Richard Swedberg

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Richard Swedberg (born May 18, 1948 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish sociologist .

After studying law with an LL.M. in law in 1970 at Stockholm University, he studied sociology and did a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1978 from the Department of Sociology at Boston College . In 1984 he returned to Stockholm University, where he taught sociology with a focus on economic sociology until 2002. It was during this phase that he dealt with the classics of social economics Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter . Since July 2002 he has been a full-time professor of sociology at the internationally renowned Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University (New York, USA), where he dedicates himself to current economic sociological topics such as new capitalism, entrepreneurship and the self-image of economic sociology.

In the 2018/2019 class he is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, where he deals with theory formation from a sociological perspective.

Fonts

  • Markets as social structures. Univ., Department of Sociology, 1993.
  • with Peter Hedström (Ed.): Social mechanisms. An analytical approach to social theory. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • (Ed.): Entrepreneurship: the social science view. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Max Weber and the idea of ​​economic sociology. Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • with Mark S. Granovetter (Ed.): The sociology of economic life. Vol. 3. Boulder. eCO CO. Westview Press, 2001.
  • Principles of economic sociology. Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • with Neil J. Smelser (Ed.): The handbook of economic sociology. Princeton University Press, 2010.

literature

  • Andrea Maurer : Richard Swedberg and economic sociology - passion and a sense of proportion. Foreword in: Richard Swedberg: Fundamentals of economic sociology. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15870-9 , pp. 9–29 ( excerpt in the Google book search)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2018/2019. Richard Swedberg, Ph.D. In: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Katharina Wiedemann, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Neubauer: Heads and Ideas 2019. “Everyone can learn to theorize better!” In: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Katharina Wiedemann, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Swedberg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm