Economy and Society

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The classes are theoretical-practical, composed of an expository part by the teacher, complemented by discussions with the students about the theories and concepts and their application to the analysis of specific cases, which may be introduced by the teacher or presented by the students regarding possible individual or group work. The main objective is to develop in the students the skills of autonomous and reflexive interpretation on the literature and the operational skills in the analysis of practical cases.

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit aims to: 1. introduce students to the problems of the relationship between economics and society, as well as the contributions of economic sociology to the structuring of this debate; discuss the classical theoretical contributions and the most recent ones, in order to understand historically economic phenomena and the way in which they are constituted as the object of a specific domain of sociology; develop skills for reflection and critical analysis of the main concepts and theories, as well as its application to the analysis of contemporary reality.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Economics as a social fact: from classical economic sociology to the new economic sociology

2. The social structuring of the economy: politics, institutions, fields and networks

3. Markets as social devices: exchanges, judgments, calculations and value formation

4. Substantive economics, socio-economics and social economics

5. Economic organizations, companies and entrepreneurship

6. Economic practices: consumption, care and intimacy

7. Economic sociology in Portugal

Head Lecturer(s)

Daniel Neves da Costa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Bourdieu, P. 2006, As estruturas sociais da economia. Porto: Campo das Letras.

Callon, M. (ed) 1998, The Laws of the Markets. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review.

Dobbin, F. 2004, The New Economic Sociology: A Reader, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Flisgstein, N. 2001, The Architecture of the Markets. An Economic Sociology of a twenty-first-century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hillenkamp, I. e Laville J.L. (orgs.), Socioéconomie et démocratie. L'actualité de Karl Polanyi, Ramonville - Saint-Agne, Erès.

Peixoto, J. e Marques, R. (orgs), 2003, A nova sociologia económica. Oeiras: Celta Editora.

Reis, J. 2007, Ensaios de Economia Impura. Coimbra: Almedina.

Smelser, N. J. e Swedbergh (orgs.), 2005, The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Priceton: Princeton University Press.

Veloso, L. e Carmo, R., 2012, A constituição social da economia. Lisboa: Mundos Sociais.

Zeliger, V. A. 2010, Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy, Princeton University Press.