【作者简介】廖 越，18新利网站、社会学院

【文章来源】《社会学评论》2025年第5期

【内容提要】“嵌入性”是经济社会学（以及人类学）的核心理论视角，一直被视为该领域对经济研究的重要贡献。尽管嵌入性范式影响深远，但其在具体应用中时常面临如何更深入地揭示经济过程的内在机制以及有效回应主流经济学理论挑战的批评，这在一定程度上影响到经济社会学的学科定位与发展。本文梳理了 21 世纪以来经济社会学在“嵌入性”范式陷入困境后的三个新的研究方向：关系运作、述行性和经济化，分析了它们各自如何拓宽“嵌入性”范式的理论视野，并探讨了这些理论对中国研究的启示与意义。

【关键词】嵌入性 / 经济社会学 / 关系运作 / 述行性 / 经济化

【全文链接】http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V13/I5/210

After Embeddedness: Three New Directions in the 21st Century Economic Sociology

Abstract: Embeddedness has long been regarded as the dominant research paradigm in economic sociology (as well as anthropology) and a core contribution of the field to economic studies. Despite its profound influence, the embeddedness paradigm has faced widespread criticism for its inability to further break through the explanatory framework of Western economics, leading to an ongoing crisis of disciplinary legitimacy for economic sociology. This paper examines three new research directions: relational work, performativity, and economization, emerging in economic sociology since the 21st century as the embeddedness paradigm encountered challenges. It analyzes how these approaches broaden the theoretical horizons of the embeddedness paradigm and explores their implications and significance for research in the Chinese context.