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Beyond the Embeddedness Model: The Origin, Development, and New Issues of Financial Sociology

Author:Chen Chuan,Department of Sociology, Remin University of China   

  1. 作者:陈氚 中国人民大学社会学系
  • Online:2011-09-20 Published:2011-09-20
  • Contact: Chen Chuan,Department of Sociology, Remin University of China E-mail:cht@ruc.edu.cn
  • About author:Author:Chen Chuan,Department of Sociology, Remin University of China

Abstract:

As a core field of current human society, finance is a social phenomenon in essence. Since Max Webber, classic sociology has established the legitimacy of studying economics and finance from the perspective of sociology. With the development of the new economic sociology in America, some sociologists have taken this new framework to study financial phenomena with the embeddedness model on two dimensions of social structuralism and social constructivism. 〖JP2〗To challenge this embeddedness model in the American new economic sociology, some scholars from Europe have provided us a new perspective to study financial phenomena. Thus, in the context of new technology and globalization, sociologists can study the financial field with more perspectives. 

Key words: financial sociology , financial market , embeddedness ,   disembededness