SOCIOLOGY

Words of warning: 2,500 languages under threat worldwide as migrants head for city Unesco unveils its first comprehensive database of endangered tongues

Geraldo off-line  Peter Martin  “The Moral Case for Globalization”  Martin Wolf “Why this Hatred of the Market?” These will be on midterm 2

The 1 st mid-term exam will be held in class on February 19, and will cover the course readings on the syllabus through (i.e. including) Karl Marx.   You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:  C. Wright Mills Karl Marx Max Weber Emile Durkheim Thorstein Veblen Charles Darwin Auguste Comte Thomas Malthus Herbert Spencer Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore Ferdinand Toennies Georg Simmel Thorstein Veblen Pierre Bourdieu   What is sociological theory? What is a theory? “false consciousness” Suicide and social integration   Functionalism Conflict theory Inequality Cultural Theory Values Rituals Socialization   Organic analogy Theological stage Metaphysical stage Positivist stage Natural selection “survival of the fittest” “Laws of Population Growth” Meritocracy   Gemeinschaft (“Community”) Gesellschaft (“Society”)   Mechanical solidarity Organic solidarity Anomie Individua...

The Exam will be in class on Tuesday, February 17 Sociology 4260: Global Society   Prof. Gabe Ignatow Mid-term Exam 1 Review Sheet Samuel Huntington “The Clash of Civilizations” Immanuel Wallerstein “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System” Benjamin Barber “Jihad vs. McWorld” Martin Albrow “Traveling Beyond Local Cultures” Pico Iyer “Bali: On Prospero’s Isle/Born in the  USA ” E. J. Hobsbawm “The World Unified” Leslie Sklair “Sociology of the Global System” Jan Nederveen Pieterse “Globalization as Hybridization” Geraldo off-line Peter Martin “The Moral Case for Globalization” Martin Wolf “Why this Hatred of the Market?” Nation-state sociology Dual citizenship Transnational corporations Satellite television Internet International non-governmental organizations Rise of the nation-state Decline of states globalists traditionalists transformationalists multinational corporations global trade communications technology diseases global environmental problems terrorism global...

I believe that all of the links work now, and I uploaded pdfs of the Iyer and Hobsbawm articles. Please email me (ignatow@unt.edu) if you have any trouble with the syllabus: http://gignatow.googlepages.com/globalsociety

Chilies Global warming Dec 18th 2008 From  The Economist  print edition Why the world has taken to chilies AP http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12792719

Dear all, For now, I'll use memo-writers' initials to preserve some degree of anonymity. We can discuss whether we should use full names or not in class this week. I don't want to violate anyone's privacy, but on the other hand, for purposes of class discussion it's good to know whose opinion is whose. GI S K Spring 2008 Response Paper 1 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis The first and foremost question that needs to be asked in the context of globalization is application of Immanuel Wallerstein’s theory of world-systems. Reflecting on the assigned readings I believe Wallerstein is complex and difficult to analyze. Background research did guide me to a more simplified understanding of the premises of his theory. In the 1970s Wallerstein made efforts to extend classical Marxist thinking to the present contemporary form of capitalist society. Wallerstein offers a critique of capitalist exploitation within relat...