Economic Sociology
Students who successfully complete the course will show a solid knowledge of the main assumptions and theoretical and research approaches within the discipline, as well as a discussion on some contents and specific objects. In particular, she/he should develop an adequate knowledge in terms of:
- Main theoretical assumptions in the study of the economic and ecological processes in the sociological field
- Elements of comparison between economics and sociology in the study of the economy
- Economy and society: because the economic action is embedded in the social and natural contexts and processes; role of institutional processes in the primitive, archaic and modern economies
- Main research fields in economic sociology (eg. Work, production, organizational processes, economic systems and local development and community welfare systems capitalism) and insights on some specific objects
- Local development between economy, ecology and society

Sociology of development
Historical and critical review of the theories of development and their application in the contemporary Europe and World