Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Sociology |
Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria |
Subjects |
Austerity and precarity in the age of globalization |
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Identifying Data | 2024/25 | |||||||||||||
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 | Sub-topic |
TOPIC 1 | Introduction to Austerity | 1.1. Historical and Political Context of Austerity 1.2. The Keynesian Era (1950-1973) 1.3. The Neoliberal Turn (1973-2008) 1.4. 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 expressions of urban capitalism: gentrification and touristification |
TOPIC 4 | The precarization of work in the era of globalization: forms and effects | 4.1. Factors contributing to labor precarity 4.2. Effects of labor precarity 4.3. Models of labor precarity and inequality |
TOPIC 5 | Resistance and alternatives to austerity and precarity | 5.1. Resistances and alternatives from the Global South: experiences and perspectives 5.2. Resistances and alternatives from the Global North: experiences and perspectives |
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