Wednesday, April 29, 2009

SOC 4260 Global Society Final Exam Review Sheet

Soc 4260 Global Society

Final Exam Review Sheet

Remember, the final exam will not be cumulative. As far as I know, it will be held from 8-10am Thursday May 14, in our classroom.
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Things you should know about:

participative democracy
representative democracy
democratization
transitions from authoritarianism
Larry Diamond
Condoleeza Rice
David Held
3 waves of democratization
Treaty of Westphalia
national sovereignty
United Nations charter
regional parliaments

Susan Strange
authority beyond the state
non-state actors
ungovernance (global power vacuum)

Americanization

Richard Kuisel

Charles DeGaulle

Jose Bove

Starbucks

McDonalds

Michael Jordan

EuroDisney

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

"hyperpower exceptionalism"

Natan Sznaider

Schindler's List

Holocaust memorial museums

"banalization" of the Holocaust

“Disneyfication” of the Holocaust

"universalization" of the Holocaust


Jon Tomlinson
cultural imperialism
dreams and nightmares
"Dallas"
Ian Eng
Katz and Liebes

Steve Derne
non-elite Indian men
arranged marriages
love marriages
misogynistic movies

 

Nitza Berkovitch

International Women’s Movement

World Society

LCWIO

UN Decade for Women

Beijing Declaration”

 

Yasemin Soysal

Pal Nyiri

Post-WWII changes in citizenship

 

Assimilationism

Pluralism

Corporatism

Multiple citizenship

Universal notions of human rights

“Cultural rights”

Multi-level politics

“transnational pioneers”

“middleman minority”

The transnational Chinese community and the Chinese state

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