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Contract for the General Exam, January 2001 Dirk M. Zorn Contract for the General Exam, January 2001 Written exam: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 Oral exam: Thursday, January 25, 2001, 10AM (room 190) 1. List of Theory, Methods and Statistics Courses SOC 501: Classical Sociological Theory SOC 502: Contemporary Sociological Theory SOC 503: Techniques and Methods of Social Science SOC 550: Research Seminar in Empirical Investigation SOC 504: Social Statistics SOC 530x Introduction to Methods of Network Analysis (Peter Marsden) SOC 530s Historical Methodology (audited) Survival Analysis (summer class taught by Paul Allison, University of Pennsylvania, July 2000) WWS 507b/c: Quantitative Analysis (exempted due to intense statistical training as undergraduate student) 2. List of Substantive Courses SOC 510s: Selected Topics in Social Structure: Political Sociology of Advanced Societies SOC 520p: Selected Topics in Social Institutions: Economic Sociology SOC 520L: Religion and Culture Workshop (audited) SOC 530w: Sociology of Culture: An Introduction SOC 706: Reading Course, Sociology of Knowledge Organizational Theory (Heather Haveman, Columbia Graduate School of Business) 3. Language Requirement ITA 101 (grade: A+) ITA 102 (grade: A+) 4. Pre-Generals Papers Managing Multiple Roles: The Impact of Religion and Family on Organizational Commitment Principal Advisors: Frank Dobbin Paul DiMaggio Status: approved 1 “Room at the Top”? The Failed Institutionalization of Management Information Systems Principal Advisors: Frank Dobbin Paul DiMaggio Status: pending 5. Examination Areas Economic Sociology Faculty member: Viviana Zelizer Sociology of Culture Faculty member: Paul DiMaggio Sociology of Organizations Faculty member: Frank Dobbin 6. Reading Lists Enclosed 2 Reading List in Economic Sociology Classical Theory Collins, Randall. 1980. “Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systemization.” American Sociological Review 45: 925-942. Durkheim, Emile. 1984[1893]. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press. Polanyi, Karl. 1992. “The Economy as Instituted Process.” Pp. 29-52 in The Sociology of Economic Life, edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Simmel, Georg. 1978[1907]. The Philosophy of Money. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 63-206. General Overview of Contemporary Economic Sociology Becker, Gary. 1996. “The Economic Way of Looking at Life.” Chapter 7 in Accounting for Tastes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Coleman, James S. 1994. “A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology.” Pp. 166-180 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Hirsch, Paul, Stuart Michaels, and Ray Friedman. 1990. “Clean Models vs. Dirty Hands: Why Economics is Different from Sociology.” Pp. 39-56 in Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy, edited by Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hirschman, Albert. 1986. Rival Views of Market Society. New York: Viking. Kahneman, Daniel. 1994. “New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 150:18-36. Milkman, Ruth and Eleanor Townsley. 1994. “Gender and the Economy.” Pp.600-619 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press Sen, Amartya. 1977. “Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 6: 317-344. Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg. 1994. “The Sociological Perspective on the Economy.” Pp. 3-26 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press. Swedberg, Richard. 1990. Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: 3 Conversations with Economists and Sociologists. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Interview with Albert Hirschman.] Swedberg, Richard. 1997. “ New Economic Sociology: What Has Been Accomplished, What is Ahead?” Acta Sociologica 40: 161-182. Zelizer, Viviana. Fortcoming. “Sociology of Money.”In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Economy and Culture Biggart, Nicole Woolsey. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. DiMaggio, Paul. 1994. “Culture and Economy.” Pp. 27-57 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press. Dobbin, Frank. 1993. “The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain and France.” Theory and Society 22: 1-56. Dobbin, Frank. 1994. “Cultural Models of Organization: The Social Construction of Rational Organizing Principles.“ in Sociology of Culture: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Diana Crane. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Morrill, Calvin. 1991. “Conflict Management, Honor and Organizational Change.” American Journal of Sociology 97: 585-621. Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1994. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Zelizer, Viviana. 1985. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books. Zelizer, Viviana. 1989. “The Social Meaning of Money.” American Journal of Sociology 95: 342-377. Zelizer, Viviana. 1996. “Payments and Social Ties.” Sociological Forum 11:481-495. 4 Economy and Social Structure Abolafia, Mitchel Y. Making Markets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Akerlof, George A. “Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 97, 4: 543-569. Barber, Bernard. 1995. “All Economies are ‘Embedded’: The Career of a Concept, and Beyond.” Social Research 62: 387-413. Burt, Ronald. 1998. “The Gender of Social Capital.” Rationality and Society 10 (1): 5-46. Callon, Michel. 1998. “Introduction: The Embeddedness of Economic Markets in Economics” pp.1-57 in The Laws of the Market edited by Michel Callon. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology 91: 485-510. Granovetter, Mark. 1983. “The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited.” Pp. 201-233 in Randall, Collins (ed.) Sociological Theory. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass. Helgason, Agnar and Gísli Pálsson. 1997. “Contested Commodities: The Moral Landscape of Modernist Regimes.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3, 3: 451-471. Helleiner, Eric. 1998. “National Currencies and National Identities.” American Behavioral Scientist 41: 1409-1436. Radford, R.A. 1945. “The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp.” Economica 12: 189-201. Portes, Alejandro. 1998. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 24. Smith, Charles. 1993. “Auctions: From Walras to the Real World.” Pp. 176-192 in Explorations in Economic Sociology, edited by Richard Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage. Stark, David. 1990. “Work, Worth, and Justice in a Socialist Mixed Economy.” Working Papers on Central and Eastern Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, no. 5. Uzzi, Brian. 1997. “Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness.” Administrative Science Quarterly 42: 35-67. Consumption Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. DiMaggio, Paul, and Hugh Louch. 1998. “Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?” American Sociological Review 63: 619-637. 5 Frenzen, Jonathan, Hirsch, Paul M., and Philip C. Zerrillo. 1994. “Consumption, Preferences, and Changing Lifestyles.” Pp. 403-425 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Nightingale, Carl H. 1993. On the Edge. New York: Basic Books. Radin, Margaret J. 1996. Contested Commodities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Ritzer, George. 1996. The McDonaldization of America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge. Schudson, Michael. 1984. Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. New York: Basic Books Veblen, Thorstein. 1934[1899]. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: The Modern Library. Wuthnow, Robert. 1996. Poor Richard’s Principle. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Zelizer, Viviana. 1999. “Multiple Markets: Multiple Cultures" in Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society ed. by Neil Smelser and Jeffrey Alexander. Princeton: PU Press 6 Reading List in the Sociology of Culture Classics Berger P.L., Luckman T. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, pp. 28-79. Durkheim, Emile. 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life New York: Free Press. Marx, Karl. 1978. The German Ideology. In The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. by Robert Tucker. New York: Norton. Marx, Karl. 1978. Theses on Feuerbach. In The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. by Robert Tucker. New York: Norton. Weber, Max. 1992 (1930) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge. Weber, Max. 1991. (1946)“The Chinese Literati.”
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