Abstract:

In this article, Turkish economic sociologists and their works are examined in their historical contexts, by pursuing a chronological order but from a relational point of view. The findings of the analysis allow us to examine the development of economic sociology in three periods. The first period that started with the 1933 University Reform, is characterized by the separate and contradictory influences of the German and American schools. In the second period, the ISI policies caused the sociology of development to become prominent in the field. And finally, the third period, which corresponds to neo-liberal transformation process, reinforced the approaches focusing on the historical specificity of market-society relations within the problematic of institutional change, and also on the social construction of markets and on the societal power relations underlying this very process. Consequently, determinants of diversification of perspectives are recorded as follows: the characteristic of the capital accumulation regime in force, the international intellectual interaction, and the way in which modern and traditional power relations are articulated

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