The sociology of economic life / edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg

Includes bibliographical references and index

"The economy as instituted process" / Karl Polanyi -- "Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness" / Mark Granovetter -- "Max Weber's vision of economic sociology" / Richard Swedberg -- The forms of capital" / Pierre Bourdieu -- "Embeddedness and immigration: notes on the social determinants of economic action" / Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner -- "The bazaar economy: information and search in peasant marketing / Clifford Geertz -- "Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in 19th-century America" / Viviana A. Zelizer -- "Economic and sociological approaches to gender inequality in pay" / William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson -- "Non-contractual relations in business: a preliminary study" / Stewart Macaulay -- "Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness" / Brian Uzzi -- "Group dynamics and intergroup relations" / George Strauss

"Men who manage" / Melville Dalton -- "Bureaucratic and craft administration of production: a comparative study" / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Processing fads and fashions: an organization-set analysis of cultural industry systems" / Paul M. Hirsch -- "Functional and historical logics in explaining the rise of the American industrial corporation" / William G. Roy -- "Coase revisited: business groups in the modern economy" / Mark Granovetter -- "Inside-out: regional networks and industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128" / AnnaLee Saxenian -- "Weber's last theory of capitalism: a systematization / Randall Collins -- "Why the economy reflects the polity: early rail policy in Britain, France, and the United States" / Frank Dobbin -- "Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism" / Ronald Dore -- "Market, culture, and authority: a comparative analysis of management and organization in the Far East" / Gary G. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart -- "Recombinant property in East European capitalism" / David Stark