Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2007
Abstract
Our concern is to read Viviana Zelizer’s Purchase of Intimacy inrelation to Mark Granovetter’s embeddedness framework. We compare Zelizer’s connected-lives approach to the embeddedness literature in orderto tease out the similarities, differences, and improvements in the wayseconomic sociologists examine the intertwining of economic and socialbehavior. We argue that although Zelizer and Granovetter both focus onthis intermeshing of socioeconomic action, their perspectives reflect theirdiffering starting points: economic transactions or intimate relationships.We believe Zelizer’s connected-lives approach gives fresh insight to thenew economic sociology but we have some reservations regarding hertreatment of reciprocity and power in intimate relationships.
Discipline
Economics | Political Economy | Work, Economy and Organizations
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Sociological Forum
Volume
22
Issue
4
First Page
601
Last Page
606
ISSN
0884-8971
Identifier
10.1111/j.1573-7861.2007.00042_3.x
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
CAPUTO-LEVINE, Deirdre, LIM, Alwyn, & WILLS, Celine..(2007). Connected lives and embeddedness: Reading Zelizer with Granovetter – A review and critique. Sociological Forum, 22(4), 601-606.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2479
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2007.00042_3.x