Historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft

2013

American J Econ Sociol

Today, social networks analysis has become a cross-disciplinary subject with applications in diverse fields of social and economic life. Different network designs provide different opportunities to communicate, to receive information and to create different structures of cultural capital. Network analysis explores modes and contents of exchanges between different agents when symbols, emotions or goods and services are exchanged. The message of the article is that social network analysis provides a tool to foster the understanding of social dynamics, which enhances recent debate on a micro-macro gap and on limitations of the cognitive and explanatory potential of economics.'LHWHU %|JHQKROG

Section: Society In Abstracto Versus In Concreto: An Epistemological mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics: Filling a Blind Spot with the Idea of Social Embeddedness

2013

American J Econ Sociol

“…In this respect a lot of recent offensives towards heterodox economics seems to have forgotten their own academic history. A sociology of the academic division and the related changes through the 20 th century shall argue in favor of the increased necessity to reintegrate the social sciences (Mikl‐Horke 1999). A broader history of economic and sociological thought may demonstrate that recent discussion has origins that go back for more than a century in the history of economic thought.…”

Section: Why Do Actors Do What They Do?mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and Social Sciences in the Division of Academic Work

2010

American J Econ Sociol

The term "heterodox economics" has been in existence for several decades. Recent revival of heterodox economics can be regarded as a growing criticism of economists within the own profession of economics. Modern economics is designed as a one-worldcapitalism without history and without regional specifications, without institutions, and without real human agents. Heterodox approaches have the aim to underline that different institutions matter, including religion, language, family structures and networks, systems of education, and industrial relations. Taking the discussion within a broader framework of the history of science acknowleges divergencies and convergencies between different approaches in economics that are also in permanent recomposition. The discussion comes up with the interpretation that recent academic developments provide chances for new modes of intellectual reintegration of formerly disparate areas.

“…Spätestens mit Granovetter's Arbeiten (u.a. Granovetter 1985) wurden wesentlich breiter konzeptionelle Arbeiten vorgelegt, die sich in bester Manier auf die thematischen Spuren von Parsons und Smelser's Buchtitel "Economy and Society" (1956) richteten und die sowohl Blicke zurück als auch innovativ vorwärtsgerichtet riskierten (Friedland und Robertson 1990, Etzioni und Lawrence 1991, Granovetter und Swedberg 1992, Swedberg, Smelser und Swedberg 1994, Callon 1998, Mikl-Horke 1999, Guillén et al 2002, Beckert 2002, Knorr-Cetina, Preda 2004, Dobbin 2004, Mikl-Horke 2008. '"Social embeddedness": how new economic sociology goes into the offensive and meets the own roots', The Journal of Philosophical Economics, II:1 , 76-114…”

Section: Wirtschaftssoziologie Inmitten Vieler "Universes Of Discourse"unclassified

“…Es sei das vorbestimmte Schicksal beider Disziplinen, irgendwann miteinander zu verschmelzen. Die historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft zeigt uns, dass die Grenzen zu informierten sozial-und wirtschaftshistorischen Untersuchungen und Thesen häufig fließend sind (Tilly 1981, Mikl-Horke 1999.So perspektivenreich und vielversprechend es heute anmutet, sich einer modernen Wirtschaftssoziologie zu verschreiben, die die Beschäftigung mit dem realen Wirtschaftsleben ernst nimmt und die sich auch nicht scheut, zu politikrelevanten Empfehlen vorzustoßen, so sollten wir dieses Thema selber in seinem Kontext sozialwissenschaftlicher Ideengeschichte sehen. Für Max Weber war die Sozialökonomik die umfassende Form einer '"Social embeddedness": how new economic sociology goes into the offensive and meets the own roots', The Journal of Philosophical Economics, II:1 , 76-114 Wirtschaftswissenschaft, die ökonomische Prozesse in ihrer gesellschaftlichen Eingebundenheit analysiert.…”

Section: Heterodox Economics: Opposition In Der öKonomikunclassified

"Social embeddedness": how new economic sociology goes into the offensive and meets the own roots

Journal of Philosophical Economics

2008

The argument of social embeddedness has become one of the most celebrated metaphors in economic sociology. The attempt connected to that term is the elaboration of a solid basis for economic sociology as discipline within the concert of economics and further social sciences. The paper argues that the embeddedness argument is strategically on a necessary way to highlight the academic importance of institutional and sociological thought for debating phenomena of economic life since, as it is argued within the paper, such ambitions meet also very clearly with recent tendencies within economics which are commonly considered to be tendencies towards heterodox economics. Aim of the paper is to embed such discussion within a broader history of economic and sociological thought in order to demonstrate that recent developments meet with elements of discussion which were already used by classical authors at the beginning of the 20 th century. In this respect a lot of the recent offensive of economic sociology meets with classical bases of its own academic development which seems to have become hidden or partly forgotten.