Call for Applications

Call for Applications
Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG, Cologne
Recent Advances in Economic Sociology
17–19 May 2016 | Sciences Po, Paris
(Room tbd)
Instructors
Jens Beckert, Pierre François, and Olivier Godechot
From May 17–19, 2016, a three-day PhD seminar on the “Recent Advances in Economic
Sociology” will be held at Sciences Po in Paris. Taught in English by Professors Jens
Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne), Pierre François (Sciences Po, Paris, and CSO), and Olivier Godechot (Sciences Po, Paris, and MaxPo), the
seminar is open to graduate students currently enrolled in a PhD program at a French or
German university. Preference is given to students from Sciences Po and the MPIfG.
Participating students must have prior knowledge in economic sociology or adjacent
fields (such as economic history, political economy, or economic anthropology).
The seminar explores the field of economic sociology with a special focus on the most
recent theoretical and empirical developments. It examines key problems in the sociological investigation of the economy and offers insights into the most recent conceptual
and empirical work conducted in the field. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the
PhD projects of some of the seminar participants.
Students are expected to complete the required reading in advance (about 10 research
articles or book chapters and 6 summaries of PhD theses in progress). The seminar includes presentations by the three organizing professors and invited guest speakers (Neil
Fligstein, Heather Haveman, François Denord). The focus is on classroom discussions.
Students more advanced in their PhD project will have an opportunity to present their
research.
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Call for Applications | PhD Seminar Recent Advances in Economic Sociology
Workshop 17–19 May 2016, Paris
A maximum of 20 students will be admitted to the seminar. A detailed syllabus will be
provided at a later stage. Students who successfully complete the course will receive 3
ECTS credits.
Students must cover their transportation and food expenses. A hotel room in Paris will
be provided for three days at the expense of the organizing institutions. No specific fees
for the course will be charged. Hotel reservations will be made through the organizers.
If you would like to apply for the seminar, please submit a one-page motivation letter, a
CV of not more than two pages, and a one-page description of your PhD project by no
later than March 1, 2016. Send your application as one file in an email attachment to:
[email protected].
Schedule
Tuesday, May 17
Wednesday, May 18
9:00–10:30
Session 1
Introduction
How Economic Sociology Got
Involved in “Macro” Topics:
The Case of Financialization
Session 4
Session 7
Guest speaker: François Denord Organization and Markets:
Bourdieu and Economic
The Role of the Firm
Sociology: A “Distinctive”
Approach?
10:30–11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00–13:00
Session 2 Presentation of PhD
projects
Session 5
Presentation of PhD projects
Session 8
Presentation of PhD projects
13:00–14:00
Lunch break
Lunch break
Lunch break
14:00–15:30
Session 3
Guest Speaker:
Heather Haveman
The Price of Marijuana:
Legal Institutions,
Uncertainty, and Risk in New
and Contentious Markets
Session 6
Expectations in the Economy
Session 9
Guest speaker: Neil Fligstein
Re-imagining Economic
Sociology
19:30–22:00
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Joint dinner
Thursday, May 19
Concluding discussion
Call for Applications | PhD Seminar Recent Advances in Economic Sociology
Workshop 17–19 May 2016, Paris
Readings
Session 1
Krippner, Greta R. 2005. “The Financialization of the American Economy.” SocioEconomic Review 3(2):173–208.
Godechot, Olivier. 2015. Financialization Is Marketization! A tudy on the Respective Impact of Various Dimensions of Financialization on the Increase in Global Inequality. MaxPo Discussion Paper 15/3. Paris: MaxPo (forthcoming in Sociological Science).
Session 3
Dioun, Cyrus and Heather Haveman. 2016. The Price of Marijuana: Legal Institutions,
Uncertainty, and Risk in New and Contentious Markets.
www.heatherhaveman.net/working-papers.html
Session 4
Swedberg, Richard. 2011. “The Economic Sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu.” Cultural Sociology 5(1):67–82.
Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman, Anton Grau Larsen, and Martin D. Munk. 2012. “A
Very Economic Elite: The Case of the Danish Top CEOs.” Sociology 47(6):1051–71.
Session 6
Holmes, Douglas R. 2009. “Economy of Words.” Cultural Anthropology 24(3):381–419.
Lente, Harro van and Arie Rip. 1998. “Expectations in Technological Developments: An
Example of Prospective Structures to Be Filled in by Agency.” In Getting New Technologies Together. Studies in Making Sociotechnical Order, edited by Cornelis Disco and Barend van der Meulen, 203–29. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Session 7
Davis, Gerald F. and Christopher Marquis. 2005. “Prospect for Organization Theory in
the Early Twenty-first Century: Institutional Fields and Mechanisms.” Organization Science 16(4):332–43.
Roy, William G. 1997. “The Corporation as Public and Private Enterprise.” Chapter 3 in
Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America, by William G.
Roy, 41–77. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Session 9
Fligstein, Neil. 2015. “What Kind of Re-Imagining Does Economic Sociology Need?” In
Re-imagining Economic Sociology, edited by Patrick Aspers and Nigel Dodd, 301–16. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Readings for sessions two, five and eight will be announced later.
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Call for Applications | PhD Seminar Recent Advances in Economic Sociology
Workshop 17–19 May 2016, Paris
Sciences Po
27, rue Saint Guillaume | 75337 Paris Cedex 07
www.sciencespo.fr
Phone +33 (0)1 45 49 50 50
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Köln
www.mpifg.de | [email protected]
Phone +49 221 2767-0
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