SOC 6380 - Readings in Economic Sociology

Spring. 4 credits.

P. Sanyal.

The course examines different sectors of the economy of formal sectors, like firms, corporations & consumers markets, to the informal sector, including illegal markets. It looks at non-traditional markets & household economies. The main goal of the course it to demonstrate and explain how the ways in which markets and economies function in real life transsend narrow economic principles and assumptions and are imbued with cultural meaning and equally subject to sociological forces.