摘要：Economic sociology seemed to ap-pear out of nowhere in the 1990s, formalized as a field by the creation othe ASA Section on Economic Sociology in 1999, and growing rapidly from there. What was notable about the early membership of the Section, and many of its officers and luminaries since then, is that they would be equally at home in Organizations, Occupations & Work; indeed, the two sections are like a sociological Minneapolis/St. Paul. They claim similar ancestors, their prelim reading lists share great overlaps, and the boundaries between them are highly permeable. (Doctoral students that take my course on organization theory and Mark Mizruchi’s course on economic sociology during the same semester report a Groundhog Day experience.) Perhaps this is unsurprising: much of what concerns economic sociologists revolves around the corporation and the institutions that surround it, which organization theorists should have something to say about. But if economic sociology is so often about organizations, why did so many organization theorists start identifying themselves as “economic sociologists” during the 1990s?
