SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM

SOC 983

Presentation and discussion of on-going research in the area of comparative political economy and economic sociology.

C&ESOC/SOC 652

Sociological perspectives on the organization of the firm, financial markets, and work, intermediate associations (unions, ethnic economies), the state, and the international economy. Contrast between neoclassical, traditional institutionalist, post-fordist, and neo-fordist perspectives on the nature and evolution of these institutions.

HISTORY 329

Survey of political, social, and economic change in the history of American capitalism from the late colonial period to the near-present.

SOC 919

Explores the frontiers of research in economic sociology, drawing on recently published major work and on ongoing research.

POLISCI 840

Survey of field of comparative political economy and in-depth study of political economy of democratic and non-democratic capitalist systems. Key themes include: business and labor relations, globalization and its impact on domestic political economies, rise of emergent powers.