Neil Fligstein

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Neil Fligstein (born May 23, 1951) is an American sociologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in economic sociology, political sociology, and organizational theory. He has produced both empirical and theoretical works.^[1]

Fligstein's main theoretical works focus on economic sociology, where he has created a "political-cultural" approach to 'markets in corporate control',^[2] 'the architecture of markets',^[3] and 'markets as politics'.^[4] He has used these ideas to study the European Union's attempt to create a single market through cooperative political means.^[5] In 2012, he published a book alongside Doug McAdam titled A Theory of Fields which proposes a cohesive view of field theory as an approach to studying many of the key features of modern life, including politics, the economy, and social movements.^[6]