Summer issue of the European Economic Sociology Newsletter is out, with various contributions by the most prominent authors working in the field of economic sociology. For instance, Karin Knorr Cetina has written an editorial on economic sociology and sociology of finances, and there is an interview with Viviana Zelizer. In addition to authored essays, you can find book reviews and recommendations, and information about some PhD projects in economic sociology. The editor of the newsletter is Nina Bandelj. Be sure to look this issue up online. 

The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology edited by Bryan S. Turner has recently been published. It gathers some of the most important sociologist today, and in 708 pages providing one of the most authoritative portrayals of sociological knowledge to date. Visit the publisher's website to find out who the contributors are, and to learn more about the book's content. 

New issue of the European Economic Sociology Newsletter is out, edited by its new editor Nina Badelj. Here is a part of her introduction to the issue: 

"While providing a broad range of stimulating contributions, this issue pays special attention to comparative cross-national economic sociology. Comparison, as Durkheim claimed, is integral to sociology. Not surprisingly, an increasing number of economic sociologists employ comparisons to examine the varieties of economic outcomes across countries, regions, organizations, and other social groups. Comparison helps reveal the diversity and/or commonality in macro-economic organization, market outcomes, work patterns, economic practices within households, and other areas of economic life. This issue presents a sampling of this diverse research and extends an invitation to economic sociologists to think in broadly comparative terms.

Setting the comparative stage, Lars Mjøset reflects upon the study of Nordic varieties of capitalism to put forth, as he states, "a plea for contextual generalization through comparative specification." Moving from a cross-national comparison of capitalist organization to a cross-national comparison of organizational outcomes, Marta Kahancová employs an opportune research design by contrasting work practices and industrial relations of four firms in different European countries, all subsidiaries of one multinational corporation. Using data from countries as diverse as Sweden, the U.K., India and Turkey to highlight commonalities rather than differences, Patrik Aspers examines emergence and persistence of order in global garments markets. Erik Larson reports some of his research findings from an interesting study of the creation and operation of stock market exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland. Interested in households as settings of economic activity, Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnič provide a short overview of their cross-national research on the household division of labour in Germany, Finland and the U.S. "

 Be sure to check out the European Economic Sociology Newsletter, November 2006

Editorial Foreword
Pope, Catherine; Crow, Graham
Pages: 789-791

Geodemographics, Software and Class
Burrows, Roger; Gane, Nicholas
Pages: 793-812

Displaced Masculinities: Chavs, Youth and Class in the Post-industrial City
Nayak, Anoop
Pages: 813-831

‘All that is Solid?’: Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steelworkers
Mackenzie, Robert; Stuart, Mark; Forde, Chris; Greenwood, Ian; Gardiner, Jean; Perrett, Robert
Pages: 833-852

Risky Bodies at Leisure: Young Women Negotiating Space and Place
Green, Eileen; Singleton, Carrie
Pages: 853-871

Activists and Emotional Reflexivity: Toward Touraine’s Subject as Social Movement
King, Debra S.
Pages: 873-891

Recovering Emotion from Emotion Management
Theodosius, Catherine
Pages: 893-910

The Menu in Society: Mediating Structures of Power and Enchanting Myths of Individual Sovereignty
Korczynski, Marek; Ott, Ursula
Pages: 911-928

Capitalizing on Value: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Kidnapping
Tzanelli, Rodanthi
Pages: 929-947

Living with Unemployment
Smith, Andrew
Pages: 949-955

Garfinkel and his Ethnomethodological ‘Bastards’
Jenkings, K. Neil
Pages: 957-963

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
Crossley, Nick
Pages: 965-968

The Changing Face of European Identity: A Seven-nation Study of (Supra)national Attachments, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe
Keating, Avril
Pages: 969-972