Anúncio do seminário "Socio-economic systems analysis"

 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

PPGS - Programa de Pós--Graduação em Sociologia da UFS

2019/I

The analysis of alternatives lies at the heart of socio-economic systems analysis. It tries to widen the scope beyond technical and economic feasibility and includes the analysis of social acceptance and risk perception and the degrees of acceptance and rejection of existing institutions and reform projects.

Socio-economic systems analysis thrives to go beyond the statistical quantification or qualitative assessments to include the search for the “systems-character” or “principle of order” of the institution under review.

In the seminar, we will study the techniques of socio-economic systems analysis and apply our finding to healthcare (medicine), pension systems, and education. We will study voting systems (democratic method and sortition) and the market competition as procedures to organize socio-economic institutions.

The seminar language will be English. The requirement to pass is active participation and the elaboration of a research paper (in English or Portuguese). 

Prof. Dr. A. P. Mueller

e-mail: antonymueller@gmx.com

Basic Literature

·  
Beckert, Jens and Wolfgang Streeck. 2008. “Economic Sociology and Political Economy: A Programmatic Perspective.” MPIfG Working Paper 08/4. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

·  Convert, Bernard  and  Johan Heilbron. 2007. “Where Did the New Economic Sociology Come From?”  Theory and Society 36(1): 31-54.

·  Dobbin, Frank. 2004. “The Sociological View of the Economy.” Pp. 1-46 in The New Economic Sociology: A Reader, edited by Frank Dobbin. Princeton University Press.

·  Granovetter, Mark. 2002. “A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology“. Pp. 35-59 inThe New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, edited by Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England and Marshall Meyer. Russell Sage Foundation.

·  Guillen, Mauro, Randall Collins, Paula England and Marshall Meyer. 2002. “The Revival of Economic Sociology.” Pp. 1-32 in The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, edited by Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England and Marshall Meyer. Russell Sage Foundation.

·  Smelser, Neil J. and Richard Swedberg. 2005. “Introducing Economic Sociology.” Pp. 3-25 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil J. Smelser & Richard Swedberg. Princeton University Press.

·  Swedberg, Richard. 1991. “Major Traditions of Economic Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 17: 251-276.

·  Swedberg, Richard. 2003. “The Classics in Economic Sociology.” Pp. 1-31 in Principles of Economic Sociology. Princeton University Press.

·  Talmud, Ilan. 2013. “Economic sociology.” Sociopedia.isa