Article ID: CBB000773670

Economic Sociology as a Strange Other to Both Sociology and Economics (2007)

unapi

Finch, John (Author)


History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 20, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 123-140


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Sociology and Its Strange “Others””
Language: English

Economic sociologists have developed and applied theories and concepts in close connection with broadly economic phenomena, including, recently, embeddedness and actor network theory. Key to these theories is understandings of action given uncertainty in which actors develop calculative capabilities, and an emphasis on markets with boundaries and interstices as essential properties. This article reflects upon the connections between Parsons' and Smelser's economic sociology and that of contemporary authors including Granovetter, Callon and White. As a strange other to economics and to sociology, economic sociology can develop research questions in considering arbitrage generally, rather than only restricted to financial markets.

...More
Included in

Article Brewer, John D. (2007) Sociology and Its Strange “Others”: Introduction. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 1-5). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000773670/

Similar Citations

Article Godin, Benoît; (2012)
“Innovation Studies”: The Invention of a Specialty (/isis/citation/CBB001211966/)

Article Young, Cristobal; (2009)
The Emergence of Sociology from Political Economy in the United States: 1890 to 1940 (/isis/citation/CBB000932847/)

Book Backhouse, Roger E.; Fontaine, Philippe; (2010)
The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (/isis/citation/CBB001023182/)

Book Kim, Kwang-ki; (2003)
Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel (/isis/citation/CBB000301981/)

Thesis Ramp, William J.; (1991)
Durkheim and Parsons: A study in the political discourse of social theory (/isis/citation/CBB001564533/)

Thesis Lybrand, G. Steven; (1996)
The analytical realist sensibility: Talcott Parsons and The structure of social action (/isis/citation/CBB001565890/)

Book Johan Heilbron; (2015)
French Sociology (/isis/citation/CBB064499987/)

Article Mosini, Valeria; (2008)
Equilibrium in Chemistry and in Economics: An Interdisciplinary Comparison (/isis/citation/CBB001024093/)

Book Roger Backhouse; Philippe Fontaine; (2014)
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences (/isis/citation/CBB228335499/)

Article Rawls, Anne Warfield; (2013)
The Early Years, 1939--1953: Garfinkel at North Carolina, Harvard and Princeton (/isis/citation/CBB001200929/)

Article Burnham, John C.; (2014)
Why Sociologists Abandoned the Sick Role Concept (/isis/citation/CBB001214382/)

Article Tribe, Keith; (2007)
Talcott Parsons as Translator of Max Weber's Basic Sociological Categories (/isis/citation/CBB000760674/)

Article Joeri Bruyninckx; (September 2017)
Synchronicity: Time, Technicians, Instruments, and Invisible Repair (/isis/citation/CBB976044504/)

Article Bjerre, Jørn; (2013)
The Origin of the Inner Voice: Durkheim, Christianity and the Greeks (/isis/citation/CBB001200928/)

Book Abbott, Andrew; (1999)
Department and discipline: Chicago sociology at one hundred (/isis/citation/CBB000111124/)

Article Inglis, David; (2007)
The Warring Twins: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Alterity and Sameness (/isis/citation/CBB000773669/)

Authors & Contributors
Fontaine, Philippe
Backhouse, Roger E.
Bruyninckx, Joeri
Duller, Matthias
Young, Cristobal
Tribe, Keith
Concepts
Sociology
Academic disciplines
Economics
Discipline formation
Political science
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
Ancient
Places
United States
Greece
France
Europe
North Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
Princeton University
Harvard University
University of Chicago
American Sociological Association
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment