ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Optional subjects
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
6
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
40
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (40 hours)
Requirements: 

Curiosity.

Oral examination.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

To know how economics affect on society and individual (about money, work, consumption, welfare, network).

Introduction about economic sociology.
Society or community.
The modern capitalistic economy.
Adam Smith and Karl Marx: from use value to exchange value.
Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Comte, Weber, Galbraith, Luhmann.
M. Foucault: biopolitics, capitalism and the homo oeconomicus.
The money ‘philosophy’ (G.Simmel). The leisure class (T. Veblen).
Economy, religion and capitalism (M. Weber).
Capitalism as a religion (Benjamin).
From fordism to network.
Technics and capitalism (G. Anders).
The heavy modernity and the liquid modernity (Z. Bauman).
The Great Transformation (Polanyi).
New deal, Beveridge, neoliberism. The welfare state.
Ordoliberalism and neoliberism.
Globalization and the crisis of 2008.
Globalization and the new work organization.
The consumption society.
The mass-society.
Network economy and society.
Time and economy.
Economy, society, democracy or oligarchy.

See: Contenuti

Bibliography:
Demichelis L., ‘Sociologia della tecnica e del capitalismo’, FrancoAngeli, 2017.
E. Sadin, ‘Critica della ragione artificiale’, Luiss University Press, 2019; or H. Marcuse, ‘L’uomo a una dimensione’, Einaudi, 2004 (Introduction, Cap. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and Conclusion).

Convenzionale

Lessons with discussion.

Office hours
Tuesday, 12.30-13.30

Professors