ABSTRACT
Economic sociology focuses on a critique of models of rational self-interest, commonly used to explain economic phenomena. Network analysts have contributed to economic sociology by adopting as their unit of analysis to explain phenomena, for instance, successful job searches. It directly relates key historical developments of commerce, industry, and modernization to transformations in the thinking about human right as well as the actualization of specific rights in constitutions and laws. It also states that focusing on human rights can identify, analyze, legitimize, and promulgate new concepts of rights, thereby contributing to the success of reform. The field of economic sociology has analyzed the origins and implementation of, and the opposition to, the governmental market privatization policies, which were the reaction to the economic turmoil after 1973. Finally it explores that using conceptions of human rights as an analytic tool, can discover definitions of rights that have actually led to reforms of most advanced cause of human rights.
