Economic Sociology Reformulated |
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| Authors: | Milan Zafirovski Barry B Levine |
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| Institution: | [Milan Zafirovski holds a Ph D degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia, Skopje, and is studying for a Ph D degree in Comparative Sociology at Florida International University in Miami, Florida Barry B Levine is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Florida International University] |
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| Abstract: | A bstract Previous theoretical and empirical research on economic sociology leaves much to be desired in terms of consistently defining the agenda and objectives of the discipline As a result, economic sociology often appears to lack a clearly defined mission and purpose This is epitomized by various failures to establish adequate epistemological relations of the proper realm of economic sociology with those of economics and sociology, and especially with the domain of rational choice theory This failure is compounded by a misplaced distinction between the subject matter of economic sociology and that of sociological economics, or socioeconomics And some recent works in the discipline (including the ambitious Handbook of Economic Sociology ) have not helped to remedy this situation In this paper, we try to address this situation by suggesting some reformulations of the subject matter of economic sociology in relation to those of related disciplines In addition, we attempt to redefine the field of the sociology of the market which is seen as the focal specialty of economic sociology |
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