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(CRN: 99280, Sociology SYO 4377-001, 3 credit hours)
Semester: Fall 2015
Instructor: Dr. Phillip A. Hough, Sociology Department,
Դɼ, Boca Raton, FL 33431
Class Times: Thursdays 4:00-6:50 PM (SO 170)
Contact Info: HYPERLINK "mailto:phough2@fau.edu" phough2@fau.edu, 561-297-3271
Office Hours: Mondays 12:00-4:00 PM (Culture and Society Bldg, CU 262)
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor or 3 sociology courses at the 1000, 2000, or 3000 levels.
Course Description:
This upper division undergraduate course will expose students to the dominant sociological theories of workers and class relations under historical capitalism, to the forces driving contemporary processes of economic globalization, and how workers situated within specific sectors of the economy are affected by and respond to processes of globalization.
Course Objectives:
Students will understand both Marxist and Polanyian conceptualizations of workers and class relations under capitalism
Students will understanding contemporary scholarly debates over the primary structures contemporary processes of economic globalization
Students will understand the social and political forces driving processes of globalization
Students will understand the social contradictions of globalization and the impact of globalization on the rights and plight of workers and working-class communities across the globe
Students will become familiar with the plight of workers in specific sectors of the world economy, including the extractive, agro-food, auto, clothing, retail and financial services industries.
Course Context:
This is a 4000-level course. It can be counted towards the sociology major or minor.
Course Requirements:
Attendance: Attendance is taken every class. Let me know via email if you will be or were absent on any given day. Students will be excused for absences for any university-approved reasons. [10%];
Participation: Students must come to class prepared to discuss the readings. Students must participate in class discussions regularly. [10%];
Three Short Writing Assignments: There will be a writing assignment designed to assess the students understanding of each substantive part of the course (4-5 pages each) [60%];
Final Position Paper: Topic to be announced (8-10 pages) [20%]
Grading System:
A = 93-100; A- = 90-92; B+ = 87-89; B = 83-86; B- = 80-82; C+ = 77-79; C = 73-76; C- = 70-72; D+ = 67-69; D = 63-66; D- = 60-62; F = 0-59
Course Materials*:
Peter Dicken, Global Shift: Mapping the Contours of the World Economy, 7th Edition (2015)
All other readings will be downloadable from our courses Blackboard site*
(8/20) Introduction to Course
Film: The Take (Dir. Avi Lewis, 2004)
Part I: What is Labor? What is Capital? What is Capitalism?
(8/27) Karl Marx: Exploitation, Alienation, and the Structure of Class Conflict
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 [1844]
Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital [1847]
Karl Marx, Classes [1867]
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848]
(9/3) Karl Polanyi: Fictitious Commodities and the Double Movement
Fred Block and Margaret Somers, Chapter 1: Karl Polanyi and the Power of Ideas, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyis Critique (2014)
Fred Block, Introduction, The Great Transformation (2001)
Karl Polanyi, The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money, The Great Transformation ([1944]2001)
Part II: Understanding Globalization
(9/10) What is Globalization?
Dicken, Ch. 1: What in the World is Going On?
Dicken, Ch. 2: The Centre of Gravity Shifts: Transforming the Geographies of the Global Economy
*First Assignment Due*
(9/17) Why is Globalization Happening?
Dicken, Ch. 3: Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy
Dicken, Ch. 4: Technological Change: Gales of Creative Destruction
(9/24) Who are the Key Social Agents Driving Globalization?
Dicken, Ch. 5: Transnational Corporations: The Primary Movers and Shapers of the Global Economy
Dicken, Ch. 6: The State Really Does Matter
Dicken, Ch. 7: The Uneasy Relationship between Transnational Corporations and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
(10/1) Neoliberalism, Market Fundamentalism and the Double Movement
Fred Block and Margeret Somers, Ch. 7: The Enduring Strength of Free Market Conservatism in the United States
Fred Block and Margeret Somers, Ch. 8: The Reality of Society
Beverly Silver, Ch. 1 of Forces of Labor
Part III: Case Studies of Workers across Economic Sectors of the World Economy
(10/8) Extractive Industries: Externalizing the Costs of Production
Dicken, Ch. 9: Destroying Value: Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks
Dicken, Ch. 12: Making Holes in the Ground: The Extractive Industries
Film: Crude (Dir. Joe Berlinger, 2009)
*Second Assignment Due*
(10/15) The Agro-Food Industry: Creating Health Problems, Exploiting Workers
Dicken, Ch. 13: We Are What We Eat: The Agro-Food Industries
Film: Food, Inc (Dir. Robert Kenner, 2008),
or Food Chains (Dir. Sanjay Rawal, 2014)
(10/22) The Clothing Industry: The Global Race to the Bottom
Dicken, Ch. 14: Fabric-ating Fashion: The Clothing Industry
Film: The True Cost (Dir. Andrew Morgan, 2015)
(10/29) The Automobile Industry: Capital Mobility and Working-Class Formations
Dicken, Ch. 15: Wheels of Change: The Automobile Industry
Beverly Silver, Ch. 2: Labor Movements and Capital Mobility, Forces of Labor (2003)
Film: Roger and Me (Dir. Michal Moore, 1989)
(11/5) The Retail Industry: Wal-Mart, Fordism and Post-Fordism
Dicken, Ch. 16: Making the World Go Round: Advanced Business Services
Nelson Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century Capitalism
Edna Bonacich and Khaleelah Hardie, Wal-Mart and the Logistics Revolution
Film: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Dir. Robert Greenwald, 2005)
(11/12) Class Canceled SSHA Conference
(11/19) The FIRE Industries: Financialization and the New Precariat
Gretta Krippner, The Financialization of the American Economy
Guy Standing, Ch. 1, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
Film: Inside Job (Dir. Charles Ferguson, 2010)
*Third Assignment Due*
(11/26) No Class Thanksgiving Recess
(12/3) Finals Week - Final Papers Due and Class Discussion
Disability Policy Statement:In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADAAA), students who require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to properly execute coursework must register with Student Accessibility Services (SAS)in Boca Raton, SU 133 (561-297-3880),in Davie, LA 131(954-236-1222), in Jupiter, SR 110 (561-799-8585)and follow all SAS procedures.
Academic Integrity Policy Statement:Students at Դɼ are expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. Academic dishonesty, including cheating and plagiarism, is considered a serious breach of these ethical standards, because it interferes with the University mission to provide a high quality education in which no student enjoys an unfair advantage over any other. Academic dishonesty is also destructive of the University community, which is grounded in a system of mutual trust and places high value on personal integrity and individual responsibility. Harsh penalties are associated with academic dishonesty. For more information, see the Code of Academic Integrity in the University Regulations: HYPERLINK "http://www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter4/4.001_Code_of_Academic_Integrity.pdf" \t "_blank" http;//www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter4/4.001_Code_of_Academic_Integrity.pdf
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