Accounting for the Chinese context: a comparative analysis of international and Chinese accounting standards focusing on business combinations
in Socio-Economic Review
October 2007; published online October 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 11683 words.
This paper aims at understanding the recent evolution of Chinese accounting standards while focusing on accounting for business combinations as a case of reference. A comprehensive comparative...
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
in Socio-Economic Review
October 2007; published online October 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 11457 words.
Within the last decade, international accounting, as a common language of business and a mode of governance, has come to be widely disseminated in China, and has become an indispensable...
Acting out institutional change: understanding the recent transformation of the French financial system
in Socio-Economic Review
July 2007; published online June 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 19644 words.
For the purposes of understanding the causes and implications of the growth of financial markets around the world, I focus on a crucial aspect of the dramatic transformation of French capitalism...
Adapting social security to a new societal environment
in Reinventing social security worldwide
May 2010; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: economic sociology. 3065 words.
This chapter looks at adapting social security to a new societal environment. It begins with a study of the impact of economic crises on social security institutions using an historical perspective,...
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Adolescence
in Sociology
Published online April 2012.
Article. Subjects: sociology; comparative and historical sociology; economic sociology; gender and sexuality; health, illness, and medicine; population and demography; race and ethnicity; social movements and social change; social stratification, inequality, and mobility; social theory. 13493 words.
The sociology of adolescence focuses on biological, social, economic, and psychological development of youth during the period between childhood and adulthood. In this period, typical...
Advances in explaining women's employment patterns
in Socio-Economic Review
April 2012; published online January 2012.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 9126 words.
This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial differences in women's employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers...
Advancing the socio-economic paradigm with institutional analysis
in Socio-Economic Review
January 2003; published online January 2003.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 0 words.
The affluent society and its religious consequences: an empirical investigation of 20 European countries
in Socio-Economic Review
April 2011; published online November 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 9006 words.
This paper offers an alternative account of the frequently observed association between gross domestic product growth and a decline in traditional church attendance. The approach follows Durkheim's...
African Americans, Slavery, and Thrift from the Revolution to the Civil War
in Thrift and Thriving in America
July 2011; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: economic sociology. 11578 words.
This chapter traces the role that notions of thrift played in the history of race in pre-Civil War America. In particular, it highlights how white Americans reserved “the virtues of thrift—...
Against all odds: the ‘loyalty’ of small investors†
in Socio-Economic Review
January 2011; published online October 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: economic sociology. 12501 words.
The share of small investors leaving the financial market in autumn 2008 was no greater than in previous, smaller crises. Why is there no mass exodus at such junctures? Why do most small investors...