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Introduction : The Sociology of the Economy

Dobbin, Frank - 2014

IN RECENT years, sociologists have returned to study the field's first subject, economic behavior. Beginning in the 1840s, Karl Marx tried to understand the economic underpinnings of class relations and political activity. Forty years later, Émile Durkheim explored how work was divided up in...

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Towards a unified theory of market prices : turning to pricing in practice

Bååth, Jonas - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 1, pp. 5-23

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Class, labour conflict, and workers' organisation

Chan, Jenny - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 34 (2023) 3, pp. 383-394

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Strong ties in a small world

Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...

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The role of trust in the divergent development of alternative lending channels in the UK and Germany

Wardrop, Robert Hugh - 2019

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The sociology of work : from industrial sociology to work, employment and the economy

Edwards, Paul K. - 2019

The paper reviews the progress of the sociology of work in Britain since 1945. It identifies two long …-standing influences, Marxism and Weberian analysis, and a third more recent approach shaped by post-modernism. It disputes claims … associated with the last, that the field suffers from fragmentation and lack of integration in mainstream sociology. It …

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