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Classical Theory

Collins, Randall. 1980. "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systemization." American Sociological Review 45:925-942.

Durkheim, Emile. 1984[1893]. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1990 [1890-1900]. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals. NY: Routlege.

Marx, Karl. 1971. The Grundrisse. New York: Harper Torchbooks.

Marx, Karl. 1964[1844]. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, ed. By Dirk Struyk. International Publishers.

Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.

Polanyi, Karl. 1992. "The Economy as Instituted Process." Pp. 29-52 in The Sociology of Economic Life, edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Simmel, Georg. 1978[1907]. The Philosophy of Money. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Weber, Max. 1946. "Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions." Pp. 323-359 in Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds. From Max Weber. N.Y.: Oxford University Press.

General Overview of Contemporary Economic Sociology

Barber, Bernard. 1995. "All Economies are "Embedded": The Career of a Concept, and Beyond." Social Research 62:387-413.

Becker, Gary. 1996. "The Economic Way of Looking at Life." Pp. Chapter 7 in Accounting for Tastes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Coleman, James S. 1994. "A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology." Pp. 166-180 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." American Journal of Sociology 91:485-510.

Hirsch, Paul, Stuart Michaels, and Ray Friedman. 1990. "Clean Models vs. Dirty Hands: Why Economics is Different from Sociology." Pp. 39-56 in Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy, edited by Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hirschman, Albert. 1986. Rival Views of Market Society. New York: Viking. Pp. 105-141.

Kahneman, Daniel. 1994. "New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 150:18-36.

Milkman, Ruth and Eleanor Townsley. 1994. "Gender and the Economy." Pp.600-619 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press

Piore, Michael J. 1996. "Review of the Handbook of Economic Sociology." Journal of Economic Literature 34:741-754.

Portes, Alejandro. 1995. "Economic Sociology and the Sociology of Immigration: A Conceptual Overview." Pp. 1-41 in The Economic Sociology of Immigration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Sen, Amartya. 1977. "Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory." Philosophy and Public Affairs 6:317-344.

Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg. 1994. "The Sociological Perspective on the Economy." Pp. 3-26 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press.

Swedberg, Richard. 1990. Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Interview with Albert Hirschman.

Swedberg, Richard. 1997. " New Economic Sociology: What Has Been Accomplished, What is Ahead?" Acta Sociologica 40:161-182.

Zukin, Sharon and Paul DiMaggio. 1990. Introduction. In Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio, Eds, Structures of Capital. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Economy and Culture

Biggart, Nicole Woolsey. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

DiMaggio, Paul. 1994. "Culture and Economy." Pp. 27-57 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press.

Dobbin, Frank. 1993. "Cultural Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain and France." Theory and Society 22: 1-56.

Helleiner, Eric. 1998. "National Currencies and National Identities." American Behavioral Scientist 41:1409-1436.

Morrill, Calvin. 1991. "Conflict Management, Honor and Organizational Change." American Journal of Sociology 97: 585-621.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Introduction and Chapter 2.

Singh, Supriya. 1999. Electronic Money: Understanding Its Use to Increase the Effectiveness of Policy. Telecommunications Policy. 23:10/11

Smith, Charles. 1993. "Auctions: From Walras to the Real World." Pp. 176-192 in Explorations in Economic Sociology, edited by Richard Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Zelizer, Viviana. 1985. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books. Selections.

Zelizer, Viviana. 1989. "The Social Meaning of Money." American Journal of Sociology 95: 342-377.

Zelizer, Viviana. 1996. "Payments and Social Ties." Sociological Forum 11:481-495.

Social Networks and Social Capital

Abolafia, Mitchel Y. Making Markets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Introduction, pp. 1-13; chapter 1, pp. 14-37, "Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street."

Burt, Ronald. 1998. "The Gender of Social Capital." Rationality and Society 10 (1): 5-46.

Kollock, Peter. 1999. The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace. In Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (Eds.) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge

Kollock, Peter. 1999. The Production of Trust in Online Markets. In E.J.Lawler, M.Macy, S.Thyne, and H.A. Walker, Eds. Advances in Group Processes (Vol.16.). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Portes, Alejandro. 1998. "Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology." Annual Review of Sociology 24.

Portes, Alejandro and Patricia Landolt. 1996. The Downside of Social Capital. The American Prospect. 24 (May-June):18-22.

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life." The American Prospect 13:35-42.

Labor Markets

Brines, Julie. 1994. Economic Dependency, Gender, and the Division of Labor at Home. American Journal of Sociology (November): 652-688.

Edin, Kathryn and Laura Lein. 1997. Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Reskin, Barbara F. and Patricia A. Roos. 1990. Job Queues, Gender Queues. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Western, Bruce and Katherine Beckett. 2000. "How Unregulated is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution." American Journal of Sociology.

Williams, Christine L. 1995. Still A Man's World: Men Who Do Women's Work. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.

Consumption

Agnew, Jean Christophe.1993. "Coming Up For Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective." In Consumption and the World of Goods edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter. London and New York: Routledge.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chs. 1, 3, 5, Conclusion.

DiMaggio, Paul, and Hugh Louch. 1998. "Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?" American Sociological Review 63:619-637.

Frenzen, Jonathan, Paul M. Hirsch, and Philip C. Zerrillo, "Consumption, Preferences, and Changing Lifestyles," pp. 403-425 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation

Halle, David. "The Audience for Abstract Art: Class, Culture and Power" in Michele Lamont, Ed. Cultivating Differences. 1992. Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press.

Nightingale, Carl H. 1993. On the Edge. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 5.

Peiss, Kathy. 1990. "Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930." Genders 7:143-169.

Radin, Margaret J. 1996. Contested Commodities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ritzer, George. 1996. The McDonaldization of America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge. Chaps. 1, 9.

Schor, Juliet B. 1998. The Overspent American. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1-4.

Veblen, Thorstein. 1934[1899]. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: The Modern Library. Selections.

Watson, James L. 1997. Golden Arches East: McDonald's In East Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Wuthnow, Robert. 1996. Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business and Money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.