TY - JOUR AB - In the past several years, economic sociology has grown into a new speciality within sociology. Numerous edited volumes, survey articles and handbooks herald its arrival and mark out its place in the sociological firmament (see, e.g. Granovetter and Swedberg, 1992; Swedberg, 1991; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). Although classic social theorists like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel frequently pondered the structure and conditions of industrial society and the problems its emergence generated, it was not until neoclassical economists recently began to study nonmarket social phenomena that sociologists reacted by taking up the market as an object of study. VL - 17 IS - 7/8 SN - 0144-333X DO - 10.1108/eb013315 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013315 AU - Carruthers Bruce G. PY - 1997 Y1 - 1997/01/01 TI - INTRODUCTION: ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY T2 - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 1 EP - 14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -