FALL 2000
This information effective for Fall 2000.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: Professor Craig Reinarman
Fall 2000
1999 Office Hours: Mon & Wed 11-12:30
Department of Sociology 303 College 8
Phone: 459-2617
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results." - Herman Melville
"A barbarian is a person who thinks that the customs of his [or her] tribe and island are the laws of nature." - George Bernard Shaw
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Archbishop Helder Camara
Anthony Giddens, Introduction to Sociology, 2nd Edition (W. W. Norton, 1996)
Garth Massey, editor, Readings for Sociology, 2nd Edition (W. W. Norton, 1996)
Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear (Basic Books, 1999)
[All these books are available at the Literary Guillotine bookstore, 204 Locust St.,
in downtown Santa Cruz, as well as the Baytree Bookstore on campus.]
1. The Sociological Imagination and Sociological Research
Theme: Learning to think sociologically
Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Giddens, Ch. 1, What Is Sociology?
Giddens, Ch. 2, Asking and Answering Sociological Questions
Giddens, Ch. 3, Global Change and Modern Societies
Lazarsfeld, What is Obvious?
Glassner, Introduction: Why Americans Fear the Wrong Things
2. Culture and Socialization
Theme: Social organization and the self in the modern world
Giddens, Ch. 4, Culture, Socialization, and the Individual
Sorenson, Growing Up …
Kluckholm, Queer Customs
Geertz, Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Giddens, Ch. 5, Interaction and Everyday Life
Sidel, Mixed Messages
Goffman, Role Distance in Surgery
Giddens, Ch. 6, Conformity, Deviance, and Crime
3. The Structuring of Privilege and Power - I
Theme: economic class and life chances
Sklar, Imagine a Country
Giddens, Ch. 9, Stratification, Class, and Inequality
Gans, The Positive Functions of Poverty
Mantsios, Media magic: Making Class Invisible
Liebow, Men and Jobs
Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks
4. The Structuring of Privilege and Power - II
Theme: gender and ethnicity, sexism and racism
Giddens, Ch. 8, Gender and Sexuality
Deckard, Sexual Stereotypes as Political Ideology
Messner, Masculinities and Athletic Careers
Enloe, Beyond Steve Canyon & Rambo: Feminist Histories …
Hochschild, The Second Shift: Employed Women …
Giddens, Ch. 10, Ethnicity and Race
Rodriguez, On Becoming a Chicano
Massey and Denton, American Apartheid
Iyer, The Global Village Finally Arrives
5. Social Institutions: Religion, Family, Education
Theme: How social organizations shape human behaviors
Giddens, Ch. 14, Religion in Modern Society
Bellah et al., Religious Individualism and Fundamentalism
Blumenthal, Christian Soldiers
Giddens, Ch. 15, Marriage and the Family
Stack, Domestic Networks
Gupta, Love, Arranged Marriage, and Indian Social Structure
Giddens, Ch. 16, Education, Popular Culture, and the Mass Media
Aronowitz, Colonized Leisure, Trivialized Work
6. Social Structure and Political-Economy
Theme: The tensions between capitalism and democracy
Giddens, Ch. 12, Government, Political Power, and War
Reich, As the World Turns
Isbister, The Foundations of Third World Poverty
Hechinger, Why France Outstrips the U.S. in Nurturing its Children
Feagin and Parker, The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit
Giddens, Ch. 13, Work and Economic Life
Thompson, … A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line
Ide and Cordell, Automating Work
Kasarda, The Jobs-Skills Mismatch
7. Social Change: Movements and Modernity
Theme: The future is made, not just predicted
Giddens, Ch. 17, Urbanism and Population Patterns
Dasgupta, Population, Poverty & the Local Environment
Giddens, Ch. 18, Revolutions and Social Movements
Staggenborg, The Pro-Choice Movement
Giddens, Ch. 19, Global Problems and Ecological Crisis
Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld
To pass this course, you will have to attend all lectures and complete all readings. You will learn more and do better on the exams if you do the readings prior to lectures.
Attendance and participation in Discussion Sections are crucial means of learning the material and are therefore mandatory (about 20% of the grade or narrative evaluation).
There will be two, short, multiple-choice mid-term exams (20% total) and a comprehensive final exam (40%), all covering lectures as well as readings.
Beyond section participation and the 3 exams, each student will write a five-page essay (20%), double-spaced, which uses the sociological concepts and theories from readings and lectures to analyze the cases examined in Barry Glassner's provocative new book, The Culture of Fear. You should begin reading this book right away and plan to finish it before the middle of the quarter. A guide to the core questions you will be expected to address in this essay will be handed out in discussion sections later. Students are strongly encouraged to exchange drafts of their essays with a "study buddy" of their choosing for comments and editing before turning them in. These essays are due no later than Wednesday, November 24th, in class before lecture.
Instructor: Professor Julie Bettie
Fall 2000
Office: 220 College Eight
Class Meetings: T TH 6:00-7:45
Objectives and Content
In this course we will explore the social and historical character of "the family." We will establish the peculiarity of "the modern Western family" system by placing it in historical and cross-cultural perspective. We will focus on p ower relationships both within and beyond "the family," with attention to the impact of social processes such as deindustrialization, immigration, colonialism, and systems of institutionalized inequality along multiple axes. We will analyze the cultural politics of "family values" concluding with a focus on the "postmodern family condition" which is the condition of politicized contest over the legitimacy of contemporary family diversity in the United States.
Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985) by Deborah Gray White
Minority Families in the United States: A Multicultural Perspective (1994) by Ronald L. Taylor
The Second Shift (1989) by Arlie Hochschild
Women's Work and Chicano Famlies (1987) by Patricia Zavella
In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age (1996) by Judith Stacey
These books will be available for purchase at the Literary Guillotine at 204 Locust Street in downtown Santa Cruz. Articles assigned for the course are listed below.
There will be a midterm, a final, and a family history paper. All of the required course assignments must be completed in order to receive a passing grade.
WEEK ONE
What is "The Family"? Images, Ideals, and Myths
WEEK TWO - FOUR
Families of the Past: Premodern Families and The Making of Modern Families
WEEK FIVE-SIX
Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
WEEK SEVEN
The Unmaking of "the Modern Family" or The Postmodern Family Condition
WEEK EIGHT - TEN
Family Values: Whose Family? Whose Values?
Required Readings: Articles
"Conceptualizing 'Family'" by Bonnie J. Fox and Meg Luxton
"Family Theory After the Big Bang" from Family and the State of Theory by David Cheal, 1991.
"Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes toward an Understanding of Ideology" by Rayna Rapp from Rethinking the Family edited by Thorne and Yalom.
"Families of Strangers" from A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values by John Gillis, 1996.
"Domesticity" by Nancy F. Cott
"Putting Mothers on the Pedestal" by Maxine Margolis
"Breadwinning and American Manhood, 1800-1920" from Fatherhood in America: A History by Robert L. Griswold.
"Breadwinning on the Margin: Working-Class Fatherhood, 1880-1930" from Fatherhood in America: A History by Robert L. Griswold.
"Our Mothers' Grief: Racial Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Famlies" by Bonnie Thornton Dill in Journal of Family History, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1988.
"The Good Father: Reconstructing Fatherhood" by Lynn Segal
"Look Who's Talking About Work and Family" by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers from Ms. July/August, 1996.
"Undocumented Latinas: The New 'Employable Mothers'" by Grace Chang.
"Life without Father" by David Blankenhorn in USA Weekend, Feb 24-26, 1995.
"Where's Papa?" by David Poponoe in Utne Reader, Sept-Oct, 1996.
"The Father Fixation: Let's get real about American families" by Judith Stacey in Utne Reader, Sept-Oct, 1996.
"The God Squad: The Promise Keepers fight for a man's world" by Nancy Novosad in The Progressive, August 1996.
"A Match Made in Heaven: Lesibian leftie chats with a Promise Keeper" by Suzanne Pharr in The Progressive, August 1996.
"Think Single Mother, Think Poverty" from Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty by V. Scheir.
"Family, Race, and Poverty" by Maxine Baca Zinn in Rethinking the Family edited by Thorne and Yalom.
"The Downwardly Mobile Family" from Falling from Grace by Katherine Newman, 1988.
"Family Values and the Invisible Working Class" by Lillian Rubin in Working USA, Sept/Oct 1997.
"Stuck in the Middle with You" by David Futrelle in In These Times, July 26, 1993.
"Dan Quayle Was Right" by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1993.
"Divorce Harms Children" from Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, 1990.
"Divorce May Not Harm Children" from Growing up Divorced: A Road to Healing for Adult Children of Divorce by Diane Fassel, 1991.
"Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry" by Thomas B. Stoddard from OUTLOOK National Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, no. 6, Fall 1989.
"Since When is Marriage a Path to Liberation?" by Paula L. Ettelbrick from OUTLOOK National Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, no. 6, Fall 1989.
"The Politics of Gay Families" by Weston
"Understanding Gay Marriage" from Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights by Richard Mohr, 1994.
Instructor: Ben Crow
Fall 2000
Office hours: 1:50pm-3:10pm M,W,F. College 8, Room 320
Phone: 459 5503 (office); 650 367 8272 (home); 650 245 6769
(mobile)
e-mail: bencrow@cats.ucsc.edu
WINTER 1999 SYLLABUS. SOME READINGS WILL CHANGE FOR FALL 2000.
This course will examine some of the pressing issues relating to global inequality and international development, including: hunger and vulnerability; East Asian development and financial crisis; environment and industrial development; colonial and postcolonial ideas of progress. It will use these issues as a starting point for the discussion of the history of development and underdevelopment, the rise of agriculture and industry, and for theories which attempt to explain that history. These theories help to provide a grasp of a strange world in which the world's 3 richest individuals have more assets than the gross domestic product of the world's 48 poorest countries.
Three groups of ideas on development and underdevelopment will be the primary focus of the course: i) the 'Washington Consensus', ii) dependency ideas, iii) Marxian ideas. The Washington Consensus, also known as Market Friendly and Structural Adjustment ideas, is the ruling global consensus on development. It describes the theoretical foundations of the policies propagated by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Dependency ideas grew out of Latin American experiences, they explore the consequences of colonialism and the makings of the global system, and provide one alternative to the Washington Consensus. A second alternative school of development ideas derives from the tradition of Karl Marx, and applies the analysis of social class dynamics to the understanding of development and underdevelopment.
One book we will be reading (Kiely 1995) argues that development theories have reached an impasse, that is, they suffer debilitating theoretical weaknesses and fail to explain the contemporary world. We live, nevertheless, in a time when thinking about these issues has never been more exciting. We will also be looking at some ideas from feminism and post-structural analysis, and will be able to assess the extent to which the impasse in development theory can be overcome.
Allen, T., & Thomas, A. (1992). Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Oxford University Press. [Allen and Thomas 1992]
Gupta, A. (1998). Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the making of modern India. Duke UP. [Gupta 1998]
Kiely, R. (1995). Sociology and Development: The Impasse and Beyond. London: UCL Press. (out of print - so included in the Readings) [Kiely 1995]
Readings - on reserve in McHenry Library.
There will be a final, a mid-term and a project.
The project will be completed in pairs. Each pair will take one developing country, preferably from the following list, and examine the main themes and events in development since World War II:
India, Brazil, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Tanzania, Kenya, Indonesia.
Project deadlines are due on the Friday of each of the following weeks: 4 bibliography, 6 draft, 8 final.
Week 1 Development I
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 1 Crow 'Understanding famine and hunger'
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Wilson Ch 2 'Diseases of poverty'.
Activity: geography and levels of development.
Week 2 Development II
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Wield Ch 3 'Unemployment and making a living'.
Esteva, G. (1993). Development. In Sachs (Eds.), Development Dictionary (pp. 6-25).
[Kiely 1995] Ch 1 'Impasse summarized'
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 15 Pearson. Gender matters in development.
Video: gender matters.
Week 3 How did colonialism change the world?
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 8 Bernstein, et al, 'Capitalism and the expansion of Europe'.
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 9 Bernstein et al 'Labour regimes and social change under colonialism'. Activity, discussion: Debate on colonialism
Franke, A G 1966. The development of underdevelopment. Monthly Review, September. Selections.
Warren, W. 1985 'Capitalism: pioneer of development'. Selections.
Activity: Activity on Frank and Warren readings.
Week 4 Marxian and Neomarxian theories
[Kiely 1995] Ch 2 'Marx and development'.
[Kiely 1995] Ch 3 'Modernization, dependency and development'.
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 18 Bujra. Ethnicity and class: the case of East Africa's Asians.
Discussion of project bibliographies.
Week 5 How do agrarian societies change?
[Gupta 1998] Ch 1 'Agrarian populism in the development of a modern nation'.
[Gupta 1998] Ch 2 'Developmentalism, state power, and local politics in Alipur'.
Lenin, V. I. (1982 (1899)). The differentiation of the peasantry. In J. Harriss (Eds.), Rural Development: theories of peasant economy and agrarian change London: Hutchinson.
Week 6 Agrarian question and differentiation
Bernstein, H. (1994). Agrarian classes in Capitalist Development. In L. Sklaar (Eds.), Capitalism and Development Routledge.
[Gupta 1998] Ch 3 'Indigenous knowledges: agronomy'
[Gupta 1998] Ch 4 'Indigenous knowledges: ecology'.
Discussion of project drafts.
Week 7 How do societies industrialize?
[Allen and Thomas 1992] Ch 20 Tim Allen. Prospects and dilemmas for industrializing nations.
[Kiely 1995] Ch 5 'The impasse and Third World industrialization'.
Hewitt, T 1992 'Brazilian Industrialization' in Hewitt, Johnson and Wield (eds) Industrialization and Development Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edwards, 1992 'Industrialization in South Korea' in Hewitt, Johnson and Wield (eds) Industrialization and Development Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Activity: Analysis of paths to industrialization.
Week 8 Industrialization after the 1997 crisis
Page, J 1994 'East Asian Miracles' World Development 22,4.(Reader 1).
Wade, R. (1996). Japan, the World Bank and the art of paradigm maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in perspective. New Left Review, 217, 3-36.
Wade, R., & Veneroso, F. (1998). The gathering world slump and the battle over capital controls. New Left Review, (231).
Discussion of project findings.
Week 9 Can states adjust structures?
Mackintosh (1992). Questioning the state. In M. Wuyts,M. Mackintosh, & T. Hewitt (Eds.), Development and Public Action
[Kiely 1995] Ch 6 'The politics of the impasse I: states and markets in the development process'.
Messkoub, Mahmood 'Deprivation and Structural Adjustment' in Wuyts et al Development Policy and Public Action Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Debate: The developing world needs more markets.
Week 10 Beyond the impasse?
[Gupta 1998] Ch 5 'Peasants and global environmentalism: a new form of governmentality?'
Johnson, H. (1992). Women's empowerment and public action: experiences from Latin America. In Mackintosh and Wuyts (Eds.), Development Policy and Public Action.
[Kiely 1995] Ch 7 'The politics of the impasse II: challenging Third Worldism' and Ch 8 'Conclusion'.