699J: Sociology Globalization Realities Spring, 2006, Monday, 3:30-6:15pm 2112 Art/Sociology Office Hours, Monday 2-3 and by appointment This course is designed to be a graduate level introduction to the study of the wide range of topics and issues included under the heading of globalization. To make sure everyone has a handle on the basics, we will spend the first month reading, discussing and critiquing a leading text on globalization. The bulk of the course is devoted to reading 34 wide-ranging original essays that have been written for my forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Each of the authors of those essays has been asked to provide approximately five key readings related to the topic of his/her essay. You will be provided with that list in a few weeks and it will be the basis for class readings in the last three weeks of the class. In addition, it should provide the base for your choice of an area/areas for your term paper. That paper should be a significant piece of research- library, data archives, and the likethat ideally relates to an area of interest to you (thesis or dissertation topic, etc.). Your grade in the course will be based, to a very large degree, on the quality of that paper. I would like to have a paragraph by February 20th giving me a sense of your proposed paper. The final paper is due no later than May 12th. Readings Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005. George Ritzer, The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming, 2007. Additional selected readings. Assignments 1/30-Introduction 2/6-Scholte, 1-154. 2/13-Scholte, 156-275 2-20-Scholte, 278-425. 2/27-Ritzer, Chs. 1-3 Introduction to the Volume, Introduction to Part I (George Ritzer) 1-Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the Academy and Beyond (Anthony
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McGrew) 2-The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization: `HoneyI Think the World is Flat (Robert J. Antonio) 3-Globalization: The Major Players (George M. Thomas) 3/6- Ritzer, Chs. 4-7 4-Globalization Today (John Boli and Velina Petrova) 5-Theories of Globalization (William I. Robinson) 6-Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues (Salvatore Babones) 7-Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the 21st Century (Ulrich Beck) 3/13- Ritzer, Chs. 8-13 Introduction to Part II 8-The End of Globalization? The Implications of Migration for State, Society and Economy (Subrahjit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi) 9-Globalization and the Agrarian World (Philip McMichael) 10-Globalization and the Environment (Steve Yearly) 11-Cities and Globalization (Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma) 12-The Sociology of Global Organizations (Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter) 13-Economic Globalization: Corporations (Peter Dicken) 3/20-Spring Break. 3/27-Ritzer, Chs. 14-19 14-Outsourcing: and Globalization Beyond (George Ritzer and Craig Lair) 15-Globalization and Consumer Culture (Douglas J. Goodman) 16-Cultural Globalization (John Tomlinson) 17-Globalization and Ideology (Manfred B. Steger) 18-Media and Globalization (Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce) 19-Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case of War (Howard Tumber and Frank Webster) 4/3-Ritzer, Chs. 20-26 20-Political Globalization (Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford) 21-Globalisation and Public Policy (Tim Blackman) 22-Religion and Globalization (Peter Beyer) 23-Globalization and Higher Education (Peter Manicas) 24-Sport and Globalization (David Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger) 25-The Fate of the Local (Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr.) 26-Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities (Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach)
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4/10- No Class 4/17 Ritzer, Chs. 27-34 Introduction to Part III 27-Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends (Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling) 28-(Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Moran) 29-Globalization of Corruption (Carolyn Warner) 30-Globalization and Sexuality (Kathryn Farr) 31-War in the Era of Economic Globalization (Gerald Schneider) 32-Globalization and International Terrorism (Gus Martin) 33-Resisting Globalization (Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner) 34-The Futures of Globalization (Bryan S. Turner) 4/24- Therborn, G. (2000) Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects, Normative Governance, International Sociology, 15:2, 151179. Robinson, W. 2001 Social theory and globalization: the rise of the transnational state. Theory and Society 30: 157-200. Meyer, John W., John Boli, George M. Thomas...