Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

1. Knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should know the most important theories of the labor market, as well as employment and unemployment patterns, changes affecting labor supply and demand in contemporary society.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to put labor market topics into a theoretical context and project empirical research on these topics.
3. Students will improve their capacity to develop their own points of view as well as critical capacity on the topics studied through active participation in group exercise and debates, as well as preparing both individual and group presentations.
4. Communications skills. Students will improve their capacity to communicate the knowledge learned through individual and group presentations on the topics studied and participating in collective debates.
5. Learning skills. Students should improve the capacity to keep up their studies on the topics of this course through the ability acquired to connect concepts, theories and phenomena This ability may be developed through the explicit presentation of these connection, tested through exercises on specific case studies. At the end of the course, students should be able to autonomously explore the topics of labor market through the consultation of specialized sources.

Programme

The program focuses on new segmentation processes in labor market addressing middle classes dynamics

Adopted texts

V. Zelizer, 2009, Vite Economiche, Il Mulino Bologna
S. Lucciarini, 2020, Sociologia Economica delle Classi Medie, Il Mulino Bologna

Bibliography

Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, and Valeria Pulignano. Abstract. Reconstructing Solidarity, Oxford

Prerequisites

Basic Knowledge of Economic Sociology' main concepts

Frequency modes

Mandatory

Exam modes

A written exam containing open questions

Exam reservation date start	Exam reservation date end	Exam date
02/01/2021	07/02/2021	08/02/2021
01/03/2021	10/03/2021	15/03/2021
15/05/2021	05/06/2021	07/06/2021
01/06/2021	25/06/2021	28/06/2021
15/06/2021	30/06/2021	12/07/2021
15/08/2021	30/08/2021	06/09/2021
15/10/2021	20/10/2021	21/10/2021
25/11/2021	28/11/2021	29/11/2021
15/12/2021	01/01/2022	10/01/2022