EDITORIAL (ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY)
main goal of this issue of the Newsletter is to highlight the body of scholarly work within economic sociology which examines the main stream economy from the viewpoint of the economic periphery. How is the mainstream economy viewed from its margins? What obstacles do deprived-minorities who wish to enter the market face? What strategies are employed by marginal social groups in order to survive in a hostile economic environment and to improve their market position? When do minorities withdraw from the mainstream economy and constitute an economic enclave? Grounded answers to these questions highlight the unique contribution of economic sociology to the empirical investigation of the structuring of markets, and to policy making which integrates all layers of society and their varied images and experiences of the market.
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