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This reading list provides some basic literature associated with key content of the Master Program of Economic Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt. It is especially designed for students, who would like to prepare themselves for joining the master program by upgrading their capabilities in accordance with the international standards of teaching and research in economic sociology. The reading list consist of selected textbooks, handbooks and encyclopaedias as well as readers that cover all the areas of the Frankfurt Master Program of Economic Sociology, namely theories and methods of economic sociology, sociology of organization and work, sociology of markets, and economic governance.
Textbooks
Recommended textbooks are:
Swedberg’s textbook is our primary recommendation. It outlines his Weberian approach to economic sociology, and in doing so it presents some key content of his co-edited Handbook of Economic Sociology, cited below, in a compressed format. The subsequently addressed textbooks are useful complements. Carruthers and Babb add further content on inequality, culture and power, Hass provides additional perspectives from organization studies as well as from the overlapping areas of political economy, and Trigilia puts an emphasis on the theoretical classics in economic sociology and their persistent relevance for the analysis of modern capitalism.
Handbooks and Encyclopaedias
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Smelser and Swedberg is currently the most relevant handbook in the field. It brings together contributions on state-of-the-art research in the diverse fields of economic sociology. Together with Swedberg’s textbook presented above, which should be consulted first, it is part of our primary recommendations. The Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology by Beckert and Zafirovski augments this content by presenting brief entries and short articles on selected keywords and issues.
Readers
All the three readers mentioned above present original texts which have exercised major analytical impact on the field of economic sociology. The primary recommendation is Biggart’s reader, which provides a well-balanced overview of classical and current texts on capitalism, markets and economic action. It is effectively augmented by Dobbin’s reader, which puts an emphasis on organizational issues, and the reader by Granovetter and Swedberg, which accentuates literature on market and firms.
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