Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert
Director
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-216
Fax: +49 221 2767-418
Personal homepage
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-216
Fax: +49 221 2767-418
Personal homepage
Research Interests
role of the economy in society, especially based on the study of markets; organizational sociology; sociology of inheritance; sociological theoryResearch Projects
- Introduction to "Sociology of Markets"
- How Are Markets Possible?
- Fictionality in Economic Action
- The Production of Cultural Meaning and Price Formation on Wine Markets
- Political Regulation in the Wine Market
- Constructing Quality
- The Structure of Illegal Markets
Selected Publications
Inherited Wealth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy (ed. with P. Aspers). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Where Do Prices Come From? Sociological Approaches to Price Formation. Socio-Economic Review 9, 4, 757-786 (2011)
Institutional Isomorphism Revisited: Convergence and Divergence in Institutional Change. Sociological Theory 28, 2, 150-166 (2010)
The Social Order of Markets. Theory and Society 38, 3, 245-269 (2009)
How Do Fields Change? The Interrelations of Institutions, Networks, and Cognition in the Dynamics of Markets. Organization Studies, 31, 5, 605-627 (2010)
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Vita
| since 2005 | Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies |
| since 2005 | Member of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Cologne |
| 2003-2005 | Professor of Sociology at the University of Göttingen |
| 2003 | Habilitation in sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2002-2003 | Associate Professor of Sociology at the International University Bremen |
| 1996 | Dr. phil. in sociology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1993-2002 | Various research positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Princeton University and Harvard University |
| 1991; 1993 | MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research; MBA at the Freie Universität Berlin |
Professional Activities (Selected)
Member of the Executive Board of the Economic Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS)Member of the Council of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Students Award, Körber-Stiftung
Editor, European Journal of Sociology
Editorial boards of the journals Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, and Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter
Awards and Honors (Selected)
2010 : Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities2008: First Prize of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Articles in the Social Sciences in 2007 for: Jens Beckert/Mark Lutter, "Wer spielt, hat schon verloren? Zur Erklärung des Nachfrageverhaltens auf dem Lottomarkt" (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 59, 2, 240-270, 2007)
Oct. 2007-Jan. 2008: Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
2005: Best Law Book of the Year, awarded by Neue Juristische Wochenschrift for: Jens Beckert, "Unverdientes Vermögen" (Frankfurt a.M., Campus, 2004)
2005: Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science, donated by the Commerzbank Stiftung