Author : A.W. Bob Coats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134918232
Coats has made an outstanding contribution to the history of economic thought, economic methodology and the sociology of economics. This unique volume represents a substantial part of his work on the sociology and professionalization of economics.
Author : Alfred William Coats
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415067162
A. W. Coats has made unique contributions to the history of economic thought, the sociology of economics, and economic methodology. This newest volume in the series British and American Economic Essays is the first to draw together a substantial portion of his work on the sociology and professionalization of economics. This volume contains the work for which Coats is perhaps most widely known. It gathers his essays on the social nature of economics as a science, the origin and history of some of the institutions which have done the most to shape the development of the discipline, and the issue of economics as a profession. As with the other volumes in the series, there is a particular emphasis on the similarity and differences between economics and economists in Britain and in North America.
Author : Alfred William Bob Coats
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780415067157
Author : Mary Furner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1351533738
This award-winning book of the Frederick Jackson Turner Studies describes the early development of social science professions in the United States. Furner traces the academic process in economics, sociology, and political science. She devotes considerable attention to economics in the 1880s, when first-generation professionals wrestled with the enormously difficult social questions associated with industrialization. Controversies among economists reflected an endemic tension in social science between the necessity of being recognized as objective scientists and an intense desire to advocate reforms. Molded by internal conflicts and external pressures, social science gradually changed. In the 1890s economics was defined more narrowly around market concerns. Both reformers and students of social dynamics gravitated to the emerging discipline of sociology, while political science professionalized around the important new field of public administration. This division of social science into specialized disciplines was especially significant as progressivism opened paths to power and influence for social science experts. Professionalization profoundly altered the role and contribution of social scientists in American life. Since the late nineteenth century, professionals have exerted increasing control over complex economic and social processes, often performing services that they themselves have helped to make essential. Furner here seeks to discover how emerging groups of American social scientists envisioned their role what rights and responsibilities they claimed how they hoped to perform a vital social function as they fulfilled their own ambitions, and what restraints they recognized.
Author : Adolf Löwe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113651953X
Arguing that the disciplines of economics and sociology are inter-related and vitally important to each other, this book discusses major issues such as the effects of urbanization, population growth, and the growth of various forms of nationalism from both economic and socio-political viewpoints. In addition the significance and limits of pure economics are examined, as are the sociological factors in modern economic theory, as well as power and economic law.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691218161
The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus. Weber's substantive views on economic sociology are represented in this volume through crucial excerpts from works such as his General Economic History and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but the reader can follow his attempt to construct a conceptual foundation for economic sociology in Economy and Society as well. Also included is Weber's celebrated inaugural lecture, "The Freiburg Address," along with a number of central but hitherto inaccessible writings. Though written nearly a century ago, Weber's work has the quality of a true classic, and the reader will find many ideas in his writings on economic topics that remain applicable in today's world. These include Weber's discussion of what is now called social capital, his analysis of the institutions needed for a well-functioning capitalist economy, and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis. As this volume demonstrates, what basically motivated Weber to work with economic sociology was a realization shared by many economists and sociologists today: that the analysis of economic phenomena must include an understanding of the social dimension. Guided by volume editor Swedberg, the reader of this anthology discovers the significance and the enduring relevance of Weber's contribution to economic sociology.
Author : John Maloney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000680002
This book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.
Author : Talcot Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1134685823
This volume is designed as a contribution to the synthesis of theory ineconomics and sociology. We believe that the degree of separationbetween these two disciplines separation emphasized by intellectualtraditions and present institutional arrangements arbitrarily concealsa degree of intrinsic intimacy between them which must be brought tothe attention of the respective professional groups.
Author : Richard Swedberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400829372
The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion in the popularity, creativity, and productiveness of economic sociology, an approach that traces its roots back to Max Weber. This important new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of economic sociology. It also advances the field theoretically by highlighting, in one analysis, the crucial economic roles of both interests and social relations. Richard Swedberg describes the field's critical insights into economic life, giving particular attention to the effects of culture on economic phenomena and the ways that economic actions are embedded in social structures. He examines the full range of economic institutions and explicates the relationship of the economy to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role that self-interested behavior plays in economic decisions, while economists frequently underestimate the importance of social relations. Thus, he argues that the next major task for economic sociology is to develop a theoretical and empirical understanding of how interests and social relations work in combination to affect economic action. Written by an author whose name is synonymous with economic sociology, this text constitutes a sorely needed advanced synthesis--and a blueprint for the future of this burgeoning field.
Author : Jeffrey K. Hass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315439662
Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of power and structure, grounded in institutions and culture. What is calculated, how, and why? Are profit and efficiency always so central to economic structures and outcomes? What shapes change and reproduction in economic practices and policies? How have classes and states, using power and institutions, created and continue to shape the economic world we live in? This second edition presents a critical and sophisticated, yet approachable analysis of economic behavior and phenomena. After describing key concepts and logics of economic sociology and of economic sociology (its eternal cousin and competitor), Hass turns the sociologist’s analytic eye to the heart of economic practices comparing how they work in the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist Russia and China. The volume addresses crucially important economic issues that touch our well-being and justice: the rise and structuring of capitalism; relations between states and economies; economic policies; economies and inequality; and organizations and corporations. Causes and consequences of globalization and the Great Recession are laid out for the reader. With economics and economic sociology placed side-by-side in this journey of how economies operate in the past and present, the reader gets different perspectives on economic reality. Power and culture, institutions and fields, classes and corporations interact on this historical and global stage. Written in a clear and direct style, this textbook will appeal to students and scholars in economic sociology, sociology of work, economics, social policy, political economy and comparative sociology
