The first module will address the following topics:
- epistemological foundations of the discipline: the economic paradigm and the paradigm of economic sociology
- capitalism and Western civilization (Marx and Weber)
- the social consequences of capitalism (Durkeim and Veblen)
- the Great Depression and the decline of liberal capitalism (Polanyi and Schumpeter)
- the legacy of the classic and the new boundaries between economics and sociology
- The characters of Western capitalism
- The social consequences of capitalism
- The Great Depression and the decline of liberal capitalism
- The welfare state
- The crisis of Fordism and welfare
- Flexible production models
- Industrial districts and the underground economy
- Globalization and varieties of capitalism
The new economic sociology
The network theory
The social capital
The new institutionalism
Regulating the economy and organized crime (mafia and entrepreneurship,the social networks of mafia, legal and illegal economy)
C. Trigilia, 2002, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, vol. I, pp. 13- 41; 81-100; 122-142; 184-313; vol. II (edizione 2009), pp.11-58.
C. Trigilia, 2009, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, vol.II, pp. 119-156; 181-231; 291-336.
M. Ferrera, edizione 2012, L’analisi delle politiche sociali e del welfare state, in M. Ferrera, Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 11-54.
C. Trigilia, 2009, Sociologia economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, vol. II, pp. 235-288;
R. Palidda, 2016, Imprenditori ed estorsioni: vittime o collusi? in D. Arcidiacono, M. Avola, R. Palidda, Mafia, estorsioni e regolazione dell’economia nell’altra Sicilia, F. Angeli, Milano, pp.142-226