Neil Fligstein

Neil Fligstein (born May 23, 1951) is an American sociologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research spans economic sociology, political sociology, and organizational theory.

Fligstein's theoretical work in economic sociology includes developing a "political-cultural" approach to "markets in corporate control," "the architecture of markets," and "markets as politics." These concepts have been applied to study the European Union's development of a single market through cooperative political processes. In 2012, he co-authored ''A Theory of Fields'' with Doug McAdam, which proposes a unified framework for analyzing social orders in politics, economics, and social movements. Provided by Wikipedia