SOC20002 - Economy, Ecology, and Social Life: Local and Global Perspectives (2018)

Not currently available in 2018

Provides students with a broad understanding of economic activity as a product of complex interactive social forces and social relationships, through which human agents structure socio-economic conduct among social actors. Encourages students to adopt a critical and exploratory approach to understanding the historical, structural, and ecological contexts in which social actors produce, reproduce and change social life.

Introduction:   Economy, Ecology & Social Life
Topic 1:          Key concepts and approaches to the “Economic”
Topic 2:          Key concepts in “Political Economy”
Topic 3:          Society & Markets: Values, Prices and Competition
Topic 4:          Economic Growth, Economic Crises & Ecology
Topic 5:          Economic Systems & Social Inequality: Class, Income and Wealth
Topic 6:          State, Economy & Social Policy
Topic 7:          Global Corporations—Local Trade & Risks
Topic 8:          Work, Consumption and Quality of Life
Topic 9:          The Environment & Sustainability: Limits to Growth?
Topic 10:        Community, Social Movements and Democracy
Conclusion:    The Future of Market Society.

Learning outcomes

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