Brinton M., Nee V. The New Institutionalism in Sociology

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. — 352 p. — ISBN 0804742766, 9780804742764Institutions play a pivotal role in structuring economic and social transactions, and understanding the foundations of social norms, networks, and beliefs within institutions is crucial to explaining much of what occurs in modern economies. This volume integrates two increasingly visible streams of research economic sociology and new institutional economics to better understand how ties among individuals and groups facilitate economic activity alongside and against the formal rules that regulate economic processes via government and law.
Introduction
Sources of the New Institutionalism
Institutions and Social Norms
Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure
Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County
Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies
Conflict over Changing Social Norms: Bargaining, Ideology, and Enforcement
Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action
Institutional Embeddedness in Capitalist Economies
The Organization of Economies
Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets
Winner-Take-All Markets and Wage Discrimination
Institutions and the Labor Market
Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Economic Performance Through Time
Changing the Rules: Interests, Organizations, and Institutional Change in the U.S. Hospitality Industry
The Importance of the Local: Rural Institutions and Economic Change in Preindustrial England
Outline of an Institutionalist Theory of Inequality: The Case of Socialist and Postcommunist Eastern Europe