Comments for A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace Book

Comment on Social Theory Through Science Fiction by Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:05:58 +0000

I’d recommend Octavia Butler for analyses around race and gender. Her book “Parable of the Sower” focuses on community and religion.

Comment on Embeddedness Made Easy (Polanyi Meets Indexed?) by RetroSociology Quotes of the Day: Berle, “Power Without Property” « A (Budding) Sociologist’s Commonplace Book

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:51:36 +0000

[...] “interlocked” is a nice complement to Polanyi’s argument that economy is “embedded” in society. And perhaps if the two had met, Polanyi would have been able to come up with a [...]

Comment on Economists Disprove Weber? by J.Z.

J.Z. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:20:24 +0000

As far as I’m concerned there is a wealth of work that has at least empirically contradicted Weber’s ‘protestant’ thesis of the growth of capitalism.

I think the value of the work is more in its method of interpretive sociology…

Comment on Granovetter, Meet Foxworthy by Rei

Rei — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:36:33 +0000

If you think there is nothing wrong with re-inventing the wheel, provided you quantified it.

Comment on Social Theory Through Science Fiction by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:47:51 +0000

China Mieville is a Marxist science fiction writer whose social theory suffuses his stories in interesting ways. He thinks pretty deeply about what kind of social and political institutions would exist in the worlds he creates, and I think it makes his books really fun.

Comment on Economists Disprove Weber? by zach

zach — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:21:54 +0000

Cantoni did not really bother to read Weber. Weber doesn’t make a mono-casual argument (in fact, he is writing against the orthodox base-superstructure Marxism), not to mention, the key argument is that protestantism conditions a culture which then takes off through the modern world. The spirit of capitalism is thus not uniquely protestant, but has its origins within Protestant individualism.

For a different empirical treatment in which the authors actually bothered to read Weber and tried to test his thesis:

http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/3588.html

Comment on Granovetter, Meet Foxworthy by Will Davies

Will Davies — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:51:12 +0000

If you fret about the authority of economists, but they don’t fret about the authority of you.

Comment on RetroBlogging: Berle and Means (1932) Quote on Motivations by frans bararuallo

frans bararuallo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:32:38 +0000

I like this book and the short commend above. It has a very strong impact to the social business activities nowdays and sociiology science.
I should like to say like that because I need some informations about the agency theory, especially for the early ideas of it.
See again,
frans b

Comment on Gavin Kennedy on the Myth of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand by Have you read all 700+ pages of The Wealth of Nations? Gavin Kennedy has. « SevenCell

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:27:13 +0000

[...] excellent summary (appetite wetter) of Gavin Kennedy’s recent blogging on Adam Smith can be found here. Better yet, go here, and read Mr. Kennedy’s own words in an ongoing debate. Scroll down [...]

Comment on Granovetter, Meet Foxworthy by Beth

Beth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:58:57 +0000

If you think small talk with strangers includes discussing how financial models are more like engines than cameras.