The course provides to students a deepen and broad insight to classical and contemporary economic sociology main theoretical and empirical achievements. It teaches to place economic agents and phenomena in their own institutional and normative context. Moreover, it focuses on some of the most recent methodologies and discoveries of the sociology of finance.
Course Prerequisites
No pre-requirements
Teaching Methods
Lectures and in class discussions about selelected topics
Assessment Methods
In class presentation of a paper chosen within a list proposed by the teacher.
Written final exam
Texts
Swedberg, R. Principles of Economic Sociology, Princeton and Oxford Publishing, 2003 (and following editions). Only chapters 1 and 2.
Mark Granovetter, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology. Online for free
Contents
The programme entails three distcint but closely correlated stages or modules: 1) an overview of classical economic sociology. 2) insights in contemporary economic sociolgy and the sociology of finance. 3) focus on a yearly changing topic of research and discussion (in the past, cryptocurrencies; climate change).
