- Docente: Marco Santoro
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
STATISTICS, ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS (cod. 8056)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in STATISTICAL SCIENCES (cod. 8054)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have the tools - conceptual and methodological - for reading economic phenomena in a perspective sensitive to their social, cultural, historical and institutional dimensions. She will be able to distinguish between formal and substantial conceptions of economy, to identity main conceptual alternatives in the analysis of the economic life, and to compare and assess the model of economic life in which she is living.
Course contents
The course offers those instruments useful for an understanding of
social, historical and cultural aspetcs of contemporary economy,
moving from a critical discussion of economic theory and passing
thorugh the sociological classics (Weber, Durkheim, Simmel and
Marx) and contemporary scholars (like Bourdieu, Zelizer,
DiMaggioand Granovetter) who work in the field of so called
"new economic sociology". Special attention will be devoted to the
case of professions as instance of social construction of markets
and integration between economic and cultural factors.
What is economic sociology
From the classics to the "new economic sociology"
The social construction of economic relations
Cultural economy, cultural production and cultural capital
The case of the professionsReadings/Bibliography
P. Steinert, Economia, mercati, società, Bologna, Il Mulino 2012
(new edition)
P. Bourdieu, Ragioni pratiche, Bologna, Mulino 2009
(Introduzione by M. Santoro + Premessa, Capp. I, II, V,
VI).
M. Santoro (a cura di) La cultura come capitale, Bologna, Mulino
2009 (Introduzione + 3 chapters free choice).
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Marco Santoro