| CODE | SOC2038 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Economic Sociology 2 | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sociology | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | An introduction to Institutional ‘embeddedness’ of economic activity. ‘Performativity’ of economic and management discourses. Theory of ‘Régulation’: crisis of Fordism and later accumulation regimes. Sociological dimensions of Labour and Capital mobility. New Institutional Economics, a sociological appreciation. Pierre Bourdieu and economic sociology. Pioneer work of Harrison C. White, Mark Granovetter, Richard Swedberg, Karin Knorr Cetina and others. Application of Economic Sociology to the concrete analysis of specific cases (chosen on the basis of students’ interests). Reading List - Boyer, R. and Saillard, Y. eds. (2002) Régulation Theory: The State of the Art. Routledge. - Economic Sociology – the European Electronic Newsletter. Back issues from: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_archive.asp; and Free subscription from: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_subscription.asp - Granovetter, M. (1985) “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology. 91: 481-510. - Granovetter, M. and Swedberg, R. eds. (2001) The Sociology of Economic Life. 2nd edition, Westview Press. - Menard, C. and Shirley, M.M. eds. (2005) Handbook of New institutional Economics. Springer. - Smelser, N.J. and Swedberg, R. eds. (2005) (2nd edition). Handbook of Economic Sociology. 2nd edition. Princeton University Press. - Swedberg, R. (2004) “What has been accomplished by New Economic Sociology and where is it heading?” Archives Europeennes de Sociologie. - Trigilia, C. (2002) “Part II: Themes and Routes of Contemporary Economic Sociology”, Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism. Blackwell pp.117-254. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE SOC2034 | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mario Vella |
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