ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
Sociology 920:512
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-3:00, LSH A336
Phone: 445-3705 (w) / 514-0435 (h)
E-mail: pmclean@rci.rutgers.edu
A basic feature of any society is that it produces and/or distributes goods and services necessary for survival. Yet this production and distribution is not only economic in character, but also profoundly social, in that production and distribution originate in a social context, are guided by and in turn affect social structures, involve organized institutional and symbolic practices, and have a variety of important social outcomes.
Economic sociology purports to study this feature of social life. It is one of the most burgeoning and heterogeneous fields in the discipline of sociology today, encompassing a huge variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical foci. Although “World Systems Theory” and “Organizations, Occupations, and Work” have had long-standing status as sections of the ASA, “Economic Sociology” has only achieved such provisional status this year. And yet a glance at recent volumes of the AJS or ASR reveals plenty of material on economy and society, and more specifically on the social structural and/or cultural (symbolic or institutional) underpinnings of much activity traditionally assumed to be motivated chiefly by the self-interest of autonomous actors.
There remains a great deal of contention over just what economic sociology is and how broadly it should be construed. This class is designed as an overview of some of the disparate perspectives comprising the field, although necessarily an imperfect one, in order to begin and/or increase your acquaintance with an important set of literatures, classical and contemporary. An effort has therefore been made to include not only classics of economic sociology with which I feel you should be acquainted, but also some of the most recent books and the most recent articles in the most prominent journals in the discipline.
The class will be run as a discussion seminar, with brief weekly student presentations of material and considerable amounts of discussion. It is unavoidable that I will speak often and occasionally even lecture on the readings, but I would like not to turn the class simply into a lecture. Furthermore, I have organized the readings largely according to theoretical perspectives, rather than key concepts or major levels of analysis (such as individual, firm/group/network, interorganizational field, nation, and global levels). This may hinder our efforts to draw contrasts between perspectives on particular topics, but that is something I hope we will accomplish in discussion.
A number of texts are available for purchase from the Livingston Campus Bookstore. These are:
1) Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg, editors, The Handbook of Economic Sociology (Princeton, 1994)
2) Neil Fligstein, The Transformation of Corporate Control (California, 1990)
3) Viviana Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (Princeton, 1997)
4) Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Chicago, 1976)
5) Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Liberty Classics, 1982)
6) Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition (Norton, 1978)
7) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press, 1980)
8) Doug Guthrie, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China (Princeton, 1999)
9) Katherine Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
Readings from these works are indicated by a single asterisk in the syllabus. I have also ordered the book, Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2000) by Bruce Carruthers and Sarah Babb. This is a readable, fairly simple (read: upper-level undergraduate) treatment of many of the themes we will treat in the course. I think it’s better to read the original research first, or something approaching the original research, but this book could help guide you in your mental organization of material.
I have tried to make most of the required readings come from one of these books. However, many come from one of the three major journals in the field: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Administrative Science Quarterly. Required readings from these latter sources are available at Alexander Library or Kilmer Library (in print or in microform, depending on the year), or on-line for free download (try http://www.umi.com/pqdauto, or http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/gensearch). I will expect you to obtain these materials for yourself. These readings are indicated by a double asterisk in the syllabus.
Thirdly, a small number of required readings are in books that I think you need not purchase. These are available through the Reserve Desk at Kilmer Library here on campus (and hopefully also a copy of them will be available in the department’s library here in LSH), and are indicated by a triple asterisk (***) in the syllabus. Finally, I have provided you with citations for lots of other reading material for each unit of the syllabus. Some of these I have read, many I have not. I have listed them for two reasons. First they may help you pursue matters of greater concern to you on your own. The bibliographies provided in the articles in Smelser and Swedberg’s Handbook should also be an invaluable reference resource for you. Second, the long lists of other materials are pools of material for satisfying one of the two written requirements of the course, which I outline in the next section.
The requirements for this course are twofold:
1) a 15-20 page research paper, due at the end of the semester. This may be original research (preferable, but most difficult), or research based on secondary sources, or an application of theoretical ideas from one segment of our course to material read in another segment, or if necessary, a detailed critical review of a body of literature selected from one or two particular weeks of the course.
2) Three one-page briefs based on supplemental readings, to be completed at the discretion of the student during the semester. For each brief, pick one supplemental reading listed on the syllabus, write up a précis of its content and some criticisms or questions concerning it, make enough copies of the brief for everyone in the class to get a copy by Tuesday morning, and come to class prepared to present your summary and opinions of the piece in class. You have to do three of these during the semester; when you do them is up to you.
Week 1 Introduction to the course
Week 2 Adam Smith and Classical Political Economy
Readings:
1) *The Wealth of
Nations, pp. 1-23,
291-293, 351-364; 26-35, 62-82, 88-97, 275-278; 450-455, 472-480, 513-515,
519-524
2) *The Theory of Moral Sentiments, pp. 9-26, 43-45, 50-57,
61-64, 77-78 (par. 10 only), 109-117, 179-187 (including par. 1 of ch. 2)
Some other materials, mostly background:
R.
T. Gill, Evolution of Modern Economics
(Prentice Hall, 1967) esp. chs. 2 and 4
Randall
Bartlett, Economics and Power (Cambridge,
1989)
Albert O. Hirschman, Rival Views of Market
Society and Other Essays (New York:
Elisabeth Sifton Books, 1986)
Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the
Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph. (Princeton, 1977)
John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman,
editors, The
New Palgrave (Macmillan, 1987)
Max Weber, “Sociological Categories of Economic
Action,” in Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology,
pp. 63-206. (California, 1978) [perhaps
especially sections 1-4, 8, 9, 13-15, 20-23, 41) (hardly simply ‘classical
political economy,’ but no time to deal with on its own]
Week 3 Marxian Analysis, Classical and Contemporary
Readings:
1)
*Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 203-219 [For a longer and more
detailed version, see pp. 329-361, 376-388, 397-415, 419-431)]
2)
*The Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 67, 70-81, 93-105, 319-328
3) ***Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory, pp. 3-42, 144-166 (plus pp. 216-221, 385-399 if you’re really into it) (Cambridge, 1993)
4) **Erik O. Wright, “Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise,” American Journal of Sociology 105,4 (2000):957-1002
We’d do all right perhaps just to read Marx and work through it, but Postone and Wright offer two of the most ambitious, fascinating and/or thoughtful appropriations of Marx in the last decade; and Wright in particular is at or near the center of the subdiscipline of economic sociology.
Some other materials on Marxism, workplace domination, and class analysis:
Erik
Olin Wright, Classes (London: Verso, 1985)
Erik
Olin Wright, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis, pp.
1-37, 203-222 (plus pp. 407-458 if you’re
really into it) (Cambridge, 1997)
G.
A. Cohen, History, Labor and Freedom (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1988)
Jon
Elster, Making Sense of Marx (Cambridge, 1986)
Michael
Burawoy, The Politics of Production
(London: Verso, 1985)
Michael
Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly
Capitalism (Chicago, 1979)
David
Harvey, The Limits to Capital
(Chicago, 1982)
Samuel
Bowles and Herbert Gintis, “Contested Exchange: New Microfoundations for the
Political Economy of Capitalism,” Politics & Society 18,2
(1990):165-222.
Richard
Edwards, Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the
Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1979)
P. Baran and P. Sweezy, Monopoly Capitalism (NY:
Monthly Review Press, 1968)
G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America? Power and
Politics in the Year 2000 (Mayfield, 1998)
Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk, Uneven
Tides: Rising Inequality in America (Russell Sage, 1993)
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy (NY: Harper & Row, 1976)
Week 4 Understanding the Economy as Contingent Social Process, plus some Postindustrialism Theorizing
Readings:
1) *Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, “The Sociological Perspective on the Economy,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 3-26
2) *Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, chs. 3-6, 11-18
Some other materials:
Karl
Polanyi, “The Economy as Instituted Process,” in The Sociology of Economic
Life, pp. 29-51. Edited by Mark
Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. (Westview,
1992) OR: in Primitive,
Archaic, and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi, pp. 139-174. Edited by G. Dalton. (Beacon, 1968)
Jozsef
Borocz, “Simulating the Great Transformation: Property Change Under Prolonged
Informality in Hungary,” Archives europeenes de sociologie 34
(1993):81-107.
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Economic Sociology. (Academic Press, 1983)
Fred
Block, Postindustrial Possibilities (California, 1990), esp. chs. 2-4, 6
Larry
Hirschhorn, Beyond Mechanization: Work and Technology in a Postindustrial
Age. (MIT, 1984)
Michael
Piore and Charles Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide (1984)
Arthur
L. Stinchcombe, “Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production,” Administrative
Science Quarterly 4:168-187
Erik
Olin Wright, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis, ch. 3
Wolfgang
Streeck, “On the Institutional Conditions of Diversified Quality Production,”
in E. Matzner and Wofgang Streeck, eds., Beyond Keynesianism: The
Socio-Economics of Production and Employment (London: Edward Elgar, 1991)
Bennett
Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the
Age of Flexibility. (Basic Books,
1994)
Michael
Best, The New Competition (Harvard,
1990)
Richard Swedberg, “Major Traditions of Economic
Sociology,” Annual Review of Sociology 17 (1991):251-276.
Paul
Hirsch, Stuart Michaels, and Ray Friedman, “Clean Models vs. Dirty Hands: Why
Economics is Different from Sociology,” in Structures of Capital, pp.
39-56. Edited by Sharon Zukin and Paul
DiMaggio. (Cambridge, 1990)
Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin, “Flexible
Specialization: Theory and Evidence in the Analysis of Industrial Change,” in Contemporary
Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions, pp. 220-239. Edited by J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert
Boyer (Cambridge, 1997)
Week 5 Transaction Cost Economics, Principal-Agent Problems, Social Capital, and Market Inefficiencies
Readings:
1) *Oliver E. Williamson, “Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 77-107
2) *James Coleman, “A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 166-180.
3) ***George A. Akerlof, “The Market for ‘Lemons:’ Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism,” in An Economic Theorist’s Book of Tales, pp. 7-22
Some other materials on insights from economics:
Oliver
E. Williamson, “The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach,” American
Journal of Sociology 87:548-577.
Oliver
E. Williamson, Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications
(Free Press, 1975)
Avner
Greif, “Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and
Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies.” Unpublished ms.
David
M. Kreps, “Corporate Culture and Economic Theory,” in Perspectives in
Positive Political Economy, pp. 90-143.
Edited by James Alt and Kenneth Shepsle. (Cambridge, 1990)
Armen
A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz, “Production, Information Cost, and Economic
Organization,” American Economic Review (1972):777-795
Terry
Moe, “The New Economics of Organization,” American Journal of Political
Science 28,4 (1984):739-777.
Charles
Perrow, “Economic Theories of Organization,” Theory and Society
15:11-45.
Ronald Coase, “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica
4:386-405
Anthony
Oberschall and Eric M. Leifer, “Efficiency and Social Institutions: Uses and
Misuses of Economic Reasoning in Sociology,” Annual Review of Sociology
12:233-253.
Robin
Dawes and R. Thaler, “Anomalies: Cooperation,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 2:187-197.
Gary
Becker, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior (Chicago, 1976)
Amartya Sen, “Rational Fools: A Critique of the
Behavioral Assumptions of Economic Theory,” Philosophy and Public Affairs
4:318-344.
Mark
Lazerson, “Organizational Growth of Small Firms: An Outcome of Markets and
Hierarchies?” American Sociological
Review 53:330-342.
James
Coleman, “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital,” American Journal
of Sociology 94 (Supplement):S95-S120.
James
Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory (Belknap, 1990) esp. pp. 241-299.
Pierre
Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital.” In Handbook
of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. Edited by John G. Richardson.
Robert
Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.” Journal of Democracy 6,1:65-78.
Shin-Kap
Han and Ronald L. Breiger, “Dimensions of Corporate Social Capital: Toward
Models and Measures,” Working Paper 97-2, Working Papers in Networks and
Interpretation, Cornell University Dept of Sociology, July 1997
Jozsef
Borocz and Caleb Southworth, “Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power:
Conversion of Cultural Capital to Income, Hungary, 1986,” Social Forces 74,3(March 1996):797-821.
Week 6 The New Institutionalism in Economic Sociology
Part 1: Institutions
Readings:
1) *Geoffrey M. Hodgson, “The Return of Institutional Economics,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 58-76
2) *Charles F. Sabel, “Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 137-165
Part 2: Business History: Emergence, Transformation, and Environment of the Firm
Readings:
3) *Neil Fligstein, The Transformation of Corporate Control, chs. 1, 4, 6, 7
Some other materials on the New Institutionalism:
Paul
David, “Understanding the Economics of QWERTY: The Necessity of History,” in W.
N. Parker, Economic History and the Modern Economist (Basil Blackwell, 1986)
Patrick
McGuire, Mark Granovetter, and Michael Schwartz, “Thomas Edison and the Social
Construction of the Early Electricity Industry in America,” in Explorations
in Economic Sociology, pp. 213-248.
Edited by Richard Swedberg (Russell Sage Foundation, 1993)
Walter
W. Powell and Paul J. Dimaggio, The New Institutionalism in Organizational
Analysis (Chicago, 1991)
Richard
Swedberg, “Markets as Social Structures,” in The Handbook of Economic
Sociology, pp. 255-282.
Douglass C. North, Structure and Change in
Economic History (Norton, 1973)
Douglass
C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge,
1990)
Max
Weber, Essays in Economic Sociology, edited by Richard Swedberg
(Princeton, 1999)
Max
Weber, General Economic History (New York: Collier, 1961)
Randall
Collins, “Weber’s Last Theory of Capitalism,” in The Sociology of Economic
Life, pp. 85-110. Edited by Mark
Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (Westview, 1992) OR: American Sociological
Review 45 (1980):925-942.
Oliver
Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (Free Press, 1985)
John R. Commons, Institutional Economics: Its
Place in Political Economy (Transaction, 1934)
Some other materials on political economy, governance structures, industrial districts and regional development:
Leon
Lindberg, John Campbell, and Rogers Hollingsworth, “Economic Governance and the
Analysis of Structural Change in the American Economy,” in Governance of the
American Economy, (1991), pp. 3-34
John
Campbell and Leon Lindberg, “Property Rights and the Organization of Economic
Activity by the State,” American Sociological Review 55,5:634-647.
Frank
Dobbin and Timothy J. Dowd, “How Policy Shapes Competition: Early Railroad
Foundings in Massachusetts,” Administrative Science Quarterly 42
(1997):501-529.
Frank
Dobbin, Forging Industrial Policy:
The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (Cambridge, 1994)
Bruce
G. Carruthers, City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English
Financial Revolution (Princeton, 1996)
Frank
Dobbin, “The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy
During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France,” Theory and
Society 22:1-56.
Frank
Dobbin, John R. Sutton, John W. Meyer, and W. Richard Scott, “Equal Opportunity
Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets,” American Journal of
Sociology 99 (1993):396-427.
Fred
Block, “The Roles of the State in the Economy,” in The Handbook of Economic
Sociology, pp. 691-710.
Gosta
Esping-Andersen, “Welfare States and the Economy,” in The Handbook of
Economic Sociology, pp. 711-732.
Gosta
Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton, 1990)
Peter
B. Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Tranformation. (Princeton, 1995)
Dietrich
Rueschmeyer, Evelyn Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens, Capitalist
Development and Democracy. (Chicago,
1992)
John
Urry and S. Lash, The End of Organized Capitalism. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987)
J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, editors, Contemporary
Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions (Cambridge, 1997) especially
ch. 1
Frank
P. Romo and Michael Schwartz, “The Structural Embeddedness of Business
Decisions: The Migration of Manufacturing Plants in New York State, 1960 to
1985.” American Sociological Review 60:874-907
Gregory
Hooks, “Regional Processes in the Hegemonic Nation: Political, Economic and
Military Influences on the Use of Geographic Space.” American Sociological Review 59:746-772.
F.
Pyke, G. Beccattini, and W. Sengenberger, editors, Industrial Districts and
Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy (Geneva:
International Institute for Labor Studies, 1990)
J.
R. Bowman, Capitalist Collective Action: Competitions, Cooperation and
Conflict in the Coal Industry. (Cambridge,
1989)
Wolfgang
Streeck and Philippe C. Schmitter, Private Interest Government: Beyond
Market and State (London: Sage, 1985)
J.
Rogers Hollingsworth, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Wolfgang Streeck, eds., Comparing
Capitalist Economies: Variations in the Governance of Sectors (1994)
Ward
Winslow, editor, The Making of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Valley
Historical Association, 1995)
Some other materials on labor markets, internal or otherwise:
Mark
Granovetter, “The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market
Analysis: A Social Structural View,” in Industries, Firms, and Jobs:
Sociological and Economic Approaches, pp.187-216(?). Edited by Paula England and G. Farkas. (New York: Plenum Press, 19??)
Chris
Tilly and Charles Tilly, “Capitalist Work and Labor Markets,” in Handbook of
Economic Sociology, pp. 282-312.
James
N. Baron and Willliam T. Bielby, “Bringing the Firm Back In: Stratification and
the Organization of Work,” American Sociological Review 45:737-765.
Aage
B. Sorensen, “Firms, Wages, and Incentives,” in The Handbook of Economic
Sociology, pp. 504-520.
David
Stark, “Rethinking Internal Labor Markets: New Insights from a Comparative
Perspective,” American Sociological Review 51 (1986):492-504.
Some other materials on American business history:
Alfred
Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
(Harvard, 1977)
Alfred
Chandler, Strategy and Structure (MIT, 1962, 1990) especially intro and
ch. 3
Oliver
E. Williamson and William G. Ouchi, “The Markets and Hierarchies and Visible
Hand Perspectives,” in Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior,
pp. 347-370. Edited by A. H. van Ven
and W. F. Joyce (Wiley, 1981)
Robert
G. Eccles and Harrison C. White, "Firm and Market Interfaces of Profit
Center Control," in Siegwart Lindenberg et al. (eds.), Approaches to
Social Theory, pp. 203-227 (Russell
Sage, 1986)
Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks: the Constitution of
American Industrial Order, 1865-1917 (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
William
G. Roy, Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in
America (Princeton, 1997)
Week 7 Networks, Embeddedness, and Power Dynamics in Economic Organizations
Readings:
1) **Joel M. Podolny, “A Status-Based Model of Market Competition,” American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993):829-872.
2) *Walter W. Powell and Laurel Smith-Doerr, “Networks and Economic Life,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 368-402
3) **Brian Uzzi, “The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect,” American Sociological Review 61,4 (1996):674-698.
4) **Roberto M. Fernandez, Emilio J. Castilla, and Paul Moore, “Social Capital At Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center.” American Journal of Sociology 105,5(2000):1288-1356.
Some other materials on networks of power:
Karen
S. Cook, “Exchange and Power in Networks of Interorganizational Relations,” The
Sociological Quarterly 18 (1977):62-82
Jeffrey
Pfeffer and Gerald Salancik, The External Control of Organizations: A
Resource Dependence Perspective (Harper and Row, 1978)
Ronald
S. Burt, Kenneth P. Christman, and Harold C. Kilburn, Jr. 1980.
“Testing a Structural Theory of Corporate Cooptation:
Interorganizational Directorate Ties as a Strategy for Avoiding Market
Constraints on Profits,” American Sociological Review 45:821-841.
Ronald
S. Burt, Towards a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social
Structure (Academic Press, 1982)
Ronald
S. Burt and Debbie Carlton, “Another Look at the Network Boundaries of American
Markets,” American Journal of Sociology 95,3:723-753.
Beth
Mintz and Michael Schwartz, The Power Structure of American Business (Chicago,
1985)
Ronald
S. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Harvard,
1992)
Mark
S. Mizruchi and Linda Brewster Stearns, “Money, Banking, and Financial
Markets,” in Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 313-341.
Mark
Mizruchi, The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations
and Their Consequences (Harvard, 1992)
Gerald
F. Davis and Henrich R. Greve, “Corporate Elite Networks and Governance Changes
in the 1980s,” American Journal of Sociology 103 (1997):1-37.
Some other materials on networks per se:
Mark
Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology
78,6(1973):1360-1380.
W.
W. Powell, “Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization,” in Research
in Organizational Behavior, volume 12, pp. 295-336. Edited by L. L. Cummings and B. Shaw. (JAI, 1990) Mark Granovetter, Getting a
Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers, 2nd edition (Chicago,
1995)
Mark
Granovetter, “Economic Action and Social Structure: the Problem of
Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 91 (1985):481-510.
Mark
Granovetter, “Business Groups,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology,
pp. 453-475.
Roberto
M. Fernandez and Nancy Weinberg, “Sifting and Sorting: Personal Contacts and
Hiring in a Retail Bank,” American Sociological Review
62,6(1997):883-902.
Yanjie
Bian, “Bringing Strong Ties Back In: Indirect Ties, Network Bridges, and Job
Searches in China,” American Sociological Review 62,3(1997):366-385.
Joel
M. Podolny and James N. Baron, “Resources and Relationships: Social Networks
and Mobility in the Workplace,” American Sociological Review
62,5(1997):673-693.
Carruthers
and Babb, Economy/Society, ch. 3
Robert
R. Faulkner, Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film
Industry (Transaction, 1982)
William
T. Bielby and Denise D. Bielby, “Organizational Mediation of Project-Based
Labor Markets: Talent Agencies and the Careers of Screenwriters,” American
Sociological Review 64,1 (1999):64-85.
Wayne
Baker, “The Structure of a National Securities Market,” American Journal of
Sociology 89 (1984):775-811.
Wayne
E. Baker, “Market Networks and Corporate Behavior,” American Journal of
Sociology 96 (1990):589-625.
Wayne
E. Baker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Gene A. Fisher, “Hazards of the Market: The
Continuity and Dissolution of Interorganizational Market Relationships,” American
Sociological Review 63,2:147-177
Paul
Dimaggio and Hugh Louch, “Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What
Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?” American Sociological
Review 63,5 (1998):619-637.
Robert
G. Eccles and Dwight B. Crane, Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work
(Harvard, 1988)
Gordon
B. Baty, William M. Evans and Terry W. Rothermel, “Personnel Flows as
Interorganizational Relations,” Administrative Science Quarterly 16
(1971):430-443.
J.
Miller McPherson, “An Ecology of Affiliation,” American Sociological Review
48 (1983):519-535.
J.
Miller McPherson, Pamela Popielarz, and Sonja Drobnic, “Social Networks and
Organizational Dynamics,” American Sociological Review 57
(1992):153-170.
Mark
Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz, editors, Intercorporate Relations: The
Structural Analysis of Business. (Cambridge,
1987)
Nitin
Nohria and Robert G. Eccles, Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form,
and Action. (Harvard, 1992)
W.
W. Powell, K. W. Koput, and L. Smith-Doerr, “Interorganizational Collaboration
and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology,” Administrative
Science Quarterly 41: 116-145.
Judith Blau, Social Contracts and Economic
Markets (New York: Plenum Press,
1993)
Gerald
F. Davis, Kristina A. Diekmann, and Catherine H. Tinsley, “The Decline and Fall
of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an
Organizational Form,” American Sociological Review 59 (1994): 547-570.
Charles
Kadushin, “Friendship Among the French Financial Elite, American
Sociological Review 60:202-221.
Charles
F. Sabel, “Studied Trust: Building New Forms of Cooperation in a Volatile
Economy,” Human Relations
46,9:1133-1170.
Susan
Helper, John Paul MacDuffie, and Charles Sabel, “Pragmatic Collaborations:
Advancing Knowledge While Controlling Opportunism.” Unpublished ms.
Stewart
Macaulay, “Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study,” American
Sociological Review 28(1963):55-67.
Brian
Uzzi, “Embeddedness and its Paradoxes,” unpublished ms.
Alison
Davis-Blake and Brian Uzzi, “Determinants of Employment Externalization: A
Study of Temporary Workers and Independent Contractors,” Administrative Science Quarterly
38:195-223.
James
R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach, “Keiretsu Networks and Corporate Performance
in Japan,” American Sociological Review 61:67-88.
Harrison
C. White, “Where Do Markets Come From?”
American Journal of Sociology 87(1981):517-547.
Ranjay
Gulati and Martin Gargiulo, “Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come
From? American Journal of Sociology
104,5:1439-141493.
Week 8 Population Ecology and Emergent Organization Models
Readings:
1) **Joel M. Podolny, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael T. Hannan, “Networks, Knowledge, and Niches: Competition in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984-1991,” American Journal of Sociology 102 (1996):659-689.
2) **Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Elizabeth A. Dundon and John Charles Torres, “Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context,” American Sociological Review 60 (1995):509-528. (plus follow-up Comment and Reply, pp. 529-544)
3) ***W. Brian Arthur, “Positive Feedbacks in the Economy,” Scientific American February 1990:92-99. OR: In Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy, pp. 1-12
4) **Neil Fligstein, “Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions,” American Sociological Review 61,4 (1996):656-673.
Some other materials on population ecology:
Michael
T. Hannan and John Freeman, Organizational Ecology (Harvard, 1989) (esp. chs. 1-6)
Joel
A. C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh, “Organizational Niches and the Dynamics of
Organizational Mortality,” American Journal of Sociology 100,2
(1994):346-380.
Nitin
Nohria and Ranjay Gulati, “Firms and Their Environments,” in The Handbook of
Economic Sociology, pp. 529-555.
Richard
Nelson and Sidney Winter An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (Harvard,
1982)
Glenn
R. Carroll, “Concentration and Specialization: Dynamics of Niche Width in
Populations of Organizations,” American Journal of Sociology 90
(1985):1262-1283.
Paul
D. Lopes, “Innovation and Diversity in the Popular Music Industry, 1969-1990,” American
Sociological Review 57 (1992):56-71.
Joel
A. C. Baum and Christine Oliver, “Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics
of Organizational Populations,” American Sociological Review 57
(1992):540-560.
Michael
T. Hannan, G. R. Carroll, S. Dobrev, and J. Han, “Organizational Mortality in
European and American Automobile Industries, Part 1: Revisiting the Effects of
Age and Size,” European Sociological Review 14 (1998): 279-302.
James
Ranger-Moore, “Bigger May Be Better, But Is Older Wiser? Organizational Age and
Size in the New York Life Insurance Industry,” American Sociological Review
62,6 (1997):903-921.
Jesper
B. Sorensen and Toby E. Stuart, “Aging, Obsolescence, and
Organizational Innovation,” Administrative Science Quarterly 45,1 (March 2000):81-112.
Week 9 Gender and Economy
Readings:
1) *Ruth Milkman and Eleanor Townsley, “Gender and the Economy,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 600-619.
2) **Leslie McCall, “Gender and the New Inequality: Explaining the College/Non-College Wage Gap,” American Sociological Review 65,2 (2000):234-255
Some other readings on gender and economy:
Mary
Blair-Loy, “Career Patterns of Executive Women in Finance: An Optimal Matching
Analysis.” American Journal of
Sociology 104,5:1346-1397
Marianne
A. Ferber and Julie Nelson, editors, Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory
and Economics. (Chicago, 1993)
Julie
A. Nelson, Feminism, Objectivity and Economics (Economics as Social Theory)
(Routledge, 1996)
Lourdes
Beneria and Shelly Feldman, editors, Unequal Burden, Economic Crises,
Persistent Poverty, and Women’s Work (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
Erik
Olin Wright, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis, chs.
9, 11, 12
Tak
Wing Chan, “Revolving Doors Reexamined: Occupational Sex Segregation over the
Life Course,” American Sociological Review 64,1 (1999):86-96.
Dorinne
Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a
Japanese Workplace (Chicago, 1990)
Lisa
E. Cohen, Joseph P. Broschak, and Heather A. Haveman, “And Then There Were
More? The Effect of Organizational Sex Composition on the Hiring and Promotion
of Managers,” American Sociological Review 63,5 (1998):711-727.
Fiona
M. Kay and John Hagan, “Raising the Bar: The Gender Stratification of Law-Firm
Capital,” American Sociological Review 63,5 (1998):728-743.
David
A. Cotter et al., “All Women Benefit: The Macro-Level Effect of Occupational
Integration on Gender Earnings Equality,” American Sociological Review
62,5(1997):714-734.
Margaret
Mooney Marini and Pi-Ling Fan, “The Gender Gap in Earnings at Career Entry,” American
Sociological Review 62,4(1997):588-604.
Francine
D. Blau, Marianne A. Ferber and Anne E. Winkler, The Economics of Women, Men
and Work (Prentice Hall, 1997)
Kathryn
Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare
and Low-Wage Work (Russell Sage Foundation, 1997)
Week 10 Culture and Economy
Readings:
1) *Paul DiMaggio, “Culture and Economy,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 27-57
2) *Viviana Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money, chs. 1, 3, and 7
Some other materials on cultural factors and the economy:
Richard
Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in
the New Capitalism (Norton, 1998)
Robert
Wuthnow, “Religion and Economic Life,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology,
pp. 620-646
Nicole
Woolsey Biggart, Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in
America (Chicago 1989)
Nicole
Woolsey Biggart, “Labor and Leisure,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology,
pp. 672-690.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism. (London: Unwin, 1930)
Reinhard
Bendix, Work and Authority in Industry: Ideologies of Management in the
Course of Industrialization ( John Wiley, 1956; California, 1974 (reprint))
Arlie
Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
(California, 1983)
Deirdre
Boden, The Business of Talk: Organizations in Action (Polity Press,
1994)
Carruthers
and Babb, Economy/Society, chapter 2
Amitai Etzioni, The Moral Dimension: Toward a New
Economics. (Free Press, 1987), esp.
chs. 5 and 14.
Paul
J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell, “The Iron Cage Revisited: Insitutitonal
Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields,” American
Sociological Review 48:147-160.
Tal
Simons and Paul Ingram, “Organization and Ideology: Kibbutzim and Hired Labor,
1951-1965. Administrative Science
Quarterly 42 (1997):784-813.
James
C. Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in
Southeast Asia (Yale, 1976)
Joseph Galaskiewicz and Ronald S. Burt,
“Interorganization Contagion in Corporate Philanthropy,” Administrative
Science Quarterly 26 (1991):88-106.
Thorstein
Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (Macmillan, 1899; Prometheus, 1998)
Marshall
Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago, 1976) especially pp. 126-179
Gary
Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart, “Market, Culture, and Authority: A
Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East, in The
Sociology of Economic Life, pp. 181-223.
Edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (Boulder: Westview, 1992)
Clifford
Geertz, “The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing,” in The
Sociology of Economic Life, pp. 225-232.
Randall
Collins, “An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of
Self-Transforming Growth in Japan,” American Sociological Review
62,6(1997):843-865
Mary
Douglas, Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory (New York: Routledge,
1992)
Mike
Featherstone, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (London: Sage, 1991)
Thomas
Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and
Spectacle, 1851-1914 (London: Verso Books, 1991)
Rob
Shields, editor, Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption (London: Routledge, 1992)
Jean
Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign. (St.
Louis: Telos, 1981)
John
Urry, The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. (London: Sage, 1990)
Jozsef
Borocz, Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism (Pergamon,
1996)
Week 11 Global Capitalism, Commodity Chains, and World Systems Theory
Readings:
1) *Gary Gereffi, “The International Economy and Economic Development,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 206-233
2) **Dennis O’Hearn, “Innovation and the World-System Hierarchy: British Subjugation of the Irish Cotton Industry, 1780-1830,” American Journal of Sociology 100,3(1994): 587-621
3) ***Miguel Korzeniewicz, “Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry,” in Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, pp. 247-265
Some other materials on world systems theory and development:
Gary
Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, editors, Commodity Chains and Global
Capitalism (Greenwood, 1994)
Gary
Gereffi and Gary G. Hamilton, “Commodity Chains and Embedded Networks: The
Economic Organization of Global Capitalism.”
Paper presented at ASA meetings, 1996.
Alexander
Gerschenkron, “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective,” in The
Sociology of Economic Life, ed. M. Granovetter and R. Swedberg (1992)
(among other places)
Immanuel
Wallerstein, The Modern World System, I-III. (Academic, 1974-1989), esp. I, ch.5; II, chs.4,5
Carruthers
and Babb, Economy/Society, chs. 6,7
Arjun
Appadurai, Modernity at Large (Minnesota, 1996)
Week 12 Transitions to Capitalism, and Out of Socialism
Readings:
1) Doug Guthrie, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China (Princeton, 1999), chs. 1, 2, 6, and 8
2) ***David Stark, “Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism,” American Journal of Sociology 101:993-1027
Some other materials on various transitions:
i) Early Modern Europe
Richard
Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic
Transitions in Early Modern Europe.
(Oxford, 2000)
Adam
Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book III
Gary
Hamilton, “Civilizations and the Organization of Economies,” in The Handbook
of Economic Sociology, pp. 183-205.
A.
Field, “The Problem with Neoclassical Economics: A Critique with Special
Reference to the North/Thomas Model of Pre-1500 Europe,” Explorations in Economic
History 18:174-198.
Paul
D. McLean and John F. Padgett, “Was Florence a Perfectly Competitive Market?
Transactional Evidence from the Renaissance,” Theory and Society 26
(1997):209-244.
ii) East Asia
Victor
Nee, “A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State
Socialism,” American Sociological
Review 54 (1989):663-681.
Victor
Nee, “Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Forms, Property
Rights, and Mixed Economy in China,” Administrative Science Quarterly 37
(1992):1-27
Anthony
Oberschall, “The Great Transition: China, Hungary, and Sociology Exit Socialism
into the Market,” American Journal of Sociology 101,4 (1996):1028-1041
(plus other articles in AJS 101,4)
Yang
Cao and Victor G. Nee, “Comment: Controversies and Evidence in the Market
Transition Debate.” American Journal
of Sociology 105,4:1175-1189
“Reply:
Beyond the Debate and Toward Substantive Institutional Analysis.” American
Journal of Sociology 105,4:1190-1195.
Ronald
Dore, “Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism,” in The Sociology of
Economic Life, pp. 159-180. OR: British
Journal of Sociology 34:459-482. OR:
in Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic
Issues (Stanford, 1987)
Ronald
Dore, Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in
the Japanese Economy. (London:
Athlone Press, 1986)
Marco
Orru, Nicole Woolsey Biggart, and Gary G. Hamilton, The Economic
Organization of East Asian Capitalism (Sage, 1997)
Lisa
Keister, “Engineering Growth: Business Growth Structure and Firm Performance in
China’s Transition Economy,” American Journal of Sociology
104,2:404-440.
Yanjie
Bian and John Logan, “Market Transition and the Persistence of Power: The
Changing Stratification System in Urban China,” American Sociological Review
61 (1996):739-758.
Xueguang
Zhou, Nancy Brandon Tuma and Phyllis Moen, “Institutional Change and Job-Shift
Patters in Urban China, 1949 to 1994,” American Sociological Review
62,3(1997):339-365.
iii) Eastern Europe
David
Stark and Laszlo Bruszt, Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and
Property in Eastern Europe (Cambridge, 1998)
Theodore
Gerber and Michael Hout, “More Shock than Therapy: Market Transition,
Employment, and Income in Russia, 1991-1995,” American Journal of Sociology
104,1 (1998):1-50.
Ivan
Szelenyi, Katherine Beckett, and Lawrence p. King, “The Socialist Economic
System,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp. 234-251.
Jozsef
Borocz, “Dual Dependency and Property Vacuum: Social Change on the State
Socialist Semiperiphery,” Theory and Society 21:77-104.
Jozsef
Borocz and Akos Rona-Tas, “Small Leap Forward: Emergence of New Economic
Elites,” Theory and Society 25:751-781.
Jozsef
Borocz and Caleb Southworth, “`Who You Know . . .’: Earnings Effects of Formal
and Informal Social Network Resources under Late State Socialism, Hungary,
1986-87” Journal of Socio-Economics
27,3(1998):403-27.
Akos
Rona-Tas, “The First Shall Be Last?
Entrepreneurship and Communist Cadres in the Transition from Socialism,”
American Journal of Sociology, 100,1 (1994):40-69.
David
Stark, “Bending the Bars of the Iron Cage: Bureaucratization and
Informalization in Capitalism and Socialism,” Sociological Forum
4,4:637-664.
Week 13 Informal Economies, Black Market Economies
Readings:
1) *Alejandro
Portes, “The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes,” in The Handbook of
Economic Sociology, pp. 426-449
2) ***Mitchell
Duneier, Sidewalk (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), chs.
1-3
3) *Ivan Light and Stavros Karageorgis, “The
Ethnic Economy,” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, pp.
647-671.
Some other materials on informal economies and immigrant economies:
Ivan
Light and Steven J. Gold, Ethnic
Economies (San Diego: Academic Press, 2000)
Ivan
Light, Race,
Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995)
Ivan Light and Parminder Bhachu, editors, Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Culture,
Capital, and Ethnic Networks (Transaction,
1993)
Ivan
Light and Edna Bonacich, Immigrant
Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 (California, 1988)
David
L. Torres, “Dynamics Behind the Formation of a Business Class: Tucson’s
Hispanic Business Elite,” Hispanic
Journal of Behavioral Sciences 12,1:25-49.
Alejandro
Portes and Saskia Sassen-Koob, “Making It Underground: Comparative Material on
the Informal Sector in Western Market Economies,” American Journal of Sociology 93,1 (1987):30-61.
Roger Waldinger, Still
the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New
York (Harvard, 1999)
Roger
Waldinger and M. Lapp, “Back to the Sweatshop or Ahead to the Informal Sector,”
International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research 17,1:6-29 (1993)
Roger Waldinger, Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York’s Garment Trade (New York University Press, 1986)
Saskia
Sassen, “The Informal Economy,” in Dual
City: Restructuring New York, edited by John Mollenkopf and Manuel
Castells, pp. 79-10 (Russell Sage Foundation, 1991)
Saskia
Sassen, “The Informal Economy: Between New Developments and Old Regulations,”
in Globalization and Its Discontents
(New York: The New Press, 1998)
Robert
E. Parker, Flesh Peddlers and Warm
Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Its Workers (Rutgers, 1994)
Victor
Nee, Jimy M. Sanders, Scott Sernau,
“Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and the Mixed
Economy,” American Sociological
Review 59,6 (1994):849-872.
Week 14
Readings:
1) Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City, chs. 1, 3, 6, 8
Some other materials on this potpourri:
Richard
P. Taub, Community Capitalism: The South Shore Bank’s Strategy for
Neighborhood Revitalization. (Harvard
Business School, 1994)
Kathryn
Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and
Low-Wage Work (Russell Sage Foundation, 1997)
Jill
S. Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
(Oxford, 1994)
Melvin
L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New
Perspective on Racial Inequality (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Mike
Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History
of the U.S. Working Class (London: Verso, 1986, 1999)