Reading List of the Comprehensive Exam (The final version)
Social Organization (Labor Market)
Fall 2004
I. Economic Sociology
Block, Fred. 1994. “The Roles of the State in the Economy.” In S1, pp.691-710.
England, Paula and George Farkas. 1998. “Economic and Sociological Views of
Industries, Firms, and Jobs.” Pp. 331-346. In Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological
and Economic Approaches, edited by George Farkas and Paula England. New York, NY:
Plenum Press.
O’Riain, Sean. 2000. “States and Markets in an Era of Globalization.” Annual Review of
Sociology 26:187-213.
Portes, A. 1998 “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology” ARS,
24: 1-24.
Swedberg, Richard. 1994. “Markets as social structure.” In S, pp.255-282.
Sociology of Market
Baker, Wayne 1984 The Social Structure of a National Securities Market AJS 89 775-811
Podolny, Joel 1993 A Status Based Model of Market Competition AJS 98: 829-72
White, Harrison. 1981. “Where Do Markets Come From?” AJS 87:517-547.
Institutionalism
Stinchcombe, Arthur 1990 “Reason and Rationality.” Pp. 285-317 in The Limits of
Rationality, edited by K. Cook & M. Levi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Abbott, Andrew. 1990. “Comments: Stinchcombe’s “Reason and Rationality”.” The
Limits of Rationality, edited by K. Cook & M. Levi. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. Pp. 317-323.
Williamson, Oliver. 1994. "Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory." Pp.
77-107 in Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic
Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Zald, M. N. 1987. “Review Essay: The New Institutional Economics.” AJS 93:701-8.
Institutionalism Criticism
DiMaggio, Paul 1989 “Interest and Agent in institutional theory” pp3-22 in Institutional
Patterns and Organizations, edited by L.Zucker Cambridge University Press
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Stinchcombe, Arthur 1997 “On the Virtue of the old institutionalism ARS” 1997.
Polanyi
Block, Fred. 2000. “”Introduction” to The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi” for a
new edition published by Beacon Press, 2001.
Dalton, George 1965 “Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economics: Karl Polanyi’s
Contribution to Anthropology and Comparative Economy” in Essays in Economic
Anthropology, Dedicated to the Memory of Karl Polayni-Proceedings of the 1965 Annual
Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, June Helm editor, pp.1-24.
Polanyi, Karl, 1968[1957], “The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities:
Land, Labor, and Money,” in Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies Essays of Karl
Polanyi, George Dalton (ed.), Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 26-38.
Polanyi, Karl. 1968[1957]. “The Economy as Instituted Process.” in Primitive, Archaic,
and Modern Economies Essays of Karl Polanyi, George Dalton (ed.), Boston: Beacon
Press, pp. 139-174.
II. Organization
Rational Theories
Coleman, James, S. 1993. “The Rational Reconstruction of Society.” American
Sociological Review, 1993. Vol. 58: 1-15.
Fligstein, Neil and Robert Freeland. 1995. “Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on
Corporate Organization.” Annual Review of Sociology 21:21-43.
Scott, W. Richard. 1998. 4th Edition. Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems.
Prentice-Hall.
William, Oliver. 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. New York: Free Press.
Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-84.
Social Capital, Network Forms of Organization
Coleman, James S. 1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital." AJS
94:95-120.
Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of
Embeddedness." AJS 91(3):481-510.
Granovetter, Mark. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties." AJS 78(6):1360-1380.
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Lin, Nan. “Social Networks and Status Attainment.” Pp. 451-453 in G2.
Wellman, Barry 1983 “Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles.” Sociological Theory
pp.155-200.
Institution and Organization
Hannan M, Freeman J. 1984. “Structural Inertia and Organizational Change.” American
Sociology Review. 49:149-64.
III. Stratification, Inequality and Labor Market
General Area; Theories of Class and Status
Collins, Randall. 1971. “Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification."
ASR 36:1002-1019.
Dahrendorf in G.
Davis, Kingsley and Wilbert Moore. 1945. “Some Principles of Stratification." in G
Grusky, David. 2000. “The Past, Present and Future of Social Inequality." In G
Lenski, Gerhard. 2000. “New Light on Old Issues: The Relevance of `Really Existing
Socialist Societies' for Stratification Theory." in G
Marx in G, pp.87-105; pp. 162-177.
Sorensen “The Basic Concepts of Stratification Research: Class, Status, and Power.”
pp.287-300 in G.
Tumin, Melvin. 1953. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis." in G
Weber, Max The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp13-128, 155-183.
Wright, Eric Olin. 1984. “A General Framework for the Analysis of Class Structure."
Pp.116-120 in G.
Exploitation and Rents
Goldthorpe, John H. 2000. “Rent, Class conflict, and Class Structure: A Commentary on
Sorensen." AJS 105. no 6:1572-82.
Sorensen, Aage B. 2000. “Symposium on Class Analysis: Toward a Sounder Basis for
Class Analysis." AJS 105, no 6: 1523-58.
Wright, Erik Olin. 2000. “Class, Exploitation, and Economic Rents: Reflection on
2 “G” refers to Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective: Class, Race and Gender eds. By David B. Grusky.
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Sorensen's “Sounder Basis"." AJS 105. no 6:1559-71. 我有
Income Inequality and Organization
Allison, Paul. 1978. “Measures of Inequality." ASR 43:865-880.我有
Baker, George, Michchael Gibbs, and Bengt Holmstrom. 1994a. “The Internal
Economics of the Firm: Evidence from Personnel Data.” Quarterly Journal of Economics
109:881-919.
Cancian, Maria and Deborah Reed. 1999. “The Impact of Wives' Earnings on Income
Inequality: Issues and Estimates." Demography 36. no 2: 173-184.有
David, Card and John E. DiNardo. 2002. "Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising
Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles." Journal of Labor Economics 20:733-783.
Gottschalk, Peter. 1997. “Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts."
Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, no. 2: 21-40 in G.
Gottschalk, Peter and Timothy M. Smeeding. 1997. “Cross-National Comparisons of
Earnings and Income Inequality." Journal of Economic Literature 35 June: 633-687.
Hedstrom, Peter 1991 “Organization differentiation and earnings dispersion.” 有
Levine, David I. 1993. “What Do Wages Buy?” Administrative Science Quarterly
38:462-483.
Morris, Martina and Bruce Western. 1999. "Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the
Twentieth Century." Annual Review of Sociology 25: 623-57.
Morris, Martina and Bruce Western. “Inequality in Earnings: Trends and Implications.”
Pp.875-880 in G.
Petersen, Trond. 1989. “The Earnings Function in Sociological Studies of Earnings
Inequality.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 8:221-250 in R.
Sorensen, Aage B. 1994. “Firms, Wages, and Incentives." Pp. 504-528 in The Handbook
of Economic Sociology edited by N. J. Smelser and R. Swedberg. New York:
Russelll Sage Foundation.
Occupational Mobility
Blau, Peter and Otis Duncan. “Measuring the Status of Occupations.” Pp.344-372 in G.
Blau, Peter and Otis Duncan. “The Process of Stratification.” Pp. 390-403 in G.
Hout Michael. 2003. “What We Have Learned: RC28's Contributions to Knowledge."
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Treiman, Donald. “Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspectives.” Pp. 260-263 in
G.
Gradational Status Groupings and Status Attainment
Breen, Richard and John H. Goldthorpe. “Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards
a Formal Rational Action Theory.” Pp. 459-470 in G.
Hauser, Robert M. and John RobertWarren. 1997. “Socioeconomic Indexes for
Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique." Sociological Methodology 27: 177-298.
Hodge, Robert M. 1981. “The Measurement of Occupational Status." Social Science
Research 10.
Sewell, William H., Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes. 1969. “The Educational
and Early Occupational Attainment Process." ASR 34: 82-92.
Labor Market
The General Economic Perspective
Abbott, Andrew. 1993. “The Sociology of Work and Occupations.” Annual Review of
Sociology 19:187-209.
Beck, E.M., Patrick M. Horan, and Charles M. Tolbert II. 1978. “Stratification in a Dual
Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earnings Determination." ASR 43(5):704-720.
Doeringer, Peter and Michael Piore. 1971. Internal Labor Market and Manpower
Analysis. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, NY: London: M. E. Shape, Inc..
Granovetter, Mark. 1981. Ch.2. Toward a Sociological Theory of Income Differences." in
Ivar Berg (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets, New York: Academic
Press.
Granovetter, Mark. 1998. “The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market
Analysis: A Social Structural View.” Pp. 187-216. in Industries, Firms, and Jobs:
Sociological and Economic Approaches, edited by George Farkers and Oaula England.
New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Hauser, Robert. 1980 “On “Stratification in a Dual Economy"." ASR 45(4):702-712.
Beck, E. M., Patrick Horan and Charles M. Tolbert, II. 1980. “Social Stratification in
Industrial Society: Further Evidence for a Structural Alternative.” ASR 45(4):712-719.
Halaby, Charles N. and David L. Weakliem. 1993. “Ownership and Authority in the
Earnings Function: Nonnested Tests of Alternative Specification." ASR 58(1): 16-30.有
Krueger, Alan B. and Lawerence H. Summers. 1987 “Reflections on the
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Inter-IndustryWage Structure." Pp. 17-47 in Unemployment and the Structure of Labor
Markets edited by K. Lang and J. S. Leonard. New York: Basil Blackwell. Sakamoto R
Lang, Kevin and William T. Dickens. 1988. “Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives
on Segmented Labor Markets." in edited by George Farkas and Paula England Industries,
Firms, and Jobs. New York: Plenum Press.
Logan, John Allen. 1996a. “Opportunity and Choice in Socially Structured Labor
Markets." AJS 102(1): 114-160.
Piore, Michael J. 1970. “The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications." In Samuel H.
Beer and Richard E. Barringer (eds) The State and the Poor. Cambridge, Mass: Winthrop
Publishers. in G
Sakamoto, Arthur and Meichu Chen. 1991. “Inequality and Attainment in a Dual Labor
Market." ASR 56:295-308.
Sakamoto, Arthur and Daniel Powers. 1995. “Education and the Dual Labor Market for
Japanese Men." ASR 60:222-246.
Sorensen, Aage B. 1977. “The Structure of Inequality and the Process of Attainment.”
ASR 42:965-978.
Sorensen, Aage B. and Arne L. Kalleberg. 1981 Ch.3. An Outline of a Theory of the
Matching of Persons to Jobs." In Ivar Berg (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on Labor
Markets, New York: Academic Press.
Thurow, Lester C. 1975. Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S.
Economy New York: Basic Books.
Wright, Erik Olin. 1993. “Typologies, Scales, and Class Analysis: A Comment on
Halaby and Wealkiem's “Ownership and Authority in the Earnings Function"." ASR
58(1):31-34.
The Global Perspective
Craig, Christine et. al. 1985 “Economic, Social, and Political Factors in the Operation of
the Labor Market,” pp. 105-123 in B. Roberts (ed.), New Approaches to Economic Life.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1999. Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies.
Forbel, Folker, Jurgen Heinrichs and Otto Kreye. 1980. The New International Division
of Labor: Structural Unemployment in Industrialized Countries and Industrialization in
Developing Countire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, David, Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich, 1982. “The Historical
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Transformation of Labor: an Overview,” pp. 1-17 in Segmented Work, Divided Workers.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Guillen, Mauro F. 2000 ”Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble? A Critique
of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature” Annual Review of Sociology Vol.
27: 135-260.
Humphrey, John, 1987. “Introduction,” and “Conclusions,” pp. 1-12 and 195-201, in
Gender and Work in the Third World. London: Tavistock.
Roberts, Bryan, 1994. “Informal economy and family strategies.” International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research,18 (1): 6-24.
Portes, A. Castells, M and L. Benton. 1989. The Informal Economy. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Tilly, Chris and Charles Tilly. 1994. “Capitalist Work and Labor Markets,” Chapter 12 in
S.
Wilson, Fiona. 1993. “Workshops as Domestic Domains: Reflections on Small-Scale
Industry in Mexico”, World Development, Vol. 21 (1): 67-80.
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