What has been Accomplished in New Economic Sociology and Where is it Heading

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ID3198650
AuthorsRichard Swedberg (0000-0003-0635-0581, Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume45
Issue3
Pages317-330
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000397560400147x
OpenAlexW2073639194
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Since the early or mid-1980s important changes have taken place in economic sociology. New topics have been added to its agenda, and interesting advances have been made in analyzing problems that were initiated during the 1980s when "new economic sociology" was born. As to theory, it appears that the embeddedness approach is still the most popular approach - but it is also increasingly criticized and a few other theoretical alternatives exist today. The three topics of networks, markets and firms continue to be central, and some important advances have been made during the last decade. New topics include finance, law, stratification and comparative-historical studies. New economic sociology is still suspicious of mainstream economics but has good relations with the other social sciences as well as with other subfields in sociology. If there is one weakness to recent economic sociology, the article concludes, it is the lack of new ideas. Economic sociology still lives very much on the ideas from the 1980s, which is worrisome

Applied economics · Economic sociology · Economics · Embeddedness · Heading (navigation) · Historical sociology · Mainstream · Mainstream economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Salient · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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