You will need a scantron form for this exam. You do NOT need a bluebook. There is NO take-home essay.
There are no changes to your syllabus, and as indicated on your syllabus, here is the material that will be covered on the exam:
In Giddens et al.:
Chapter 20. Globalization
Chapter 3. Culture and Society
On the internet:
“Globalization” by Anthony Giddens (article on the internet: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Publications/1ReithLecturesGlobalisation.pdf)
“The Original Affluent Society” by Marshall Sahlins (article on the internet: http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm)
In the Massey reader:
48. “Job on the Line” by William M. Adler
9. “McDonald’s in Hong Kong” by James L. Watson
8. ROBERT GOLDMAN AND STEPHEN PAPSON, From Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh
41. “Shared Paternity” by Kim McDonald
47. From Amish Society by John Hostetler
43. KATHLEEN E. HULL, From Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Midterm 2 Study guide for Giddens et al. Chapter 3. Culture and Society
Have knowledge of the following:
culture
values
norms
material goods
society
“cultural turn”
sociobiology
subculture
Nacirema
ethnocentrism
cultural relativism
cultural universals
language
Sapir and Whorf, linguistic relativity hypothesis
hunting and gathering societies
pastoral societies
agrarian societies
nonindustrial civilizations
empires
industrialization
traditional civilizations
industrial societies
nation-state
colonialism
first world societies
second world societies
developing societies
newly industrializing economies (NIEs)
globalization
the dominant American value system
Have knowledge of the following:
culture
values
norms
material goods
society
“cultural turn”
sociobiology
subculture
Nacirema
ethnocentrism
cultural relativism
cultural universals
language
Sapir and Whorf, linguistic relativity hypothesis
hunting and gathering societies
pastoral societies
agrarian societies
nonindustrial civilizations
empires
industrialization
traditional civilizations
industrial societies
nation-state
colonialism
first world societies
second world societies
developing societies
newly industrializing economies (NIEs)
globalization
the dominant American value system
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Here is the link for the globalization lecture by Anthony Giddens. It is from your syllabus.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Publications/1ReithLecturesGlobalisation.pdf
You will need the adobe acrobat reader installed on your computer. Here is the link to the reader if you need it:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BONRM
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Publications/1ReithLecturesGlobalisation.pdf
You will need the adobe acrobat reader installed on your computer. Here is the link to the reader if you need it:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BONRM
Study guide/discussion questions for “The Original Affluent Society” by Marshall Sahlins. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
How does Sahlins characterize the hunting and gathering societies that he describes?
Is there much starvation?
Do they work long hours?
Do they practice infanticide, senilicide, sexual continence for the duration of the nursing period?
Do they eat whatever they have as if there is no tomorrow?
Do they take good care of their possessions?
What can we learn from looking at hunting and gathering societies?
How does Sahlins characterize the hunting and gathering societies that he describes?
Is there much starvation?
Do they work long hours?
Do they practice infanticide, senilicide, sexual continence for the duration of the nursing period?
Do they eat whatever they have as if there is no tomorrow?
Do they take good care of their possessions?
What can we learn from looking at hunting and gathering societies?
Study guide/discussion questions for "Growing Up as a Fore Is to Be 'In Touch' and Free" by E. RICHARD SORENSON. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
Describe child-rearing among the Fore.
How did the Fore respond to modernization?
What can we learn from observing the Fore?
Describe child-rearing among the Fore.
How did the Fore respond to modernization?
What can we learn from observing the Fore?
Study guide and discussion questions questions for "Greenpeace and Political Globalism" by PAUL WAPNER. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
Discussion questions:
What is the relationship between culture and social change?
Discuss legal and cultural factors in understanding social change.
How does an ecological sensibility lead to social change?
Discuss Greenpeace and their strategy for protecting the environment.
Study guide questions:
How does Wapner describe Greenpeace?
How is Greenpeace organized?
What is Greenpeace concerned with?
What is Greenpeace’s major goal?
Discussion questions:
What is the relationship between culture and social change?
Discuss legal and cultural factors in understanding social change.
How does an ecological sensibility lead to social change?
Discuss Greenpeace and their strategy for protecting the environment.
Study guide questions:
How does Wapner describe Greenpeace?
How is Greenpeace organized?
What is Greenpeace concerned with?
What is Greenpeace’s major goal?
Study guide/discussion questions for "From Amish Society" by JOHN A. HOSTETLER. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
How does Hostetler characterize Amish society?
What can we learn from looking at Amish society?
How does Hostetler characterize Amish society?
What can we learn from looking at Amish society?
Study guide/discussion questions for "Modernization’s Challenge to Traditional Values: Who’s Afraid of Ronald McDonald?" by RONALD INGELHART AND WAYNE E. BAKER. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
Describe the traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression dimensions.
According to Ingelhart and Baker, what may account for differences in values?
How is the United States a deviant case?
Describe the traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression dimensions.
According to Ingelhart and Baker, what may account for differences in values?
How is the United States a deviant case?
Study guide/discussion questions for "Shared Paternity" by KIM A. MCDONALD. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week and next for the online class).
What is McDonald's criticism of sociobiology?
According to McDonald, why do women in some societies in South America have multiple sex partners?
Is her argument convincing to you?
What is McDonald's criticism of sociobiology?
According to McDonald, why do women in some societies in South America have multiple sex partners?
Is her argument convincing to you?
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Study guide and discussion questions for “McDonald’s in Hong Kong: Consumerism, Dietary Change, and the Rise of a Children’s Culture” (from Golden Arches East) by JAMES WATSON. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week for the online class).
Here are some discussion questions that you can think about:
What is Watson’s assessment of the Americanization of the world?
Have the people of Hong Kong become Americanized?
Discuss the differences in mental categories with respect to hamburgers in the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Discuss the differences between the U.S. and Hong Kong with respect to consumer preferences for food at McDonald’s.
Discuss the transformation of attitudes about McDonald’s in Hong Kong.
Discuss cultural differences with respect to friendliness between the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Discuss the busing of trays, speedy consumption, the queue, “hovering,” and “Napkin Wars.”
What have you noticed in your travels around the world or from meeting people from other places here in the U.S? Has the world become Americanized?
Study guide questions:
In what ways is McDonald’s in Hong Kong similar or different from McDonald’s in other Asian countries?
According to Watson, McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong have attracted what group(s) of customers?
How is McDonald’s reinterpreted by the Hong Kong people?
What is the main reason people in Hong Kong eat at McDonald’s?
How do customers’ typically behave in Hong Kong’s McDonald’s restaurants?
Here are some discussion questions that you can think about:
What is Watson’s assessment of the Americanization of the world?
Have the people of Hong Kong become Americanized?
Discuss the differences in mental categories with respect to hamburgers in the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Discuss the differences between the U.S. and Hong Kong with respect to consumer preferences for food at McDonald’s.
Discuss the transformation of attitudes about McDonald’s in Hong Kong.
Discuss cultural differences with respect to friendliness between the U.S. and Hong Kong.
Discuss the busing of trays, speedy consumption, the queue, “hovering,” and “Napkin Wars.”
What have you noticed in your travels around the world or from meeting people from other places here in the U.S? Has the world become Americanized?
Study guide questions:
In what ways is McDonald’s in Hong Kong similar or different from McDonald’s in other Asian countries?
According to Watson, McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong have attracted what group(s) of customers?
How is McDonald’s reinterpreted by the Hong Kong people?
What is the main reason people in Hong Kong eat at McDonald’s?
How do customers’ typically behave in Hong Kong’s McDonald’s restaurants?
Study guide and discussion questions for "Jihad vs. McWorld" by BENJAMIN R. BARBER. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week for the online class).
Study guide/discussion questions:
What does Barber mean by the terms Jihad and McWorld? Summarize his thoughts.
Do you agree with his analysis?
Study guide/discussion questions:
What does Barber mean by the terms Jihad and McWorld? Summarize his thoughts.
Do you agree with his analysis?
Study guide and discussion questions for “Job on the Line “ by WILLIAM M. ADLER. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week for the online class).
Here are some discussion questions:
What is the relationship between Molly James and Balbina Duque Granados?
How are their life stories similar?
Do you see similarities between the actions of MagneTek, Archie Sergy, and the mill owners of Patterson around 1913?
What motivated Balbina to work in a maquila?
What is the role of the state (e.g., NAFTA) and the living conditions of the workers in the maquiladora?
Do you think low prices and high profits justify the damage to the environment and the exploitation of workers?
How can the high rates of anencephaly and spina bifida in Brownsville and Matamoros be explained?
Study guide questions:
What is “Job on the Line” about?
What kinds of people do MegnaTek prefer to hire?
What are maquiladors?
Probably the strongest conclusion to be drawn from Adler’s “Job on the Line” is what?
Here are some discussion questions:
What is the relationship between Molly James and Balbina Duque Granados?
How are their life stories similar?
Do you see similarities between the actions of MagneTek, Archie Sergy, and the mill owners of Patterson around 1913?
What motivated Balbina to work in a maquila?
What is the role of the state (e.g., NAFTA) and the living conditions of the workers in the maquiladora?
Do you think low prices and high profits justify the damage to the environment and the exploitation of workers?
How can the high rates of anencephaly and spina bifida in Brownsville and Matamoros be explained?
Study guide questions:
What is “Job on the Line” about?
What kinds of people do MegnaTek prefer to hire?
What are maquiladors?
Probably the strongest conclusion to be drawn from Adler’s “Job on the Line” is what?
Study guide and discussion questions for the globalization lecture on the internet by Anthony Giddens. Be prepared to discuss the discussion questions next week (or on the discussion board for this week for the online class).
Study guide/discussion questions:
Discuss the skeptics and the hyperglobalizers. What is Giddens’s position?
What is the weightless economy?
Discuss the communications revolution.
What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization pushes up, down and sideways?
How does globalization affect our personal lives?
What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization is much more decentered?
Compare the power that nation states have with the power that corporations have.
What is your assessment of Giddens's analysis?
Study guide/discussion questions:
Discuss the skeptics and the hyperglobalizers. What is Giddens’s position?
What is the weightless economy?
Discuss the communications revolution.
What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization pushes up, down and sideways?
How does globalization affect our personal lives?
What does Giddens mean when he says that globalization is much more decentered?
Compare the power that nation states have with the power that corporations have.
What is your assessment of Giddens's analysis?
Midterm 2 study guide for chapter on globalization in Giddens et al.
know about:
social change
writing
capitalism
nation state
Daniel Bell
Alain Touraine
codified knowledge
postindustrialism
postmodernism
Ulrich Beck
weightless economy
skeptics
hyperglobalizers
transformationalists
“new individualism”
cultural imperialism
manufactured risk
World Trade Organization
campaign for global justice
know about:
social change
writing
capitalism
nation state
Daniel Bell
Alain Touraine
codified knowledge
postindustrialism
postmodernism
Ulrich Beck
weightless economy
skeptics
hyperglobalizers
transformationalists
“new individualism”
cultural imperialism
manufactured risk
World Trade Organization
campaign for global justice
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
midterm 1 reminder
You will need a bluebook and a scantron form for this midterm. There will be an in-class essay.
There are no changes to your syllabus, and as indicated on your syllabus, here is the material that will be covered on the exam:
In Giddens et al.: Chapter 1. What is Sociology?
In Massey: 27. “Upward Mobility Through Sport?” by D. Stanley Eitzen
In Massey: 36. MICHAEL POLLAN, America’s National Eating Disorder (from
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
In Massey: 50. JENIFER FLURI AND LORRAINE DOWLER, House Bound: Women’s
Agency in White Separatist Movements
In Massey: 4. “Public Sociologies” by Michael Burawoy
In Massey: 2. From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
In Massey: 3. “What Makes Sociology Different?” by Emile Durkheim
In Massey: 37. “Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries” by Robert Glennon
In Massey: 31. “Uses of the Underclass in America” by Herbert J. Gans
In Massey: 23. “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
In Massey: 38. “The Foundations of Third World Poverty” by John Isbister
In Massey: 29. “The Saints and the Roughnecks” by William J. Chambliss
In Massey: 15. JULIA TWIGG, The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at
Also, you are responsible for all lecture material.
There are no changes to your syllabus, and as indicated on your syllabus, here is the material that will be covered on the exam:
In Giddens et al.: Chapter 1. What is Sociology?
In Massey: 27. “Upward Mobility Through Sport?” by D. Stanley Eitzen
In Massey: 36. MICHAEL POLLAN, America’s National Eating Disorder (from
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
In Massey: 50. JENIFER FLURI AND LORRAINE DOWLER, House Bound: Women’s
Agency in White Separatist Movements
In Massey: 4. “Public Sociologies” by Michael Burawoy
In Massey: 2. From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
In Massey: 3. “What Makes Sociology Different?” by Emile Durkheim
In Massey: 37. “Size Does Count, at Least for French Fries” by Robert Glennon
In Massey: 31. “Uses of the Underclass in America” by Herbert J. Gans
In Massey: 23. “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
In Massey: 38. “The Foundations of Third World Poverty” by John Isbister
In Massey: 29. “The Saints and the Roughnecks” by William J. Chambliss
In Massey: 15. JULIA TWIGG, The Body and Bathing: Help with Personal Care at
Also, you are responsible for all lecture material.
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