SOC 323: SOCIAL CHANGE
MW 2:20-3:50 W AS 203
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
FALL 2008
Professor Thomas Hall
Office:  106 Asbury Hall, x4519, email:  thall
OFFICE HOURS:  MW 1-2, 4-4:30, & by appt.
RESERVE READINGS
Updated 10/27/2008

The following items will be on reserve in Roy O. West Library.  Internet items are available on line, URLs provided.

TEXTS:
Bodley, John H. 2002.  Power of Scale: A Global History Approach. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe.  D208 .B58 2003

Chew, Sing C. 2001. World Ecological Degradation:  Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation 3000 B.C. - A. D. 2000. Walnut Creek, CA:  Altamira Press. SD418 .C54 2001

Huber, Joan. 2007. On the Origins of Gender Inequality. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. HQ1075 .H83 2007

Ristvet, Lauren. 2007. In the Beginning: World History from Human Evolution to the First States. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Rivoli, Pietra. 2005. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. HD9969.S6 R58 2005

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham, NC:  Duke University Press. HN13 .W35 2004

Recommended Books to be used for reaction papers and Reading Reports are:
Champagne, Duane. 2007. Social Change and Cultural Continuity Among Native Nations. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. E98.S67 C43 2007

Chew, Sing C. 2007. The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. GE149 .C54 2007

Diamond, Jared. 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.. New York: Viking. HN13 .D5 2005

INTERNET RESERVES:
Carlson, Jon D.  2001.  Broadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance.  Journal of World-Systems Research 7:2(Fall):225-263 [E-Journal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
 This article reviews the expansion of world-systems, examining the concept of incorporation and compares it with various International Relations explanations of expansion.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1999. "Globalization:A World-Systems Perspective."  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):156-185 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]. 
This article gives an world-systems view of globalization.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Thomas D. Hall. 1997. "The Europe-Centered System." Pp. 187-199 [Ch. 9] in Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Dunaway, Wilma A.  2001. “The Double Register of History:  Situation the Forgotten Woman and Her Household in Capitalist Commodity Chains.”  Journal of World-System Research 7:1(Spring):2-31 [E-Journal: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article critiques world-system theory for insufficient attention to gender, BUT ALSO shows how to examine gender issues. 

Hall, Thomas D.  2001.  "Chiefdoms, States, Cycling, and World-Systems Evolution: A Review Essay." Journal of World-Systems Research 7:1(Spring):91-100 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
Summarizes the cycling issue among chiefdoms.

Hall, Thomas D. and Kimberly Peyser. 2005. "Review of  Power of Scale: A Global History Approach by John H. Bodley." Journal of World-Systems Research 11:1(July, 2005):138-141.[ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].

Manning, Susan, ed.  1999.  "Introduction [To special issue on Globalization]."  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):137-141 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]  [issue 137-461].
Just what it says, the entire issue discusses globalization.  The Chase-Dunn, Moghadam, and Sklair articles are especially good, and are in this list.

Moghadam, Valentine M. 1999.  "Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s Mobilization." Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):367-388 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php] 
Another from the special issue, with emphasis on gender.

Sanderson, Stephen K. 1999."The Capitalist Revolution and the Beginnings of the Modern World." Pp. 134-180 [Ch. 5] in Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development, expanded edition, Stephen K. Sanderson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Sklair, Leslie.  1999.   “Competing Conceptions of Globalization.”  Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer): 141-159 [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]
Sklair's position. Another from the special issue.Sklair,

Turchin, Peter, Jonathan M. Adams, and Thomas D. 2006. “East-West Orientation of Historical Empires and Modern States.” Journal of World-Systems Research.12:2(December):218-229. [ejournal http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]

RESERVES ON MOODLE:
Böröcz, József. 2005. "Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment." Economic and Political Weekly February 26:886-892.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer.  2000.   "Trade Globalization Since 1795:  Waves of Integration in the World-System."  American Sociological Review 65:1(February): 77-95.
This article gives a different view of globalization, and presents data showing that it began in the 19th century at least.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Thomas D. Hall. 1997. "The Europe-Centered System." Pp. 187-199 in Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas. D. Hall. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Chew, Sing C. 2006. “Dark Ages.”  Pp. 163-202 in Globalization and Global History edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson. London: Routledge.

Dunaway, Wilma A. 2003. "Has Terrorism Changed the World-System Forever?  Pp. 3-13 in Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System:  Vol. I:  Crises and Resistance in the 21st World-System, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway. Westport, CT: Praeger.
A very different view on 9-11.

Hall, Thomas D. 1998. "The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes: Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World." International Political Science Review 19:3(July):251-267.
a way to examine ethnicity in global-historical perspective

Hall, Thomas D. 2002. "World-Systems Analysis and Globalization:  Directions for the Twenty-First Century."  Pp. 81-122 in Theoretical Directions in Political Sociolology for the 21st Century, Vol. 11, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, Lisa K. Waldner. Oxford:  Elsevier Science Ltd. [For Soc 323, Social Change].
A recent overview of world-system theory.

Hall, Thomas D. and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2006. “Global Social Change in the Long Run.” Pp.33-58 in Global Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore Babones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hall, Thomas D. 2006. [Re] Periphalization, [Re]Incorporation, Frontiers, and Nonstate Societies: Continuities and Discontinuities in Globalization Processes. Pp. 96-113 in Globalization and Global History edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson. London: Routledge.

La Lone, Darrell and Thomas D. Hall. 2008. "The Revolution in Evolution: Evolution for Everyone: A Review Essay." Evolution and Sociology Newsletter 5:1(Spring): 8 –11.

Podobnik, Bruce. 2005. “Resistance to Globalization: Cycles and Trends in the Globalization Protest Movement.” Pp. 51 – 68 in Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer. Leiden: Brill. HM881 .G558 2005

RESERVES IN ROY O:
Boswell, Terry and Christopher Chase-Dunn.  2000.  The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism:  Toward Global Democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner.  HC59.15 .B67 2000

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer.  2000.   "Trade Globalization Since 1795:  Waves of Integration in the World-System."  American Sociological Review 65:1(February): 77-95.
This article gives a different view of globalization, and presents data showing that it began in the 19th century at least. On Moodle

Chirot, Daniel.1986.  Social Change in the Modern Era.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich.

Hall, Thomas D.  2002.  "World-Systems Analysis and Globalization:  Directions for the Twenty-First Century."  Pp. 81-122 in Theoretical Directions in Political Sociolology for the 21st Century, Vol. 11, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, Lisa K. Waldner.  Oxford:  Elsevier Science Ltd.
A more recent overview of world-system theory. ON MOODLE

La Lone, Darrell and Thomas D. Hall. 2008. "The Revolution in Evolution: Evolution for Everyone: A Review Essay." Evolution and Sociology Newsletter 5:1(Spring): 8 –11.
A review of books on recent evolutionary biology developments, including Huber's book. On Moodle.

Nolan, Patrick and Gerhard Lenski.  1999.  Human Societies:  An Introduction to Macrosociology, 8th ed.  New York:  McGraw Hill.

Sanderson, Stephen K.  1999.  Social Transformations:  A General Theory of Historical Development, expanded edition.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield.    GN360 .S2652 1999

Sanderson, Stephen K. and Arthur S. Alderson. 2005. World Societies: the Evolution of Human Social Life. Boston: Pearson. HM490 .S26 2005

Wagar, W. Warren. 1999. A Short History of the Future, third ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. CB161 .W24 1999

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