Exchange, action, and social structure : elements of economic sociology / Milan Zafirovski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index.

The Social Constitution of the Economy -- Characteristics of Neo-Weberian Economic Sociology -- Applying a Sociological Approach to Economic Exchange -- Grounding Economic Exchange on Social Action/Structure -- Economic Anomalies or Normal Sociological Phenomena? -- The Concept of Social Exchange Revised -- A Note on Catallactics -- Economic Exchange and Socially Formed Motivations -- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in Economic Exchange -- The Social Construction of the Role of Money in Economic Exchange -- Money and Non-Monetary Motivation in Economic Exchange -- Institutional Motivations versus Propensities for Exchanging -- Social Motivation in Non-Market Modes of Economic Exchange -- The Political Structuration of Economic Exchange -- Political Institutions and Economic Exchange -- The State and Economic Exchange -- The Impact of Other Political Factors on Economic Exchange -- Political Ideology and Economic Exchange -- Markets as Power Constellations -- An Instance of the Political Structuration of Economic Exchange -- The Cultural Constitution of Economic Exchange -- Exchange as a Cultural Creation -- Exchange and Moral Norms -- Exchange and Traditions -- Cultural Foundations of the Spirit and Practice of Capitalism -- Instances of the Cultural Construction of Exchange -- The Institutional Organization of Labor Markets (Income Distribution) -- The (Neo)Classical Economic Theory of Distribution -- Institutional Influences on Income Distribution -- Post-Materialistic Tendencies in Labor Markets and Society.