General part.
Introduction about economic sociology. Capitalism and Technique. Society or community. The modern capitalistic economy. Adam Smith and Karl Marx: from use value to exchange value. Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Comte, Weber, Galbraith. Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. Foucault: biopolitics, capitalism and the homo oeconomicus. The money ‘philosophy’ (G. Simmel). Keynes. Economy, religion and capitalism (M. Weber). Capitalism as a religion (Benjamin). Technique as a religion (Tilgher and Demichelis). From Fordism and Taylorism to network and digital Taylorism. The heavy modernity and the liquid modernity (Z. Bauman). The Great Transformation (Polanyi). New Deal, Beveridge. The welfare state. Ordo-liberalism and neo-liberalism. Globalization and the crisis of 2008. Globalization and the new work organization. The consumption society. The mass society. Network economy and society. Time and economy. Economy, society, democracy or oligarchy and technocracy.

Monographic part. The critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Positivism and pragmatism. Techno-Capitalism. Critique of the tecno-capitalistic (ir)rationality. The society-factory. Economy vs ecology.