Concept
Economic sociology
Overview
study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena
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Into the simple process of production, the division of labor was gradually interpolated. It undermined the communism of production and consumption, it made the appropriation of products by single individuals the prevailing rule, and thus introduced the exchange between individuals, in the manner mentioned above. Gradually, the production of commodities became the rule. This mode of production for exchange, not for…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
States what Economic sociology is.
Under the influence of this desire, it shows mankind accumulating wealth, and employing that wealth in the production of other wealth; sanctioning by mutual agreement the institution of property; establishing laws to prevent individuals from encroaching upon the property of others by force or fraud; adopting various contrivances for increasing the productiveness of their labor; settling the division of the produce…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Close in meaning to Economic sociology; the term itself is not named.
M. Comte's system makes no room for them. We have seen how he deals with the part of them which are the most scientific in character, the generalizations of political economy. There is one more point in the general philosophy of sociology requiring notice. Social phaenomena, like all others, present two aspects, the statical, and the dynamical; the phaenomena of equilibrium, and those of motion. The statical aspect…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Close in meaning to Economic sociology; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Georg Simmel
- Game theory
- Economy and Society
- Guy Debord
- Jürgen Habermas
- Modernity
- Sociology
- Marxism
- Max Weber
- Max Horkheimer
- Democracy in America
- William Stanley Jevons
- Walter Benjamin
- Antonio Negri
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Fredric Jameson
- Émile Durkheim
- György Lukács
- Utility
- Political economy
- Historical materialism
- Capitalism
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Karl Polanyi
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.