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
Reserve Materials
Last Updated 9-7-04
All or most will be in Alumni 430, SOAN Resouces Room
Internet
Reserves:
By "internet" I do
NOT mean
usual BLACKBOARD electronic reserves, but reserve items that are available free
on-line.
Carlson, Jon
D. 2001. Broadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the
Zone of Ignorance. Journal of World-Systems Research
7:2(Fall):225-263 [E-Journal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article reviews the expansion of world-systems, examining the concept of
incorporation and compares it with various International Relations explanations
of expansion.
Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1999. "Globalization:A
World-Systems Perspective." Journal of World-Systems Research
5:2(Summer):156-185 [ejournal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article gives an world-systems view of globalization.
Dunaway, Wilma A.
2001. “The Double Register
of History: Situation the Forgotten
Woman and Her Household in Capitalist Commodity Chains.”
Journal of World-System
Research 7:1(Spring):2-31 [E-Journal:
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This article critiques world-system theory for insufficient attention to gender,
BUT ALSO shows how to examine gender issues. We WILL read this for
seminar. Many of Dunaway's suggestions can be used for other topics.
Hall,
Thomas D. and
and Erica McFadden. Globalization: Capitalism and Its
Alternatives. By Leslie Sklair. Journal of World-Systems
Research 9:1(Winter, 2003):187-189 [ejournal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php].
This is a review of Sklair's book, cowritten with a student from Social Change
in 2003.
Manning, Susan, ed.
1999. "Introduction [To
special issue on Globalization]." Journal of World-Systems Research 5:2(Summer):137-141 [ejournal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]
[issue 137-461].
Just what it says, the entire issue discusses globalization. The
Chase-Dunn, Moghadam, and Sklair articles are especially good, and are in this
list.
Moghadam,
Valentine M. 1999.
"Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s
Mobilization." Journal of World-Systems Research
5:2(Summer):367-388 [ejournal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]
Another from the special issue, with emphasis on gender.
Pyle, Jean L. and Kathryn B. Ward. 2003. "Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work during Global Restructuring." International Sociology 18:3(Sept):461-489.
Ritzer, George. 2004. "Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective." Pp. 3-13 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sklair,
Leslie. 1999.
“Competing Conceptions of Globalization.”
Journal of World-Systems Research
5:2(Summer): 141-159 [ejournal
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php]
Sklair's position. Another from the special issue.
Materials in Alumni 430
Best, Joel. 2004.
"Theoretical Issues int he Study of Social Problems and Deviance." Pp.
14-29 in Handbook of Social
Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by
George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Blackman, Tim and Roberta Woods. 2004. "Social Problems and Public Policy." Pp. 47-66 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
This article gives a different view of globalization, and presents data showing
that it began in the 19th century at least.
On reserved for SOAN 309
Denzin, Norman K., and Yvonna S. Lincoln. 2004. "Methodological Issues in the Study of Social Problems." Pp. 30-46 in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dunaway, Wilma A. 2003. "Has Terrorism Changed the World-System Forever? Pp. 3-13 in Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System: Vol. I: Crises and Resistance in the 21st World-System, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Grimes, Peter. 2000. "Recent Research on World-Systems." Pp. 29-55 in A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology, edited by Thomas D. Hall. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Hall, Thomas D., ed. 2000. A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hall, Thomas D. 2002. "World-Systems
Analysis and Globalization: Directions
for the Twenty-First Century." Pp.
81-122 in Theoretical Directions in Political Sociolology for the 21st
Century, Vol. 11, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, Lisa K.
Waldner. Oxford:
Elsevier Science Ltd.
A more recent overview of world-system theory than chapter one of the Hall
reader, covers same material as Hall & Grimes readings.
Meyer, John W. John Boli, George M. Thomas, Francisco O. Ramirez. 1997.
"World Society and the Nation-State." American Journal
of Sociology 103:1(July):144-181.
This article we will
read to get a sense of what a nation-state is in the modern world.
TO BE ON RESERVE IN ALUMNI 430 SOON:
Ward, Kathryn. 1993. "Reconceptualizing World-system Theory to Include
Women." Pp. 43-68 in Paula England (ed.) Theory on Gender/ Feminism on
Theory. New York: Aldine.
One of the earliest, and very useful critques of world-systems analysis for
ignoring gender. We will read it with the Dunaway article.
Send comments or questions to tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
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