同美国乔治敦大学教授Dennis McNamara（孟南水）共同开设《宏观经济社会学》课程

 

孟南水教授四次上课时间（2月28日、3月7日、14日、21日）

周一上午（8:00—10:30）

地点：中国人民大学第二教学楼一层2107教室。

欢迎前来聆听孟南水教授的课（工作语言：英语；他能听懂一定程度的汉语表达）。

 

主要参考文献及内容如下：

Macro-Economic Sociology

 

Sociology Department

Renmin University

February 2011

 

Dennis McNamara 孟南水, PhD

Department of Sociology

Georgetown University

 

Lecture 1: Economic Sociology 经济社会学

-        Drucker, Peter F. 1994. Post-capitalist Society. New York, NY: HarperBusiness.

-        Granovetter, Mark. “Economic Action and Social Structure: the Problem of Embeddedness.” Pp. 53-81 in Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedburg, eds., The Sociology of Economic Life. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992.

-        McNamara, Dennis L. “National Interest versus Regional Innovation,” pp. 57-18 in his Business Innovation in Asia – Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Lecture 2: Production 生产

-        Abama, Albert-Jan, and Henry J. van der Windt. 2009. "China, India, and the New Asian Innovation Dynamics: An Introduction." Pp. 1-26 in The New Asian Innovation Dynamics - China and India in Perspective, edited by Govindan Parayil and Anthony P. D'Costa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

-        Gereffi, Gary, John Humphrey, and Timothy Sturgeon. 2005. "The Governance of Global

Value Chains." Review of International Political Economy 12, 1 (February): 78-104.

-        Giddens, Anthony. “Trust and Modernity.” Pp. 77-91 in his The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.

-        Tonkiss, Fran. 2006. “Fordism and After.” Chapter 4 in Contemporary Economic Sociology - Globalisation, Production, Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Lecture 3: Consumption消费

-        Croll, Elisabeth J. 2006. "Conjuring Goods, Identities and Cultures." Pp. 22-42 in Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China, edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, and Jakob Klein. London: Routledge. Sociology of

-        Ritzer, Enchanting a Disenchanted World, “Preface,” pp. ix-xii, and c. 1, "A Tour of the New Means of Consumption," pp. 1-26.

Lecture 4: Business and Society生意与社会

-        Guthrie, Doug, and Junmin Wang.  2007. “Business Organizations in China.” Pp 99-121 in Henry Wai-Cheung Yeung, ed., Handbook of Research on Asian Business. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

-        Kriz, Anton, and Byron Keatings. 2010. "Business Relationships in China: Lessons about Deep Trust." Asia Pacific Business Review 16 3(July):299-318.

-        Rottman, Joseph W. “Successful Knowledge Transfer within Offshore Supplier Networks: A Case Study Exploring Social Capital in Strategic Alliances.” Pp. 151-176 in Illan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, and Leslie P. Willcocks, eds. Outsourcing Global Services: Knowledge, Innovation and Social Capital. New York:  Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.

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As the earliest economists recognised, economic institutions are of profound importance to society as a whole and the social context affects the nature of local economic institutions. Karl Marx studied society as a principally economic entity and individuals as subjected to massive economic forces outside of their control. The founding figures of sociology, such as Max Weber, similarly regarded economic processes as fundamental to the structure of society. Georg Simmel,  pressed our understanding of the sociological meaning of money and consumption. .. Later Marxist economic thought has focused on the social implications of consumerism and economic development within the system of economic relations that produce them. .. Current economic sociology focuses particularly on the social consequences of economic exchanges, the social meanings they involve and the social interactions they facilitate or obstruct. (See http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/ Economic_sociology)

 

Economic Sociology in the West has moved gradually from West to East, from production to consumption, and from affluent societies to economic development. Weber and Marx looked to production in capitalist and socialist societies already from the late nineteenth century. The end of the Cold War confrontation of socialist versus capitalist polities brought new attention to the role of markets in society. Scholars organized then within the American and British Sociological Associations, the International Sociological Association, and the International Institute of Sociology to focus on the study of economy and society.

 

The course introduces three topics of current interest in the field: production, consumption, and their combination in studies of business and society.

Concepts in Economic Sociology

 

Knowledge. Anthony Giddens brought the study of reflexivity to the forefront of Sociology. Lash and Urry more recently refocused the study of Sociology to signs and symbols to capture insights of the “Cultural Turn” in the discipline.

 

Social Network. We begin with Simmel’s (1955) classic statement that “...society arises from the individual and that the individual arises out of association” (p. 163).  We argue that shifts in possible social network structures represent an important avenue to understanding contemporary social change.  p. 53 (Pescosolido and Rubin 2000)..

 

Modernity. Above the individual level, the separation of time and space that came with the intersection of social circles also broke the restraints of local habits and practices (Giddens 1990: 20). p. 56.. 10. With networks based (at least to some degree) on information and choice, rather than on kinship and place, modern societal forms created trust in abstract systems and saw the rise of institutions such as banking and transportation (Giddens 1990: 113). p. 56, 57

 

Globalization – flows of space versus flows of place (Castells and Cardoso 2006a). As modern society “tears” space from place, allowing and even fostering relations between “absent” others... p. 57 (Giddens 1990).

Production

 

The study of differences among market-society relations across societies remains a prominent theme, sometimes referred to as the “comparative capitalisms” literature (Morgan, Whitley and Moen 2005). The work looks mainly to firms and production.

 

The work on Global Production Chains has developed in two directions. Gary Gereffi and colleagues have looked to more theoretical issues in the development of production chains, particularly the issue of power (Henderson 2004).  Gereffi (Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon 2005) noted his intent is to bring some order to the variety of network forms that have been observed in the field. 79. “Network theorists (e.g., Jarillo, 1988; Lorenz, 1988; Powell, 1990; Thorelli, 1986) argue that trust, reputation, and mutual dependence dampen opportunistic behavior, and in so doing they make possible more complex inter-firm divisions of labor and interdependence than would be predicted by transaction costs theory. 81” Usually governance includes market or horizontal relations, network with mixes of horizontal and vertical ties, and hierarchy within firms. Gereffi and colleagues add thee alternatives within “networks,” modular value chains, relational value chains, and captive value chains.

Consumption

 

Seminal thinkers as diverse as Baudrillard and Bourdieu alerted us to the importance of consumption in contemporary market society. Others such as George Ritzer looked to institutions of consumption, and suggested a theoretical turn to “relations of consumption,” rather than simply “relations of production.” Links with Anthropology have helped focus some of the new work in consumer society, particularly the work of Steven Miles. Yet despite the importance of both production and consumption in the study of market relations, Economic Sociology remains strong on production and weak on consumption.

Business and Society

 

Studies of trust have evolved issues of social capital within and between firms. Supply chain management has benefitted greatly from the study of global value chains. Network theory provides a conceptual framework for analyzing social bonds in the business world.