- Docente: Roberto Rizza
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/09
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Roberto Rizza (Modulo 1) Federica Santangelo (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sociology (cod. 8495)
Learning outcomes
Students should acquire capacities to interpret the current transformations of economy, work and employment, and of welfare and labour market policies in a comparative perspective.
Course contents
The course contents will be divided in two parts:
First part (30 hours):
- Modern market economies and varieties of capitalistic regimes: a comparative analysis of the influence of cultural, social and political dimensions
The following concepts will be addressed:
- two definitions of economy
- economic sociology: the economy as an instituted process, the role of institutions in the economy and the concept of embeddedness
- The regulation of the economy: reciprocity, redistribution and exchange
- Varieties of capitalism: Northern Europe, Continental Europe, Anglo-Saxon model and Mediterranean model of capitalism.
Second part (30 hours):
Labour market and the insitutional regulation: vocational education and training; welfare regimes
The following concepts and phenomena will be addressed:
- labour market structure
- women and the labour market
- unemployment and unemployment models in a comparative perspective
- labour market and the service economy
- labour market flexibility and insecure employment
- work and migrations
Readings/Bibliography
Burroni L. (2016), Capitalismi a confronto. Istituzioni e regolazione dell'economia nei paesi europei, Bologna, Il Mulino
Reyneri E. (2017), Introduzione alla sociologia del mercato del lavoro, Bologna, Il Mulino
Teaching methods
The course is divided in different parts: lectures will be alternated with group discussions and case studies. Presentations will be prepared by students
Assessment methods
Two written examinations for students who attend classes, an oral examination for other students
Teaching tools
Movies, essays, documentaries, group discussions.
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Rizza
See the website of Federica Santangelo