SOC 3770 - [Money, Work and Social Life]

(SBA-AS) (CU-SBY)

Spring. Next offered: 2018-2019. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

J. Garip.

Through a diverse set of readings and other media, this course offers a multi-disciplinary account of how our economic life (money and work) is intertwined with our social life (networks and culture). Examining different sectors of the economy from corporations and finance to households, informal and illegal markets, we explore how in all areas of economic life people are creating, maintaining, symbolizing and transforming meaningful social relations. Economic life, from this perspective, is as social as religion, family, or education.