Economic and Financial Sociology (EFS)

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AC Ciências Sociais > UC Optativas

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Nível

1º Ciclo (L)

Tipo

Não Estruturante

Regime

Semestral

Carga Horária

Aula Teórica (T): 0.0 h/semana

Aula Prática (PL): 3.0 h/semana

Trabalho Autónomo: 68.0 h/semestre

Créditos ECTS: 4.0

Objectivos

The main objectives of this course are the following:
- to study the theories and the concepts of economic sociology;
- to understand the social and cultural dynamics of markets;
- to discuss the sociological approaches to value construction and to the definition of the tradable;
- to explain the models and the forms of development in the context of globalization;
- to study the trends of contemporary finance sociology;
- to understand the actions and the inner logics of the main players of the financial world;
- to discuss sociological approaches to capital and financial markets;
- to explain the social and cultural constraints of money and financial markets in the context of globalization.

Programa

- What is Economic Sociology? Boundaries and Limits. Economic Sociology vs. Economics. Beyond the Homo Oeconomicus and the Homo Sociologicus;
- A Brief History of Economic Sociology: The Founding Fathers (1840-1920). The Great Divide - From Schumpeter and Polanyi to the Parsonian Project. The Emergence of a New Paradigm - the Eighties and the New Economic Sociology;
- The Vocabulary of the New Economic Sociology: Embeddedness, Social Capital, Trust, Social Networks, Performativity. The Social Capital debate. Dirty Hands vs. Clean Models?
- The Social Construction of Value. The Economic Sociology of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism. Special Markets and special commodities. The market for blood and organs. Auctions or the language of value(s);
- Institutions and Organizations. Isomorphism and Legitimacy. The Ecological Hypothesis. Who Controls the Modern Organizations. The shareholder value consensus. The Business Groups Issue;
- The Social Construction of Markets. Ideological Constructions. Defining Exchange and its varieties. The Social Construction of Competition. Socio-Economic Models of Production;
- The Economic Sociology of Capitalism and Globalization. Industry Creating Mechanisms in Advanced Societies. The Eastern Transitions. Risk and Uncertainty;
- The Sociology of Financial Markets. Information and Arbitrage. The Performativity Hypothesis. The Big Bang and the Globalization of the Financial Markets. The Rhetoric of the Market. The Social Meanings of Money;
- The Economic Sociology of Public Finance. Finanz Soziologie or Fiscal Sociology? Bringing the State Back In? Fiscal Illusion and Fiscal Culture;
- Culture and Economics. Culture Industries. Between homogeneity and heterogeneity. Consumption and Life Styles. The Art World. The post materialist values debate;

Metodologia de avaliação

The final grade will result from the weighted average of a research group project (50%) to be presented in one of the final three classes of the course; class participation (20%); and one individual essay (30%). The themes will be distributed at the beginning of the semester. A final exam will be available for the students whose option is not to take part in the group project and the individual essay.

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