2024/2025 KAN-CPHIO3009U Economic Sociology of Markets and Innovation
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Economic Sociology of Markets and Innovation |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Start time of the course | Fourth Quarter |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
Max. participants | 50 |
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Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and
Philosophy, MSc
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Last updated on 24-07-2024 |
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To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
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Based on a mix of lectures and case study discussions, this course will introduce FLØK students to key concepts in contemporary economic sociology, including competition, entrepreneurship, innovation, markets, marketization, and value. The course will begin by introducing students to classical sociological approaches to economic life, mainly through thinkers like Weber, Simmel, Polanyi, and Schumpeter. In the second part of the course, students will be introduced to some of the more recent schools of thought in economic sociology, especially those that focus on how markets get shaped through practices of valuation (e.g., Boltanski & Thevenot). Discussions of other more recent schools of thought in economic sociology will also include Bourdieu, Callon and Foucault. All lectures will be followed up by short case studies which introduce a market-situation which will test students’ ability to apply and critique the methods and theoretical principles that were introduced during the lecture. A key aim of the course is to enable students to pursue research and interpret the phenomena of markets and innovation by drawing on a wide range of social theorists, but also to understand the limitations of, for example, ‘purely’ Marxist, Weberian or Schumpeterian analyses of market societies. • Students will receive a grounding in classical approaches to economic sociology as well as insights into more contemporary schools of thought in economic sociology • Students will learn how economists of the neoclassical tradition (‘mainstream’) and, by contrast, how sociologists study and theorize market-related phenomena • Students will learn how economists of the neoclassical tradition (‘mainstream’) and, by contrast, how sociologists study and theorize market-related phenomena • Students will learn how recent approaches in economic sociology provide a novel understanding of how market participants create, enact, order and discount value • Students will engage with Schumpeterian and more recent, non-Schumpeterian approaches to understanding entrepreneurship, innovation and competition in the market
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5 weeks; 2 meetings per week of 3x45mins. The fist part of the meeting is usually devoted to a lecture, with the second part being a case discussion and/or group work. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will receive feedback as part of ongoing teaching and are encouraged to make use of the office hours. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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