SOAN 453: Senior Seminar
Spring 2000 T 3:0-5:30, Alumni 432
Professor Thomas D. Hall
A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions
417 Alumni Hall, x7545, email:thall; web: people.colgate.edu/thall
Useful Links
Last Updated: 2-9-00
A good source is United Nations Development Program, http://www.undp.org/indexalt.html
see especially two reports about consumption: http://www.undp.org/hdro/e98over.htm
and about income and quality of life: http://www.undp.org/hdro/e90over.htm
You may want to be cautious with some of this, since it is quite pro-development, but
still has some provocative ideas.
An interesting resource to visit is the US Government "Digital Earth"
Project, sponsored by Al Gore:
http://www.digitalearth.gov/main.html
A new summary of hegemony and cycles debates, relevant to timing of social problems and Shannon's account of the world-system: http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/seminars/hegewar.html
Professor Wilma A. Dunaway at Virginia Tech has two courses on line of
relevance to the seminar. The first is especially good since it focuses on social
problems, and has many additional links:
Preparing for the 21st Century: Social Problems in a Polarized World:
http://hometown.aol.com/don51035/index.htm
The second is an advanced course still being developed, but
has some great links to useful theories and data: Globalization Through the Lens of
World-Systems Theory:
http://hometown.aol.com/soc5984/index.htm
An interesting article on a leading world-systems theorist, Christopher
Chase-Dunn, on the cycles of history:
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?section=cover&pagename=story&storyid=1150210216808
The Online Global Problems
Reader which accompanies Robbins text:
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/legacy
The Reader contains some 150 articles, simulations, and exercises, all of
which are available Online. Subjects range from the development
of the consumer, laborer, capitalist and nation-state, to
issues such as population, hunger, poverty, environmental
destruction, disease, ethnic conflict and indigenous
peoples. There are also sections on peasant revolt,
anti-systemic movements, and religious protest.
Journal of World-Systems Research is a free on line journal devoted to world-systems studies. Vol. 5, No. 2 is devoted to globalization, so some of you may find this issue useful. The first link takes you to JWSR home page, the second directly to the Globalization issue.
For web sources on population, see World Population: A Guide to WWW:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/population.html
Anthropologists Working on Poverty, Homelessness and Welfare Reform,Looks like an interesting site, with a number of useful links.
For information on the growth of U.S. foreign debt - $1.3 trillion in
fresh borrowing during the Clinton years alone: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/USForDebt.html
for measuring inequality see: Measuring Privilege, also
from Doug Henwood's Left
Business Observer
NCCP: National Center for Children in Poverty. A good source for any social problem that involves families or children.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, another think tank, with good data, and policy discussions.
Send comments or questions to thall@mail.colgate.edu