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The new second generation
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ISBN: 0871546841 0871546833 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation,


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Economic sociology
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ISBN: 0691142238 069114222X 9786612645051 1400835178 1282645056 9781400835171 9781282645059 9780691142227 9780691142234 6612645059 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of context and power in economic life, yet the field lacks a clear understanding of the role that concepts at different levels of abstraction play in its organization. Economic Sociology fills this critical gap by surveying the current state of the field while advancing a framework for further theoretical development. Alejandro Portes examines economic sociology's principal assumptions, key explanatory concepts, and selected research sites. He argues that economic activity is embedded in social and cultural relations, but also that power and the unintended consequences of rational purposive action must be factored in when seeking to explain or predict economic behavior. Drawing upon a wealth of examples, Portes identifies three strategic sites of research--the informal economy, ethnic enclaves, and transnational communities--and he eschews grand narratives in favor of mid-range theories that help us understand specific kinds of social action. The book shows how the meta-assumptions of economic sociology can be transformed, under certain conditions, into testable propositions, and puts forward a theoretical agenda aimed at moving the field out of its present impasse.


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Economic sociology : a systematic inquiry.
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ISBN: 9780691142227 9780691142234 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university


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The new second generation
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Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Center for migration studies,

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The economic sociology of immigration : essays on networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
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Year: 1995 Publisher: New York Russell Sage Foundation

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Urban Latin America
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ISBN: 9781477302842 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin

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City on the edge
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ISBN: 0520915542 0585249849 9780520915541 9780585249841 0520082176 0520089324 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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Winner, 1995 American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Award? Projecting fantasies of wealth and excess, Miami, "America's Riviera," occupies a unique place in our national imagination. Uncovering the hidden story of this dreamlike place, Portes and Stepick explore the transformations of Miami from a light-hearted tourist resort to a troubled, complex city.

Urban Latin America : the political condition from above and below.
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ISBN: 0292764278 Year: 1976 Publisher: Austin (Tex.) : University of Texas press,

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Labor, class, and the international system
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ISBN: 0125620209 Year: 1981 Publisher: New York : Academic Press,

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