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Sociologies économiques française et chinoise : regards croisés

Edited by Laurence Roulleau Berger, Liu Shiding

De l'Orient à l'Occident



French and Chinese economic sociologies: cross-cultural approach

Economic sociology has quite rapidly taken shape in China as if precipitated by the major economic, social and historical transformations. Both there and in France it is a dominant field in which central theoretical and epistemological issues are raised. In this volume, French and Chinese sociologists share specific interests and, for the first time, confront their perspectives on different objects of research: local government, social networks and intermediate regulation; phenomena of domination and resistance in labour markets; gender and labour; markets, values and conventions; trust, economic exchange and social interaction; innovation and productive networks. Although, initially, American influences played a major role in their construction, the new French and Chinese economic sociologies have progressively attained autonomy and elaborated situated knowledge. In both China and France, the boundaries of economic sociology have been traced according to specific scientific trajectories, a diversity of positions and terrain-based science. They define «specific» and «shared» theoretical and methodological spaces. As the product of pioneering academic research, this work offers an innovative intersecting approach to French and Chinese economic sociologies.