THE SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO FINANCIAL MARKETS
梳理了金融社会学近二十年的发展，从信息概念出发，比较社会结构、新制度主义和金融社会研究三种取向如何理解金融市场及其方法论，适合想了解社会学如何分析金融市场的读者。
Abstract As a part of the renaissance and growth of economic sociology during the past two decades, and in response to processes such as economic globalization, financial markets have been increasingly scrutinized by sociologists. Their investigation is seen as relevant with respect to understanding the structure and dynamics of advanced societies, the dynamics of social development, as well as fundamental aspects of human behaviour. This paper charts recent developments in the sociology of financial markets; its starting point is the treatment of the concept of information within three sociological orientations: the social‐structural approach, sociological neo‐institutionalism and the newer social studies of finance. By highlighting their different assumptions about information and market behaviour, I discuss how these approaches conceptualize financial markets, the methodological implications and the ways in which they contribute to the study of financial exchanges.