formerly SPS/09 Sociology of economic and labor processes

Study of the relationship between society and the economy and the complex of formal and informal activities of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services. Study of the functioning and transformations of socio-economic and labor systems, and their inequalities; the organizations and professions that make up these systems; systems of social protection, industrial relations; processes of innovation and development in time and space, as well as modes of regulation. The field, as a whole, is divided into various applied specializations ranging from economic and labor sociology, industrial relations, the study of processes related to innovation, territorial development, formal and informal organizations, professions, welfare systems in their interaction with the production system, to the social impact of the economy and the transformations due to the production and distribution of wealth also in terms of inequalities.