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Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar

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PPK Pszichológiai Intézet

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PSZM21-MO-INTK-105:2

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New Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Society: Current Forms of Sharing and Caring

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4

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COURSE DESCRIPTION (GENERAL DESCRIPTION) Course title: New challenges and opportunities in a changing society: Current forms of sharing and caring Course code: PSZM21-MO-INTK-105:2 Head of the course: Simonovits Borbála Aim of the course Aim of the course The  aim of the course is to provide an overview on the sharing (or collaborative) economy that have been commonly used in recent years to refer to new forms of work, business models and a proliferation of initiatives. Students will learn about the critical discussions of this new business model as well as will discuss the current discourse on the sharing economy and its social consequences Throughout the course we will develop a deeper understanding of the collaborative economy phenomenon in its various aspects, by studying its different forms (from caring to sharing), and by comparing local, regional, national and international initiatives. Learning outcome, competences knowledge: Acquaintance with the most important theoretical concepts and rich definitions of the sharing economy Familiarity with local, regional, national and international initiatives in the area of sharing economy. attitude: Commitment towards fairness and inclusivity Respecting human rights and human dignity skills: Ability to evaluate and analyse initiatives and platforms  by the above mentioned criteria Ability to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of the new era of sharing economy autonomy, responsibility: Students are able to apply the acquired knowledge on their own, in accordance with the ethical guidelines of psychology, but only for purposes corresponding to their level of competence. Tantárgy tartalma Topic of the course 1. What is the sharing economy? Concepts and definitions 2. The Role of Trust in the Sharing Economy 3. The working mechanism of Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: The Cases of Airbnb, Uber, and Ridesharing platforms 4. Mapping the main sectors of the sharing economy 5. Mobility and Transportation Sharing 6. Peer-to-peer Accommodation: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities 7. From Uberisation to Commoning: Experiences, Challenges, and Potential Pathways of the Sharing Economy in Food Supply Chains in Europe 8. Education, Information, and Data in the Era of Sharing 9. Sharing of Material Goods and Household Services 10. Solidarity and Care Economy During Times of Crises5 11. The State and Future Prospects of the Sharing Economy in Europe 12. Methodology of case studies 13. Presentation of case studies Learning activities, learning methods Case study (individual or group work:): in order to systematically analyse practices and initiatives of collaborative economies. In particular, we will design and analyse in-depth ethnographic studies of selected national and/or international sharing cases. Interactive presentations Written summary on the case study according to previously set criteria Evaluation of outcomes Learning requirements, mode of evaluation and criteria of evaluation: recuirements Present at class, be active in discussions, compile and present the case study. Mode of evaluation Presentation of the group work: 50 % Written summary: 50 % Criteria of evaluation: Adequate knowledge of the literature and the topics discussed in class Application of the conceptual and methodological knowledge for the case study Reading list Compulsory reading list       Belk, R. (2010). Sharing. Journal of Consumer Research, 36(5), 715-734. Belk, R. (2013). You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online. Journal of Business Research, 67(8), 1595-1600. Botsman, R. (2017) Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart. London: Portfolio Penguin. (selected chapters, TBD) Davies and Legg (2018): Fare sharing: Interrogating the nexus of ICT, urban food sharing and sustainability. Food, Culture and Society, 21 (2): 233-254. Edelman, B., Luca, M., and Svirsky, D. (2016). Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Harvard Business School. Ge, Y., Knittel, C., MacKenzie, D., and Zoepf, S. (2016). Racial and Gender Discrimination in Transportation Network Companies. National Bureau of Economic Research. Simonovits, B., Shvets, I., and Taylor, C. H. (2018). Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Hungarian Field Experiment. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. pp. 55-79. http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/254/0 Sundararajan, A. (2016). The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. MIT Press. (selected chapters, TBD) Ert, E., Fleischer, A., and Magen, N. (2016) Trust and reputation in the sharing economy; The role of personal photos in Airbnb. Tourism Management, 55, 62-73. Recommended reading list Arnould, E. J., and Rose, A. S. (2015). Mutuality: Critique and substitute for Belk's "sharing". Marketing Theory, 1-25. Beldad, A., Jong, M. D., and Steehouder, M. (2010). How shall I trust the faceless and the intangible? A literature review on the antecedents of online trust. Computers in Human Behavior, 857–869. Bertrand, M., and Duflo, E. (2016): Field Experiments on Discrimination. NBER Working papers 22014  http://www.nber.org/papers/w22014.pdf Codagnone, C., Biagi, F., and Abadie, F. (2016). The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the ‘Sharing Economy’. European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Cohen, M., and Sundararajan, A. (2015). Self-Regulation and Innovation in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy. University of Chicago Law Review Online, 82(1), 116-133. Dén-Nagy, I., and Király, G. (2014). How to Explain Couchsurfing's Succes? Hungarian Sociological Association, 24(4), 32-53. John, H. A. (2017). The Age of Sharing. USA, MA: Polity Press. Liu, C. (2012). A CouchSurfing Ethnography: Travelling and Connection in a Commodified World. Inquires Journal, 4(7), 1-3. Martin, C. J. (2016). The sharing economy: A pathway to sustainability or a nightmarish form of neoliberal capitalism? Ecological Economics, 121, 149-159. Mazzella, F., and Sundararajan, A. (2016). Entering the Trust Age. BlaBlaCar. Phelps, E. (1972). The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism. American Economic Review, 62, 659-661. Scholz, T. (2016). Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy. United Kingdom: Polity Press. Zervas, G., Proserpio, D., and Byers, J. (2016). The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry. Journal of Marketing Research, 1-53. Zrenner, A. (2015). The Ethics of Regulating the Sharing Economy. Retrieved 2017, from Duke Ethics: https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sharing-Economy-2015.pdf

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