Question: What do nearly all of the best works in the field of comparative and historical
sociology have in common (other than their high quality)? Answer: the analysis of particular …

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology.
By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, the volume identifies …

This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. A farmer in County Kilkenny, Ireland,
for 15 years, Crotty began his writing career with a column for the Irish Farmers Journal. He …

Last fall, during the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association being held in
Chicago, Julia Adams and Ann Orloff convened an informal gathering of comparative …

How can historical sociologists matter? One way is to say something new about a significant
historical event or transition (the French Revolution, the origins of capitalism, the demise of …

We are grateful for the care and engagement shown by our interlocutors with what is a rather
long text and a demanding set of arguments. 1 It'sa rare opportunity to be able to sit down …

Beyond the Marketplace Page 1 The Old and the New Economic Sociology: A History and an
Agenda Mark Granovetter In this paper I first trace the ups and downs of economic sociology in …

I'd like to begin with a paradox. There is a substantial corpus of work that makes use of the
comparative method and might be equally well described as social history or historical …

Among the classical figures, Max Weber stands out from the others in his devotion to
comparative historical sociology. His lifelong quest was to find through the study of …

I came to the subject relatively late. My sixth form did not offer sociology as an A-level option
and in any case I was totally besotted with my main choices of history and economics. In …