ECONOMIC-ACTION AND SOCIAL-STRUCTURE - THE PROBLEM OF EMBEDDEDNESS
ECONOMIC-ACTION AND SOCIAL-STRUCTURE - THE PROBLEM OF EMBEDDEDNESS
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DOI：
10.1086/228311
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发表时间：
1985-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
GRANOVETTER, M
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作者：
GRANOVETTER, M
行为和制度如何受到社会关系的影响是社会理论的经典问题之一。本文关注的是在现代工业社会中，经济行为在多大程度上嵌入了社会关系结构。尽管通常的新古典主义解释为这种行为提供了一种“欠社会化”或原子化的行动者解释，但试图恢复社会结构的改革派经济学家却以丹尼斯·朗批评的“过度社会化”的方式这样做。社会化不足和过度社会化的解释在忽视社会关系的持续结构方面具有矛盾的相似性，而一个复杂的经济行为解释必须考虑到它在这些结构中的嵌入性。对奥利弗威廉姆森的“市场和等级”研究计划的批评说明了这一论点。
How behavior and institutions are affected by social relations is one of the classic questions of social theory. This paper concerns the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society. Although the usual neoclasical accounts provide an "undersocialized" or atomized-actor explanation of such action, reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong. Under-and oversocialized accounts are paradoxically similar in their neglect of ongoing structures of social relations, and a sophisticated account of economic action must consider its embeddedness in such structures. The argument in illustrated by a critique of Oliver Williamson's "markets and hierarchies" research program.