Università Roma Tre

The program is divided into the following parts:
- Origins and developments of contemporary economic sociology: this first part introduces the student to the knowledge of the origins of economic sociology, through a brief review of the classic authors, some more recent developments and the main differences between economic sociology and economic science.
- Studying the economies of past and present societies: the second part proposes an analysis of the assumptions underlying the so-called New Economic Sociology (starting from the works of Karl Polanyi and Mark Granovetter) useful for understanding the diversity of economies in different historical and cultural contexts, the ways in which economic relations are rooted in social contexts, and the roles of individual and collective actors, of institutions, power dynamics, trust, cultural and moral values.
- Themes and perspectives of investigation for the economies of the 21st century: proposes a path of in-depth analysis and elaboration of some themes relating to some fields of investigation of particular relevance for economic sociology.
- Social change and development: aims at the historical reconstruction of the different elaborations of the concept of social change by development economics, modernization theory, dependency theory, approaches to alternative development and new critical development paradigms .
- Development policies: this last part aims to delve into the most recent theoretical elaborations of the concept of development, analyzing their political and strategic implications in the context of international cooperation.
Scenarios, concepts and fields of investigation under investigation are:
- non-economic factors in the functioning of the economy,
- the sociological analysis of labor markets,
- welfare systems in the service economy,
- modernization, economic development and social change,
- socioeconomic systems,
- inequalities, poverty, exclusion,
- training systems and the labor market,
- “development” as a problem,
- the theory of dependency,
- sustainable development,
- alternatives to development.

Marino Regini (a cura di), La sociologia economica contemporanea, Editori Laterza, 2007.
Gianfranco Bottazzi, Sociologia dello sviluppo, Editori Laterza, 2009.