Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries : Conversations with Economists and SociologistsPrinceton University Press, 1990年2月14日 - 361 頁 The boundary between economics and sociology is presently being redefined--but how, why, and by whom? Richard Swedberg answers these questions in this thought-provoking book of conversations with well-known economists and sociologists. Among the economists interviewed are Gary Becker, Amartya Sen, Kenneth Arrow, and Albert O. Hirschman; the sociologists include Daniel Bell, Harrison White, James Coleman, and Mark Granovetter. The picture that emerges is that economists and sociologists have paid little attention to each other during most of the twentieth century: social problems have been analyzed as if they had no economic dimension and economic problems as if they had no social dimension. Today, however, there is a dialogue between the two fields, as economists take on social topics and as sociologists become interested in rational choice and "new economic sociology." The interviewees describe how they came to challenge the present separation between economics and sociology, what they think of the various proposals to integrate the fields, and how they envision the future. The author summarizes the results of the conversations in the final chapter. The individual interviews also serve as superb introductions to the work of these scholars. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 69 筆
... topic in question is classified as " so- ciological , " " economic , " or both ; or , alternatively , whether the decision is made to apply a sociological perspective , an economic perspective , or a combination of both . It is also ...
... topics that tradition- ally had interested only sociologists . Therefore , the situation in the 1970s and early 1980s was still largely the same as before . There are several reasons for the alienation between economics and sociology ...
... topics — usually re- ferred to as " economic imperialism " —continues to prevail . The fact that Becker was elected president of the American Economic Association for 1987 indicates that he no longer represents a minority perspective ...
... topics as opposed to social topics . What dis- tinguished Smith , Marx , and Mill from many later sociologists and econo- mists was their ambition to define economics in a broad manner and to be interested in the insights of the other ...
... the support of the econ- omists , decided to back off . They eventually got their own academic departments -- but at the price of staying away from economics topics . Sociology , which had been a science with the ambition 10 Introduction.
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Gary S Becker | 27 |
James S Coleman | 47 |
George A Akerlof | 61 |
Harrison C White | 78 |
Mark Granovetter | 96 |
Oliver E Williamson | 115 |
The Pioneers | 131 |
Kenneth J Arrow | 133 |
The Commentators | 213 |
Daniel Bell | 215 |
Jon Elster | 233 |
Amartya Sen | 249 |
Robert M Solow | 268 |
Arthur L Stinchcombe | 285 |
Aage R Sorensen | 303 |
Concluding Discussion | 316 |