The Sociology of Economic Life

by Neil J. Smelser

Overview

Quality ebook reprint of a classic work in the social sciences, written by one of the leading scholars on the intersection of two important disciplines: economics and sociology. This is an unabridged republication of the second edition of this much-cited study.

Presented with care, the new NOOKbook edition features such proper digital formatting as active TOC, linked endnotes, fully-linked subject index and names index, and all the original graphs and tables. Neil Smelser's recognized guide is now part of the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016234243
Publisher:	Quid Pro, LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Series:	Classics of the Social Sciences , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	534 KB

About the Author

Neil J. Smelser earned degrees from Harvard and Oxford, as well as his PhD from Harvard in 1958. Most of his academic career has been spent in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is University Professor Emeritus. He has served as director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Dr. Smelser has been recognized by election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of the American Sociological Association. And in 2002 he received the first Mattei Dogan Award from the International Sociological Association, for a distinguished career in sociology.