301050 "The Great Transformation": Reading Karl Polanyi (S) (SoSe 2024)

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This class focuses on one of the most influential classics of economic sociology: „The Great Transformation“ by Karl Polanyi. In his seminal book he analyses the political, cultural and social conflicts occurring with the emergence of capitalism, the market economy and the nation state in England at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century. His theoretical interest lies on how capitalism has transformed the basic relationship between the market and the society, the economic and the social, towards an ongoing disembeddedness of the market from society and a dominance of the market over the social. Concepts such as commodification and de-commodification, labour as a fictitious commodity, embeddedness and disembeddedness which are at the center of the new economic sociology will be discussed in this course.

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Participants must have basic knowledge in the area of the sociology of work (e.g. having completed an introductory course in 'sociology of work' or having read an introductory book). Seminar language English.

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Polanyi, Karl. 1957. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press.

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