New Horizons for Learning and Teaching Economic Sociology in the Modern Higher Education: Theoretical Aspects

Abstract

The article is devoted to contemporary issues of learning and teaching economic sociology in higher education. The article draws attention to the theoretical and methodological problems of economic sociology. The author analyzes the current global social issues of economic development. The article outlines the prospects of development of teaching economic sociology. These prospects are related to the inclusion in the structure of the teaching and learning economic sociology of new independent topics. There are the topics that reflect contemporary social aspects of global economic problems. There are the problems of transformation of labor or organizational culture, development and global spread of the environmental ethics, the development of the civil society institutions, creation of lifelong learning society. New horizons of learning and teaching economic sociology appear in theoretical and educational deperiferization of these research topics. Modern economic sociology can continue its development only on the basis of transformation of the traditional theoretical discourse toward problem-oriented researches on global changes in different societies.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s5p24