The strength of interconnectedness between structure and culture:market development in the presence of overembedded social structure in the lime market of Hui Town  

作　　者：Ping Fu 

机构地区：[1]College of Sociology,Central China Normal University,152 Luoyu Road,Wuhan City,Hubei Province 430079,People’s Republic of China

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2016年第1期495-521,共27页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China(grant number 201306);the Fok Ying-Tong Education for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China(grant number 141089);the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of PR China(grant number 15JJD840006).

摘　　要：This article brings together two different approaches in the new economicsociology—structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness—to understand thetransformation and development of a market.Markets are considered over-embedded insocial structure and assessed to be in decline when their economic transactions aredependent on secondary clientelism,in which the reseller serves as patron and thesupplier as client.Based on ethnographic data from the lime market in Hui Town,thisstudy examines how this kind of market develops in the presence of transactionsembedded in secondary clientelism.From the perspective of the interconnected modebetween structure and culture,these findings demonstrate that the coupling inductionfrom secondary clientelist networks and new business ideology is the underlyingmechanism allowing market development.This means that the process of marketizationmight not necessarily be associated with market transactions’depersonalization or socialdisembedding,and instead development may be hindered if the market is devoid ofsocial bonds and social virtue.

关 键 词：Market development Interconnected mode between structure and culture Over-embedded social structure Secondary clientelism 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]