The New Economic Sociology: A Reader

Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight—that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles—to economic behavior. It places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-interest, and has perfect information) in context. In this way, it places a construct into a framework that more closely approximates the world in which we live. But, as an academic field, economic sociol...