Economic Sociology

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course aims to understand how sociology accounts for economic phenomena by showing in particular that economic action is embedded in concrete and complex systems of social relations. Economic sociology in France: a school? (Karl Polanyi, Alain Caille, Jean-Louis Laville, Bernard Eme, Guy Roustant, Luc Boltanski...) The sociology of economic behavior (Max Weber, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Godelier, Pierre Bourdieu).