SOC 100C: Contemporary Society
TuTr 2-3:50, Asbury Hall 301
FALL 2006
Professor Thomas Hall
Office: 106 Asbury, x4519, email: thall@depauw.edu
OFFICE HOURS: TuTr 1-1:50; W 11-12; & by
appt
Study Guide for Second Midterm
***Final Study
Guide***
Tuesday, November 14
Last Updated 11-12-06 [fixing
minor typos]
This test will cover all the material from the first midtem: Sanderson & Alderson Chs. 5, 6. 7, 9 through page 202. Also Phyllis Deane, Ch 1; Marx on the IR; Market-Class-World-System; Silk Road Talk; and Silk Road Talk Slides, all on Blackboard. Also on Blackboard is Mongol World-System, recommended only, but helpful to review many of these.
TERMS TO KNOW
broadening
bureaucracy
Cheng Ho (Zheng He)
contest-mobility educational system|
core
country
credential inflation
crisis of feudalism
crisis of overproduction
debt peonage
deepening
demographic transition
dependency theory
development of underdevelopment
exchange mobility
feudalism
first world
fourth world
long sixteenth century
mode of accumulation
mode of production
modernization theory
mould board plow
nation
nation-state
oligopoly
patriarchy
periphery
second world
semiperiphery
silk road
sponsored-mobility educational system
state
structural mobility
third world
three field system
TNC/MNC
two field system
world-economy
world-empire
world-system
world-system theory or world-system analysis
Thought questions and potential essay questions:
1. What are the roles of international trade in the origins of the industrial revolution? How do the various theories differ in their analyses of international trade?
2. Why is it important to study all of Afroeurasia in trying to understand the origins of the industrial revolution?
3. List and summarize the major theories of the industrial revolution. How are they the same? How are they different?
4. Why is it important to study the industrial revolution? What do we learn about today's society from the study of the industrial revolution?
5. Describe the demographic transition briefly. Why is it important in the industrial revolution? Why does it remain an important topic in 2006?
6. Describe the contemporary world-system. Describe how a world-system approach gives additional insight into social change in:
7. Summarize Karl Marx's explanation of industrial society. How strongly does the evidence support, or contradict, each component of Marx's theory? What kinds of evidence would be necessary to CLEARLY support or contradict Marx's theory?
8. Summarize Phyllis Deane's theory of the industrial revolution. What does her account add that is not covered by Lenski, the Market-Class theory, or Karl Marx?
9. Which class or group was most important in fostering the industrial revolution? What was its role?
10. Professor Lenski claims that the appearance of industrial societies marks the first reversal of the more-or-less steady trend through socio-cultural evolution toward increasing inequality within societies. Professor Hall claims rather that inequality in fact INCREASES with the appearance of industrial societies. How can it be that both positions, as presented here, are correct?
11. What do we learn about the industrial revolution by comparing the conditions in England just before the industrial revolution to those in China? Is it true that China was backward compared to England in 1400? What do conditions in China have to do with the industrial revolution and the rise of the West?
12. What does the phrase, "the development of underdevelopment" mean? What does this have to do with the origins of the industrial revolution? What does it have to do with the continuing causes of the industrial revolution?
13. Explain how Europe, describd as, "the least economically advanced and most politically disorganized agrarian era in 1400," came to dominate the world in a few centuries.
14. Describe feudalism. What is its role in the industrial revolution?
15. In what ways did the Mongol conquest shape the coming of the industrial revolution?
16. How does using the world-system account of the social change alter the other explanations of the Industrial Revolution?
17. Why is it important and useful to examine competing theories of the industrial revolution?
18. Where [on a world map, approximately] are the following:
20. Compare and contrast pre-industrialization Europe and China in terms of social structure. How did these differences shape the coming of the industrial revolution?
21. Why is still important to examine what Karl Marx said about industrial societies, even though communism has collapsed?
22. Compare and contrast how modernization theory, dependency theory and world-system theory explain differences in levels of development.
23. What additional insights to the debates among modernization theory, dependency theory and world-system theory about differences in development does Phyllis Deane's analysis of the first industrial revolution add?
24. Why do several scholars argue that the industrial revolution is not over?
25. What are the consequences of the demographic transition for individual lives of women?
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