SOC 410: Senior Seminar in Sociology:
Social Problems in Global-Historical Perspective
WED 1-4 pm, Asbury 117
 DePauw University
 SPRING 2008
Professor Thomas Hall
 Office: 106 Asbury, x4519, email: thall@depauw.edu
 OFFICE HOURS:  Tu & Th 2 - 4 pm; W 4-5pm; & by appt
[I am usually in M, Tu, Th afternoons, 1-5 pm
please email to check first]
Reserve Readings
 Last Updated 4-5-08
NOTE: these items are or will be on reserve at Roy O. or on Moodle.
Where I have them, I put in ROY O. call #.

BOOKS at Roy O. West
TEXTBOOKS

Courtwright, David T. 2002. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
HV4997 .C68 2001

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild. 2003. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Books. HD6072 .G55 2003

Kerbo, Harold R.  2006. World Poverty:  Global Inequality and the Modern World System. New York: McGraw-Hill. HC79.P6 K46 2006

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

OTHER BOOKS

Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Nicholas Fraclas, Claudia Von Werlhof.  2001.  There Is an Alternative:  Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization.  London:  Zed Books.
HD2755.5 .T55 2001
This book has chapters by several authors who provide alternative visions of the future.  These my be useful to you when you begin to think about "solutions" to the social problem you study. They all suggest alternative ways to think about the future, and may inspire you to develop yet other alternatives.

Bonacich, Edna and Richard Appelbaum. 2000. Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press.  HD9940.U5 L712 2000

Boswell, Terry and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000. The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism:  Toward Global Democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner.  HC59.15 .B67 2000
This book looks at the future, so some of you may find it useful for your amelioration section.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Salvatore Babones. 2006. Global Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. HM831 .G495 2006 Huber, Joan. 2007. On the Origins of Gender Inequality. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. HQ1075 .H83 2007

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
May be useful for those addressing ecological problems.

Chomsky, Noam. 1999. Profits over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order. New York: Seven Stories Press.
HB95 .C516 1999

Clark, Robert P. 2002. Global Awareness: Thinking Systematically About the World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
JZ1318 .C59 2002
a great discussion of global issues, each chapter has a detailed example.

Featherstone, Mike, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson, eds. 1995. Global Modernities. Newbury Park: Sage.
HM101 .G565 1995
Several interesting chapters in this for some topics.

Hall, Thomas D., ed. 2000. A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
HM701 .W67 2000

King, Anthony D. ed. 1997. Culture, Globalization and the World-System. London: MacMillon.
GN357 .C848 1997
Mainly for the Abu-Lughod article we read the first night, but some chapter may be of use for some topics.

Kohler, Gernot. 2007. Global Economics: an Introductory Course. New York : Nova Science Publishers.
HF1359 .K5918 2007

Moghadam, Valentine M. 2005. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. HQ1101.M64 2005

Podobnik, Bruce and Thomas Reifer, eds. 2005. Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era. Leiden: Brill. HM881 .G558 2005

Ritzer, George, ed.  2004.  Handbook of Social Problems:  A Comparative International Perspective.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.
HN28 .H29 2004
This book has chapters on nearly every topic students have picked for seminar in the past.  It should be very useful. 

Robertson, Roland. 1995. "Glocalization: Time-Spance and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity." Pp. 25-24 in Global Modernitites, Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson, eds. Newbury Park: Sage.
see Featherstone volume
The source of the term "glocalization."

Ross, Robert J. S. 2004. Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. HD2337 .R67 2004

Sklair, Leslie. 2002. Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
HD2755.5 .S564 2002;
reviewed in:
Hall, Thomas D. and Erica McFadden. Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives. By Leslie Sklair. Journal of World-Systems Research 9:1(Winter, 2003):187-189. [http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]. [Erica McFadden is a Depauw alum, who coauthored this review while a student here].
The first discusses how corporations actually work in the globalizing economy, somewhat like a longer, and more detailed version of Chomsky.  The second is really one of the best introduction to Globalization around.  See my review with Eric McFadden under electronic reserves above.

Smith, David A. 1996. Third World Cities in Global Perspective: The Political Economy of Uneven Urbanization. Boulder: Westeview Press.
HT149.5 .S65 1966
Very useful for any thesis discussing urban issues.

Smith, Jackie. 2008. Social Movements for Global Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  on order for ROY O. West Library, due in early Feb.

Ward, Kathryn B., ed. 1990. Women Workers and Global Restructuring. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
HD6073.O33 W66 1990
Excellent source for a variety of gender issues.

ON MOODLE

Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1997. "Going Beyond Global Babble," Pp. 131-137 in  Culture, Globalization, and the World-System, edited by Anthony D. King. Minneapolis:   University of  Minnesota Press. 
in King volume.

Babones, Salvatore. 2007. "Operationalizing "Globalization" in Empirical Sociology." Working Draft presented at American Sociological Association meeting, NY, NY, August.

Best, Joel. 2004. "Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social Problems." Pp. 14-29 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.
HN28 .H29 2004 & moodle

Blackman, Tim and Roberta Woods. 2004. "Social Problems and Social Policy." Pp. 47-266 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.
HN28 .H29 2004 & 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.

Denizen, Norman K and Yvonna S. Lincoln. 2004. "Methodological Issues in the Study of Social Problems." Pp. 30-46 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.
HN28 .H29 2004 & moodle

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.

NEW
 Hall, Stuart. 1986. “Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 10:2:5-27. [Reprinted Pp. 411-440 in Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Culture Studies, edited by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, 1996. London: Routledge.

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 more recent overview of world-system theory than chapter one of the Hall reader.

Hall, Thomas D. 2004. “Ethnic Conflict as a Global Social Problem.” Pp. 139-155 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
in Ritzer volume & on moodle

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.

NEW
 Lears, T. J. Jackson. 1985. “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities.” American Historical Review 90:2(June):567-593.McMichael, Philip. 2000. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, 3nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

Meyer, John W. John Boli, George M. Thomas, Francisco O. Ramirez. 1997. "World Society and the Nation-State." American Journal of Sociology 103:1(July):144-181.
on moodle
This article we will read to get a sense of what a nation-state is in the modern world.

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
in Course Documents on moodle

NEW
Pozo, Luis M. 1998. “The Roots of Hegemony: The Mechanisms of Class Accomondation and the Emergence of the Nation-People. British Journal of Sociology 44:3(Sept.):55-88.

Ritzer, George. 2004. "Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective." Pp. 3-13 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.
HN28 .H29 2004 & moodle

NEW
 Wood, Brennon. 1998. “Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies and the Problem of Hegemonly.”  British Journal of Sociology 44:3(Sept.):319-414.

Internet Reserves:
 By "internet" I do NOT mean usual DPU electronic reserves, but reserve items that are available free on-line.

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.

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.  We WILL read this for seminar.  Many of Dunaway's suggestions can be used for other topics.

Dunaway, Wilma A.  2003.  “Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World-System:  The Dialectics of Counter-hegemonic Resistance in an Age of Transition.”  Journal of World-Systems Research 9:1(Winter):3-34. [E-Journal: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article critically examines claims that ethnic conflict has increased in recent decades.

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.

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, from a special issue on globalization.

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