SOAN 453B: SENIOR SEMINAR:
Senior Seminar: Issues in Contemporary Sociology:
Social Problems in Global-Historical Perspective
WED 2:45-5:15 AL 432
Colgate University
Fall 2004 Professor Thomas Hall
Office: 408 Alumni, x7083, email: tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Tu 2:45-4; W 1:30-2:30 & 5:20-6, Th
12-1, & by appt
Useful Electronic Links
Last Updated 10-6-04
STILL BEING UPDATED]
General Links on Global Issues:
NEW: Lappe's Web: Small Planet Institute
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.
For links to many organizations that study long-term social
change see "A Few Interesting Links" on the research page of my web:
http://acad.depauw.edu/~thall/research.htm
Links on Global Warming: http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/temperature.htm
Links on Global Economy: http://www.irvl.net/Globalisation-Links.htm
UNICEF's web page, many links on children: http://www.unicef.org/sowc00/
The World Revolution
http://www.worldrevolution.org/
This group while dedicated to changing the world, summarizes lots of information
on global processes and differences.
Various Organizations with
Views and/or Data:
Center for Economic Policy Research: http://www.cepr.net/
An interesting resource to visit is the US Government "Digital Earth"
Project, sponsored by Al Gore:
http://www.digitalearth.gov/main.html
Economic Polity Institute: http://epinet.org/
Inequality.org: http://www.inequality.org/
Luccal.com: http://www.luccaco.com/
This site has information on child abuse.
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.
Articles:
Chomsky, Noam. 2002 99/9/02).
"Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes." Guardian
Unlimited.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,788508,00.html
more Chomsky, a quick read.
Many Wilma A. Dunaway articles are on the following site:
http://hometown.aol.com/wadunaway/articles.htm
An article on globalization:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3029&sid=0&pid=0&t=globalization
State department look at terrorism:
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2003/12389.htm
Links on inequality:
Here is one from the World Bank itself:
http://www.worldbank.org/research/inequality/globalization.htm
there are article here that show that world bank policies have backfired in
terms of reducing poverty, by a world bank analyst!
Individuals:
Brad DeLong, Economist at UC Berkeley writes commentaries on many topic relevant
to globalization:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/
Professor Wilma A. Dunaway's course pages for several course, undergrad and graduate on Global Social Problems, with many usefule links: http://hometown.aol.com/wadunaway/course.htm
You can also access her many papers from the following site:
http://hometown.aol.com/wadunaway/articles.htm
Journals and Archives:
World-Systems Archive http://wsarch.ucr.edu/
has many useful resources, including:
A new summary of hegemony and cycles debates, relevant to timing of
social problems and Shannon's account of the world-system:
http://wsarch.ucr.edu/archive/seminars/hegewar.html
Journal of World-Systems Research [http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php] 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.
Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer
has many interesting articles and links:
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
Send comments or questions to
tdhall@mail.collgateedu
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