Sociology 265j, Topics in Race and Class Inequality:

Global inequality

Winter 2004 Thursday 4-7

College Building South- Map Room C. Chase-Dunn

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This graduate seminar focuses on contemporary research and theorizing on transformations of modes of accumulation, transnational social movements and studies of global social change in comparative and historical perspective. This is an elective course for the Sociology Department’s graduate specialization in the Political Economy and Global Social Change and for the specialization in Inequality.

Requirements: Grades will be based on attendance, participation in discussion, a take-home midterm examination, and a five-page essay on a topic germane to the course. The questions for the midterm will be handed out on February 19 and the answers are due in class on March 4. The five-page essay is due on March 18. See Suggested topics for Five-Page Essay. A one-paragraph description of the essay topic is due on February 19.

Books available in the Campus Book Store are:

Stephen Gill, Power and Resistance in the New World Order Palgrave 2003

Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien, Global Unions? Routledge 2002

Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy Zed 2001

Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are required. Others are recommended.

Reading Schedule:

Asterisked (*) readings are required. Others are recommended. Required readings should be read prior to the class meeting date.

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January 15

*Christopher Chase-Dunn and Terry Boswell, “Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery” (course web site)

http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/courses/265j/c-d&bosasa03.htm

Terry Boswell and C. Chase-Dunn, The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Immanuel Wallerstein, Utopistics.

Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future. University of Chicago Press 1996

January 16-21 World Social Forum, Mumbai, India

http://www.wsfindia.org

January 22

Bruce Podobnik, “Global energy inequalities: exploring the long-run implications” Journal of World-Systems Research*, Special Issue on Global Inequality. Part 2, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2002.

http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol8/number2/pdf/jwsr-v8n2-podobnik.pdf

January 29

*Stephen Gill, Power and Resistance in the New World Order Palgrave 2003

H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy. Praeger

February 5

*Stephen Gill, Power and Resistance in the New World Order Palgrave 2003

Samir Amin, Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

February 12

*Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy Zed 2001

Walden Bello, Deglobalization. Zed 2002

John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars. Rand 2001.

February 19 One-paragraph description of Five-page Essay topic is due.

STUDY QUESTIONS FOR MIDTERM HANDED OUT

*Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy Zed 2001

Tom Hayden (ed.) The Zapatista Reader. Avalon.

Robin Broad (ed.) Global Backlash. Rowman and Littlefield.

February 26 No Class

March 4 Take-home Midterm is Due

*Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien, Global Unions? Routledge 2002

Chapters 1-7.

March 11