Sociology xxx C. Chase-Dunn

Days and hours Location

Social Change

v. 1-5-14; 21 lectures

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This is a course on the socio-cultural evolution and historical development of human institutions and human societies.

We will compare stateless, state-based and modern systems to examine the rise and fall of large polities and the expansion and contraction of trade networks.

The evolutionary history of capitalist globalization and the emergence of anti-systemic transnational movements will also be studied.

We also study the evolution of gender inequality in human societies.

Systematic comparisons are made among different kinds of intersocietal systems (world-systems) with attention to qualitative changes in the logic of

socio-cultural development. General theories of social evolution and historical development are reviewed and critiqued. The dynamics of the rise and fall of

chiefdoms, states, empires, and modern hegemons will be studied. Earlier processes of pulsation in which trade networks expanded and contracted will be

compared with recent waves of global integration in the modern world-system.

Grading is based on the midterm exam (30%) [DATE], the final (30%)[DATE], attendance (15%), and a short (less than 10 page typed, double-spaced)

research paper (25%) [due xxxxxx]. The midterm and the final will be in-class essay exams.

The following book is available at the University Book Store and is on reserve:

C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change:Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present 2014, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers

Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are required. Others are recommended. All required readings should be completed before the class meeting

for which they are assigned.

Schedule of lectures and readings

1^st Class: Syllabus handed out. Overview of the course

2^nd Class: History and Sociocultural Evolution

*C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change, Preface, Part 1: The Framework, and Chapter 1

Stephen Sanderson, Social Evolutionism

David Christian, Maps of Time

3^rd Class: The comparative world-systems perspective

* C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change, Chapter 2,” The comparative world-systems approach”

C. Chase-Dunn and T.D. Hall, Rise and Demise

4^th Class: Biological bases of social evolution

*C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change, Chapter 3, “Biological bases of sociocultural evolution”

5^th Class: The Self as an Institution

*C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change,, Chapter 4, “Building a social

self: the macro-micro link”

6^th Class: Hunter-gatherer world-systems

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Part 2: Stateless Systems, Chapter 5, “World-systems of hunter-gatherers”

Brian Fagan, Before California

C. Chase-Dunn and K. Mann, The Wintu and Their Neighbors

7^th Class: turn in short description of paper topic

Midterm Study Questions Handed Out

Neolithic horticulture

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 6 : “The gardeners”

* Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Web Chapter : “North American world-systems before the chiefs”

8^th Class: The Sacred Chiefs

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 7 “The Sacred Chiefs”

Patrick Kirch, The Evolution of Polynesian Chiefdoms

9^th Class: Early State-Based Systems: The Temple and the Palace

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Part 3: State-based Systems, Chapter 8 “The temple and the palace”

Norman Yoffee, Myths of the Archaic State

10^th Class: Midterm

11^th Class: Cognitive Evolution in the Bronze and Iron Ages

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 9 “Public spaces, self and cognitive evolution”

Bruce Lerro, From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods

12^th Class: The early empires: semiperipheral marcher states and capitalist city-states

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 10 “The early empires”

13^th : The Central System and East/West Synchrony in Afroeurasia

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 11 “The Central System”

David Wilkinson, “Central Civilization” Comparative Civilizations Review 7: 31-59 (Fall)

1976.

14^th Class : The Rise of the West

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Part 4: the Long Rise of Capitalism and Chapter 12 “The long rise of the West”

Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony

18^th Class : The Modern World-System

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 13 “The modern world-system”

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System, Volume 1.

Giovanni Arrighi, The Long 20^th Century

15^th Class: The Early Modern System in the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries: From Genoa to Amsterdam.

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 14: “The early modern systems in the 15^th to 18^th centuries”

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System, Volume 2.

Giovanni Arrighi, The Long 20^th Century

16^th Class: British Hegemony and the Nineteenth Century Wave of Globalization;

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 15 “The global 19^th century”

Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Global Formation

17^st Class: The Consolidation of Individualism and Cognitive Evolution Under

Capitalism

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 16 “Public spaces, individualism and cognition in the modern age”

22^nd Class: The Twentieth Century: Age of Extremes;

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 17: “The 20^th century age of extremes”

Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes

18^rd Class: Another Round of Hegemony and Globalization

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 18: “The world-system since 1945”

C. Chase-Dunn, "Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective" Journal of World- Systems Research, Volume V, 2, 1999, 165-185.

19^th Class: Late Globalization

*Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 19 “Late globalization: the early 21^st Century”

20^th Class: The Next Three Human Futures

* Chase-Dunn and Lerro, Chapter 20: “The next three futures: another round of U.S. hegemony, global collapse or global democracy”

Heikki Patomaki, The Political Economy of Global Security

Research Paper Due xxxxxxx

21^th Class. Final Study Questions handed out

*C. Chase-Dunn “The World Revolution of 2011: Assembling a United Front of the New Global Left”

IROWS Working Paper #82 https://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows82/irows82.htm

Date and time of : Final Exam