Winter 2004

This information effective for Winter 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Sociology

[SOCY-015] [SOCY-162]

15. World Society: Introduction to Comparative and Historical Sociology

Note: This Syllabus from Winter 2003

Instructor: W. L. Goldfrank
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 459-4461; e-mail: wally@ucsc.edu

Course Description:

This course aims to introduce students to macro-sociology, the study of large-scale, long-term social change. We shall try to strike a balance between three levels of discourse: facts and information, ideas and interpretations, and theories and models. We shall explore the historical development of the modern world, focusing on institutional transformations, global interdependence, cultural tensions, and struggles against the dislocations and inequalities these processes entail. We shall examine the ways in which the role different countries play in the world economy largely determines the average citizen's quality of life. We shall pay particular attention to two phenomena: (1) social revolution, a hallmark of the 18th-20th centuries; and (2) waves of globalization, the third of which is the hallmark of our time.

Requirements:

1. Class and section attendance, and weekly section exercises.
2. Readings:
   

   To be purchased at Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust St.
   

   J. Goldstone, ed., Revolutions (3rd ed. 2003)
   P. McMichael, Development & Social Change (2nd ed. 2002)

   Sociology 15 Reader [to be downloaded from E-res (code: WORLDSOC)]

3. Papers: two typed, double-spaced papers, each 5-7 pages long, and based on the classes and readings, are due on the following dates:

   Jan. 22: Compare and contrast Marx and Weber's approaches to social change; how does Wallerstein combine elements of both?

   Feb. 19: Compare two cases of revolution on at least two of the following dimensions: village organization, class struggle, economic change, state breakdown, international competition.

4. Final exam: In-class final exam, Tues., March 18, 4 p.m.
   

   Possible essay questions to be distributed March 10.
   Exam will consist of twenty identifications and one or two essays.

5. Grades and evaluations will be based on class participation as well as the quality of written work.

   Readings should be completed before each class.

   There will be no incompletes, except in cases of authenticated medical or family emergencies.

Syllabus

162. Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions

(Also offered as Latin American and Latino Studies 194M)

Note: This Syllabus from Winter 2003

Instructor: W. L. Goldfrank
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 459-4461; e-mail: wally@ucsc.edu

Course Description:

We shall study the causes, processes, and outcomes of selected twentieth-century revolutions, from Zapata to the Zapatistas, as it were. We shall pay most attention to the causes, some attention to the outcomes, and a little attention to the processes. We shall primarily consider three cases where revolution occurred (Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua), and secondarily three where it did not (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Peru).

Students will be expected to buy the following texts at The Literary Guillotine (204 Locust Street) as well as a set of readings available through E-res (code: LAREV).

• N. Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion
  
• S. Eckstein, Back From the Future
  
• J. Goodwin, No Other Way Out
  
• T. Wickham-Crowley, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America

Course requirements include frequent class participation, one class presentation, and a 15-page paper on a topic to be negotiated with the instructor. This paper may be fashioned into the Senior Exit Requirement for Latin American and Latino studies majors.

Syllabus

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