DSOC 7300 - Sociology of Global Change

(SBA)

Spring. 3 credits.

P. McMichael.

Analyses of social change and development are increasingly sensitive to global context. They include the sociology of the world economy as a multilayered entity anchored in an evolving international division of labor and the system of nation states, and the sociology of transnational political, economic, and cultural processes (e.g., food regimes, commodity chains, diasporas and transnational identities, the new regionalism, and transnational social movements). The seminar examines the substantive and methodological questions generated by research on these global processes, including questions of relevant units of analysis, situating global process in local events and subjectivities and vice versa, and examining the ways in which national structures and cultures interact with global structures and cultures.