Economic Sociology

Economic Sociology introduces the student to the main conceptions of economic sociology; illustrates the application of the concepts and theories of economic sociology; and critiques the growing literature that uses economic sociology in the explanation of macroscopic social phenomena, mostly deriving from the Marxist tradition.
The book features chapters that discusses the ecological analysis of societies; how economic objectives get translated into requirements on social relations; the basic structure of claims on the flow of benefits from economic enterprises; the reproduction of relations of production; and the general problem of creating a set of roles for new generations to occupy in such a way as to reproduce the basic structure of the economic system, and the shaping of the flow of children's socialization and placement and of adult careers so that the roles will be filled.
The text will be interesting to political scientists, economists, and historians.

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Contents
Preface

1. The Economic Sociology of Neo-Marxism
   The Sociology of the Enterprise in Marx
   Paige and Agricultural Enterprise
   Skocpol and Political Components of Modes of Production
   Immanuel Wallerstein and The World System
   Roles in the Enterprise and Social Class
   An Assessment of Neo-Marxism
   Outline
2. Ecology
   Environment and Society
   External Economies of Activities
   Access to An Environment
   Ecological Analysis of Activities
   Ecological Organization and Stratification
   Ecology of Karimojong Society
   Ecology of French Society
   Ecology of American Society
   Ecology and The Role of Nature in Economic Sociology
3. Technology and Manipulation of the Environment
   The Social Impact of Technology
   Herding Technology in Karimoja
   Eighteenth-Century France: A Grain Technology With Imperial Ambitions
   The United States: Modern Technology With School-Taught Practitioners
   Technology and Social Structure
   General Components of Technology
4. Economic Organization
   The Property System
   The Embedding of Property Rights in Administrative Systems
   The Social Structure of Labor Markets
   Division of Benefits
   Flows of Income
   Summary
   Economic Organization of the Karimojong
   The Organization of Work in the Old Regime
   The Economic Organization of American Society
   Social Relations of Production
5. Peopling the Social Structure
   Population Theory
   Social Continuity Among the Karimojong
   Agrarian Population Organization in Eighteenth-Century France
   Population and the Labor Force in American Society
   Population and Economy
6. Toward A Theory of Modes of Production
   What Social Unit Has A Mode of Production?
   Concrete Social Formations
   An Excursus On Modes of Destruction
   Economics, Individual Motivations, and Institutional Variety
   Societal Variations in Class Relations
   References
   Index