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Economic Sociology
sessions at 2008 ASA meeting in Boston
Friday August, 1 (8:30am to 10:10am)
Networks and Institutions (Invited Session)
Building: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Abstract:
Networks and institutions mutually shape one another. Over time, this co-evolutionary
process creates, sustains, and transforms social worlds. The cognitive categories,
conventions, rules, expectations, and logics that give institutions their
force also condition the formation and dissolution of relationships and
thus the network structures that act as the skeletons of fields. But networks
are more than just the scaffolds and circulatory systems of organizational
fields. They are also the source of "horizontal" distinctions
among categories of individuals, organizations, and actions, as well as
"vertical" status differentials. While institutions shape structures
and condition their effects, networks generate the categories and hierarchies
that help define institutions and contribute to their efficacy.
Session Organizer: Jason Owen-Smith (University of Michigan)
Session Organizer: Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)
Opening Closure: Intercohesion and Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Business
Groups
Balazs Vedres (Central European University), David Stark (Columbia University)
Competing Logics and Elite Emergence: Microbes and Markets in Biotechnology
Jason Owen-Smith (University of Michigan), Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)
Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Embeddedness, Associationalism and
Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporate Form
Marc Schneiberg (Reed College)
Social Structural Freedom and the Emergence of The Jazz Canon: Global and
Local Networks from 1897 to 1933
Damon Jeremy Phillips (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Viviana A. Zelizer (Princeton University) |
Friday August, 1 (10:30am to 12:10pm)
Economic Sociology Council and Business Meetings
Building: Hilton Boston Back Bay |
Friday August, 1 (2:30pm to 4:10pm)
The Sociology of Credit (Paper Session)
Building: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Organizer: Akos Rona-Tas (University of California, San Diego)
Presider: Akos Rona-Tas (University of California, San Diego)
Democracy of Credit: The Social Politics of U.S. Financial Deregulation
Greta R. Krippner (University of Michigan)
Formalization of the economy. From face-to-face credit to automated consumer
credit:
Gilles Laferté (INRA)
How the Federal Reserve Thinks: Narrative Construction at a Central Bank
Mitchel Y. Abolafia (Unversity of Albany)
Securitization and the State
Sarah Quinn (University of California, Berkeley) |
Friday August, 1 (4:30pm to 6:10pm)
Law Firms as Organizations (Invited Session)
Building: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Session Organizer: Ryon Lancaster (University of Chicago)
Paper To Be Determined
Ronit Dinovitzer (University of Toronto)
Paper To Be Determined
Elizabeth Hirsh (Cornell University), Youngjoo Cha (Cornell University)
Paper to Be Determined
Elizabeth H. Gorman (University of Virginia), Julie A. Kmec (Washington
State University)
Paper to Be Determined
Mark C. Suchman (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Matthew Dimick, Ann
Swidler (University of California, Berkeley)
Paper to Be Determined
Ryon Lancaster (University of Chicago), Tae-Hyun Kim (Northwestern University),
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Robert L. Nelson (Northwestern & American Bar Foundation)
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Saturday August, 2 (8:30am to 10:10am)
Sociology and Economics in Boston (Invited Session)
Building: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Abstract:
Economic sociology thrives in Boston. The Economic Sociology Seminar has
served as a creative locus for this intellectual community since its founding
at MIT in 1997, and today it is collaboratively organized by scholars at
Harvard and MIT since 2003. While the community's "idea space"
reaches well beyond the Boston-Cambridge area, we celebrate ASA's return
to Boston this year with a panel presentation that reflects the range of
exciting economic sociology that seminar participants enjoy.
Session Organizer: Jason Beckfield (Harvard University)
Is History Always Destiny? The Contingent Legacy of Founding Environments
in the US Banking Industry
Christopher G. Marquis (Harvard Business School)
Session Organizer: Roberto M. Fernandez (Massachusetts Inst of Technology)
From Living an Ethic to Consuming It: Battle Creek and the Early Commercialization
of Natural Foods
Laura J. Miller (Brandeis University)
Sex-Typing of Jobs in Hiring: Evidence from Japan
Eunmi Mun (Harvard University)
How Contacts Matter: Social Networks and Job Search in Urban China
Elena Obukhova (MIT)
Economic Sociology and the Generation of Inequality
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
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Sunday August, 3 (10:30am to 12:10pm)
Gendering Economic Sociology: Expanding the Field's Scope and Analytical
Frameworks
(co-sponsored session with the Section on Sex and Gender)
Building: Sheraton Boston
Session Organizer: Leslie Salzinger (Boston College)
Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to
a Better Future?
Julie A. Nelson (Tufts University)
Gendering Economic Man: Integrating the Public Marketplace and the Private
Household through an Ethnography of Grocery Shopping
Shelley L. Koch (University of Kansas)
Women, Networks, and Economic Circuits
Viviana A. Zelizer (Princeton University) |
Last Updated on May 15,
2008
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