

Autorenporträt

Carlo Trigilia is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence. He is the author of Sviluppo senza autonomia. Effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno, which won the Amalfi European Prize in Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction: What is Economic Sociology?.

Part I: The Classics and the Sociology of Capitalism.

Part II: Themes and Routes of Contemporary EconomicSociology.

Notes.

References.

Rezensionen

"Carlo Trigilia's book marks a major milestone in the developmentof economic sociology. For the first time, we have a theoreticallysophisticated and lucid account of the field's evolution from 1890to the present. Trigilia is masterful in demonstrating thetheoretical and methodological continuities from Weber, Sombart,Durkheim, Polanyi, and others to the new economic sociology of thepast two decades. This is a must read not only for economicsociologists but for everyone who wants to understand the historyof social theory."
--Fred Block, University of California at Davis

"With Trigilia's book, sociology has finally returned to itsoriginal territory, after it seemed to have lost it forever toeconomics. With impressive erudition, the author moves from theclassics to the modern debate on varieties of capitalism."
--Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study ofSocieties