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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Sociology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria |
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| Austerity and precarity in the age of globalization |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Austerity and precarity in the age of globalization | Code | 615525002 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| TOPIC 1 | Introduction to Austerity and Precariousness in the Era of Globalization | 1.1. Definition of Austerity and Precariousness 1.2. Historical and Political Context of Austerity and Precariousness in the Era of Globalization 1.3. The Keynesian Era (1950-1973) 1.4. The Neoliberal Turn (1973-2008) 1.5. Austerity policies and their economic and social effects: A comparative analysis of Greece and Portugal |
| TOPIC 2 | The era of globalization: Five readings from sociology | 2.1. Thesis of trade exchange 2.2. Modernizing thesis 2.3. Technological thesis 2.4. Thesis of capitalism 2.5. Thesis of the global risk society |
| TOPIC 3 | The city as a key actor in the era of precarity | 3.1. The neoliberal city: definition and characteristics 3.2. New urban expressions: gentrification and touristification |
| TOPIC 4 | The precarization of work in the era of globalization: forms and effects | 4.1. Definition of labor precarity 4.2. Factors contributing to labor precarity in the era of globalization 4.3. Effects of labor precarity on workers and society 4.4. Labor precarity and inequality in the era of globalization |
| TOPIC 5 | Resistance and alternatives to austerity and precarity | 5.1. Austerity and precarity in Latin America: experiences and perspectives 5.2. Austerity and precarity in Europe: experiences and perspectives |
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