Culture and markets: How economic sociology conceptualizes culture

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 619, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-129

  Levin, Peter ^a  

^a USA

Author keywords

Cultural sociology; Performativity; Social studies of finance; Sociology of markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649099579     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208319904     Document Type: Review

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