Home›Sociology›Economic SociologyGroupEconomic SociologyTheorists who study economic life, markets, exchange and formal organizations as social phenomena embedded in networks, institutions and culture rather than as purely economic mechanisms. This group gathers the classical and contemporary theorists of social exchange, economic embeddedness, social network analysis, rational choice, and institutional and organizational sociology, including the study of how organizations, professions and markets take on their durable social forms.FactsBrowse BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstablished EraWell-attested1879 1Primary DisciplineWell-attestedSociology 2Browse ByAll Economic SociologyEconomic Sociology30 entriesEconomic SociologyFilter Results30 entriesDisciplineAllEconomic Sociology (30)EraAll1857 (1)1886 (1)1910 (1)1918 (1)1920 (1)1925 (2)1926 (1)1930 (2)1932 (1)1934 (1)1935 (1)1938 (1)1940 (2)1941 (1)1942 (1)1943 (2)1944 (1)1946 (1)1949 (1)1951 (3)1953 (1)1955 (1)1965 (1)1971 (1)Nationality / CultureAllAustralia (1)Canada (1)Cuba (1)France (3)Hungary (1)Norway (2)United States (23)In GroupAllEconomic Sociology (30)Influenced ByAllGeorge C. Homans (1)Pierre Bourdieu (1)Talcott Parsons (1)Institution AffiliationAllBureaucracy (2)Colonialism (1)Columbia University (5)Education (2)Harvard University (5)Johns Hopkins University (3)Money (1)New York University (1)Stanford University (5)The Market (4)University of California, Berkeley (1)University of Chicago (4)University of Michigan (3)University of Oxford (1)University of Pennsylvania (1)Yale University (3)StudiesAllBureaucracy (2)Capitalism (2)Colonialism (1)Corporation (1)Education (4)Government (1)Insurance (1)Kinship (2)Museum (1)Social Class Stratification (2)The Family (2)The Market (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 30Alejandro PortesSociology2 linksAlvin GouldnerSociology2 linksBarry WellmanSociology2 linksCharles PerrowSociology3 linksDuncan J. WattsSociology2 linksEve ChiapelloSociology1 linkGeorge C. HomansSociology5 linksHarrison C. WhiteSociology3 linksJames S. ColemanSociology6 linksJohn W. MeyerSociology3 linksJon ElsterSociology3 linksJuliet SchorSociology3 linksKarl PolanyiSociology2 linksLuc BoltanskiSociology2 linksMark GranovetterSociology2 linksMark MizruchiSociology3 linksMichael HechterSociology3 linksNan LinSociology2 linksNeil FligsteinSociology2 linksNeil SmelserSociology4 linksPaul DiMaggioSociology4 linksPeter BlauSociology3 linksRaymond BoudonSociology3 linksRichard EmersonSociology1 linkRobert PutnamSociology3 linksRonald S. BurtSociology2 linksThorstein VeblenSociology5 linksViviana ZelizerSociology2 linksW. Richard ScottSociology2 linksWalter W. PowellSociology5 linksSources1. Wikipedia: Economic sociologytier 2WikipediaEconomic sociology, lead sectionQuote, Economic sociology, lead sectionThe specific term "economic sociology" was coined by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be used in the works of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber and Georg Simmel between 1890 and 1920.View the Source2. Wikipedia: Sociologytier 2WikipediaSociology, lead section, definition sentence, applied to theorist school classificationQuote, Sociology, lead section, definition sentence, applied to theorist school classificationSociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.