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Faculty of Sociology
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Grao en Socioloxia
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  Economic and organisational sociology
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Topic 1. Foundations of economic sociology:
What do we mean when we talk of economic action? Do we behave as rational beings in the economic-monetary field or are we predictably irrational? What models of rationality does sociology contemplate? Why is it not possible to predict human behavior? 		1.1. Economic and organizational sociology in the context of general sociology
1.2. The social action model of economic sociology vs. the neoclassical economic model
1.3. The new economic sociology: the concept of embeddedness
1.4. Five key concepts to understand economic action: power, social networks, morals, values ??and culture
1.5. rationality vs. irrationality in monetary behavior: the role of emotions and fictitious expectations
Topic 2. The role of institutions in economic sociology:
Why are institutions important for understanding social and economic reality? What are social institutions and what are their components? 		2.1. The concept of social institution under debate: new and old institutionalism in economic sociology
2.2. Richard Scott's analytical model to analyze institutions: regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive systems. Habermas's concept of input and output legitimacy.
23. Institutions and organizations: Richard Scott's model (II) to understand the organization of institutions
2.4. Major Economic Institutions: Markets, Business, and Money
Topic 3. Markets as social structures:
What is the market and the market system? Why is the market system a social institution? Do markets have a social structure? Does the market function according to the model of perfect competition or are there asymmetric power relations? Does the market produce inequality or does it work through meritocratic mechanisms? What norms of behavior prevail in the market system? 		3.1. The market as a social institution: brief historical perspective
3.2. Markets and market systems: Characteristics of the operation of the market system. Coordination through the price system.
3.3. From the market economy to the market society: The culture and norms of the market system.
3.4. The ambivalences and limits of the market system: Moral attributions of the market system. The "inefficiencies" of the market system: social inequality and the environmental limit.
Topic 4. Money as a social institution.
Why is money a social institution? Why is money an impersonal debt? How does money manage to transport abstract value? Are cryptocurrencies a disruptive innovation? Does the form that money takes have effects on the real economy and on society? 		4.1. Origins of money: The false myth of barter and the historical reductionism of homo economicus. Chartalist theories.
4.2. What is money? Money functions. Money as debt
4.3. From the gold standard to cryptocurrencies: types of money, digitization and financial exclusion.
4.4. Monetary behavior: V. Zelitzer's money marking theory and R. Thaler's mental accounting theory.
Topic 5. Organizations and companies:
What is an organization and what are the most important organizational components of a company? What are the main organizational models and what effects do they have on employee attitudes and satisfaction? What are some of the main challenges of the different organizational models? 		5.1. Which is an organization. The business organization: technical-productive division; authority systems.
5.2. The bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic model.
5.3. Fordism and postfordism: the network approach and the paradigm of flexibility
5.4. Organizational challenges: individual goals and collective goals; the mismatch of means, organizational ends, and organizational legitimacy; the beginning of Peter's incompetence.
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