SOAN 453: Senior Seminar
Spring 2000 T 3:00-5:30, 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
Last Updated: 1-18-00
OFFICE HOURS:    Tu 6-7; Th 3-5, & by appointment
Readings, Week 1 & 2

See Texts and Reserve Readings for Seminar fuller citations to the texts.

Week 1, 1/25:
1.  Glynn, Global Social Problems Ch 1, pp. 2-25, on reserve.  Try to read for tomorrow.  This is an overview of what a social problem is and how they are global. The subsequent chapters of Glynn are a good starting place for exploring many social problems, but not a good source for your thesis! WHY? Because Glynn is a textbook for a 100/200 level course. So it does not go into great depth, but does cover the basics, and gives a few references to get you started.

2.  Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1997. "Going Beyond Global Babble," Pp. 131-137 in King, Culture, Globalization, and the World-System. We will actually read this in class! It cuts through a lot of nonsense. Students last year recommended that we read this the first night--so we are!

3. Hall, Thomas D.  2000.  "World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe."  Pp. 3-27 in A World-Systems Reader: New Pespectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology, edited by Thomas D. Hall. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.  I will talk about this in class, and we will continue with its themes the next two weeks.

Week 2, 2/1:
1.  Robbins, Richard H.  Chs. 1 & 2, especially Ch. 1 [pp. 1-63].  This gives an overview of the main "text" and will help you start forumulating a social problem to study.  You should also do a little surfing on Interesting or Useful Electronic LINKS page, especially the links to this text.

2.  Schaeffer, Robert K. 1997. Understanding Globalization, Chs. 1-2, pp. 1-39. This gives an overview of global issues. We will dip into the rest of the book to examine problems that class members choose to study. This book will help frame the problem you choose to study in global terms, and be useful on your topic--assuming Schaeffer discusses it.

3. Shannon, Chs. 1 & 2 [pp. 1-43]

4. Chirot, all.

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