Description
- Most comprehensive and up-to-date overview available by an internationally renowned, award-winning economic sociologist
- Systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology
- Organizes the perspectives and methods of economic sociologists of the classical and contemporary eras, including coverage of modernization, globalization, and the welfare state
- Provides insights into the social consequences of capitalism in the past and present for students of economic sociology.
About the Author
Carlo Trigilia is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence. He is the author of Sviluppo senza autonomia. Effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno, which won the Amalfi European Prize in Sociology.
Reviews
"Carlo Trigilia's book marks a major milestone in the development of economic sociology. For the first time, we have a theoretically sophisticated and lucid account of the field's evolution from 1890 to the present. Trigilia is masterful in demonstrating the theoretical and methodological continuities from Weber, Sombart, Durkheim, Polanyi, and others to the new economic sociology of the past two decades. This is a must read not only for economic sociologists but for everyone who wants to understand the history of social theory." Fred Block, University of California at Davis "With Trigilia's book, sociology has finally returned to its original territory, after it seemed to have lost it forever to economics. With impressive erudition, the author moves from the classics to the modern debate on varieties of capitalism." Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Book Information
ISBN 9780631225362
Author Carlo Trigilia
Format Paperback
Page Count 298
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 24mm