Este artigo explora a especificidade conceptual da sociologia do comportamento económico, enquanto alternativa à orientação dominante da sociologia económica. Ancorada na tradição da Teoria Social clássica, que recupera e atualiza, a sociologia do comportamento económico aborda...

Together with the emphasis on the technical skills acquisition, higher education institutions have been making an effort on developing and updating undergraduate transferable competences in order to diminish the gap between academic training and working world entrance. In other words, to...

The paper provides a comparative reading of two influential works of Veblen and Bourdieu, on cultural consumption. Approaches to consumers’ taste and preferences are predominantly essentialist. However, Veblen and Bourdieu focused on the relationship between consumption and social divisions....