Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. The Revival of Economic Sociology / Mauro F. Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer
Part I. Major Debates and Conceptual
Approaches in Economic
Sociology
Chapter 2. A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology / Mark Granovetter
Chapter 3. Agreements, Disagreements, and Opportunities in the “New Sociology of Markets” / Neil Fligstein
Chapter 4. Endogenizing “Animal Spirits”: Toward a Sociology of Collective Response to Uncertainty and Risk / Paul DiMaggio
Chapter 5. Enter Culture / Viviana A. Zelizer
Part II.
Social Networks and
Economic Sociology
Chapter 6. Markets and Firms: Notes Toward the Future of Economic Sociology / Harrison C. White
Chapter 7. The Social Capital of Structural Holes / Ronald S. Burt
Part III.
Gender Inequality and
Economic Sociology
Chapter 8. Telling Stories About Gender and Effort: Social Science Narratives About Who Works Hard for the Money / William T. Bielby and Denise D. Bielby
Chapter 9. Rethinking Employment Discrimination and Its Remedies / Barbara F. Reskin
Chapter 10. Gender and the Organization-Building Process in Young High-Tech Firms / James N. Baron, Michael T. Hannan, Greta Hsu, and Ozgecan Kocak
Chapter 11. Intimate Transactions / Viviana A. Zelizer
Part IV.
The Economic Sociology of
Development
Chapter 12. Social Capital and Community Development / Alejandro Portes and Margarita Mooney
Chapter 13. Globalization and Mobilization: Resistance to Neoliberalism in Latin America / Susan Eckstein
Index