CSES organizes research around Laboratories and Working Groups which provide an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to work together through regular meetings to advance ideas for research, present research in progress, and discuss topics of interest.
In accordance to its mission to be a multi-disciplinary research center promoting studies of economic sociology, network analysis, organizational behavior, and political economy, CSES strives to create an environment conducive to research—both in carrying it out and making it financially possible.
“Actors do not behave or decide as atoms outside a social context ... Their attempts at purposive action are instead embedded in concrete, ongoing systems of social relations.”— Mark Granovetter
