The New Institutionalism in Sociology

Brinton, Mary C., and Victor Nee (eds).The New Institutionalism in Sociology. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001 (1998). Table of contents Abstract ReviewsExcerpt Contributors ix Foreword xi Robert K. Merton
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Sources of the New Institutionalism 1 Victor Nee

Part I Institutions and Social Norms 17
Chapter 2 Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure 19 Victor Nee and Paul Ingram
Chapter 3 Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County 46 Robert C. Ellickson
Chapter 4 Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies 77 Avner Greif
Chapter 5 Conflict over Changing Social Norms: Bargaining, Ideology, and Enforcement 105 Jack Knight and Jean Ensminger
Chapter 6 Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action 127 Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner

Part II Institutional Embeddedness in Capitalist Economics 151
Chapter 7 The Organization of Economies 153 Gary G. Hamilton and Robert Feenstra
Chapter 8 Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets 181 Mary C. Brinton and Takehiko Kariya
Chapter 9 Winner-Take-All Markets and Wage Discrimination 208 Robert H. Frank
Chapter 10 Institutions and the Labor Market 224 Bruce Western

Part III Institutional Change and Economic Performance 245
Chapter 11 Economic Performance Through Time 247 Douglass C. North
Chapter 12 Changing the Rules: Interests, Organizations, and Institutional Change in the U.S. Hospitality Industry 258 Paul Ingram
Chapter 13 The Importance of the Local: Rural Institutions and Economic Change in Preindustrial England 277 Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Chapter 14 Outline of an Institutionalist Theory of Inequality: The Case of Socialist and Postcommunist Eastern Europe 305 Ivan Szelenyi and Eric Kostello
Index