Selected Topics in Sociology: Death, Waste, and Time: Political Traction in the New Global Spaces
SOC 399
Fall 2010 not offered
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
| Certificates: International Relations |
"All that is solid melts into air." Thus it was in the modern age; thus it remains in the new worlds. The class will explore both classic and subsequent social theories of global capitalism. The organizing question will be: What will become of the social and personal structures that, since the world revolutions of 1968, can be understood as inclined toward the wastage of human life and institutions? Modernity's prevailing assumption that time inclines toward justice, if not progress, will be examined with respect to the prospects of political traction in the new global spaces. The historic ideals of liberal reform and social revolution will be subjected to the evidence that global spaces since 1989 have increasingly drifted apart in economic terms while presenting themselves, in cultural terms, as flowing together. Readings will include Agamben, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Simmel, Braudel, Canguilheim, Bachelard, Levinas, Derrida, Deleuze, Prigogine, Wallerstein, Dienst, Clough, Virilio, DeLanda, Han, Lemert, Ong, Lowe, Bauman, among others, as well as primary historical and analytic texts on global history since 1867, with emphasis on the late modern period and new millennium. |
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Essential Capabilities:
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
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David Remnick, KING OF THE WORLD (Muhammad Ali)
Douglas Brinkley, ROSA PARKS
Vijay Prasad, THE KARMA OF BROWN FOLK
Gloria Azaldua, INTERVIEWS/ENTREVISTAS
Toni Morrison, SU
Maxine Hong Kingston, WARRIOR WOMAN
Charles Lemert, MUHAMMAD ALI: TRICKSTER KING IN THE CULTURE OF IRONY
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short papers, group projects and paper, final long essay. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students without SOC 151 may be admitted on a permission of instructor basis. Please do not register if you are unwilling to read all the assignments and attend every class. |
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