Nová ekonomická sociológia a štruktúrny kontext trhu
The New Economic Sociology and the Structural Embeddednes of the Market

Summary/Abstract: The New Economic Sociology and the Structural Embeddednes of the Market. The main aim of this article is to present contemporary theoretical developments in economic sociology, especially an explanation of the structural context of the market. Since we have realized that current developments in economic sociology have not been fully reflected in Slovak sociology, we have adapted the structure of the text to this circumstance. The first part of article presents short characteristics of two economic theories because the current movement in economic sociology is built on their critical reflection: the first is neoclassical economical theory used in the analysis of noneconomic phenomena (family, crime, education) and the second is the new institutional economy (the efficiency of institutions). The criticism of sociologists has led to their interest in objects of economic discipline (markets and firms). Their goal was a “defense” of sociology through a sociological explanation of economic phenomena, and this idea is in the centre of the new economic sociology. The second part of the article presents the two main approaches of the new economic sociology: institutional embeddedness and network embeddedness. However, each of these approaches present just one part of the structural embeddednes of the market. The main challenge for economic sociology is to integrate their different conceptualizations of embeddedness. Therefore, in the third part of article, we present the integration potential of a field approach. Sociológia 2011, Vol. 43 (No. 5: 528-549)

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