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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Economics and Business |
| Grao en Administración e Dirección de Empresas |
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| Sociology |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Sociology | Code | 611G02003 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Topic 1. The sociological approach to economic activity Main theories of economic sociology. | Sociology and economics: encounters and divergences. |
| Topic 2. Sociology and Market: the market as a social institution. Markets and market systems | The ambivalence and the limits of the market Sociology and Market: the market as a social institution. Markets and market systems The ambivalence and the limits of the market. |
| Topic 3. the method and techniques of research in Sociology | The need for an interdisciplinary approach Main quantitative and qualitative techniques. Analysis of attitudes and economic motivations |
| Topic 4. Sociology of Labor Markets | Fundamental concepts: Activity, employment and unemployment The transformations of work: Labor Society or Unemployment Society? The dualization and segmentation of labor markets Women and employment Youth and employment |
| Topic 5. Sociology of the Company The capitalist company. | Evolution and perspectives Fordism, post-Fordism and a networked company. Sociology and human resources management |
| Topic 6. Sociology of consumption Sociology of consumption. | The formation of the need: Consumption, preferences and lifestyles Forms of consumption and advertising. |
| Topic 7. Relations between State and Market: the Welfare State Models, evolution and perspectives. | Crisis and reformulation of the Welfare State |
| Topic 8. Back to globalization: new economy and old debates | Productive decentralization and changes in labor relations International Migrations Financial capital from a sociological perspective |
| Topic 9. Contemporary socio-economic issues | Society and environment New forms of exclusion and social inequality The BRIC'S: Emerging Capitalisms and Sociology New movements of citizen participation and economic crisis. |
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