2 Technology and Social Change

Lecture

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Reading

Polanyi, K. (1944). The great transformation: The political and economic origins of our time. Farrar & Rinehart. Read Ch. 4: “Societies and Economic Systems” and Ch. 6: “The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities”. Presentation by Mariane A. M.

Polanyi, K. (1957). The economy as instituted process. In K. Polanyi, C. Arensberg, & H. Pearson (Eds.), Trade and market in the early empires (pp. 243–270). Free Press. Presentation by Alexandra A. N.

Granovetter, M. (1985). Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481–510. Presentation by Miguel C. V.

Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin Press. Read Ch. 1: “The Surge of Suffering” and Ch. 5: “The Four Foundational Harms.” Presentation by Fernando C. S.