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CHUM304
Postmodern Modernization: Progress, Development, and Modernity
CHUM304 SP
Crosslistings: ANTH304, SOC 304
| Section | Class Size | *Available | Times | POI | Prereq |
|---|
| 1 | 21 | 8 | Times: .T..... 1:10PM-4:00PM; | No | No |
*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for
the Blue Add phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous
phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration.
(Last Updated on Tue Aug 10 05:00:21 EDT 1999
)
This course offers a survey of the main currents in
development thinking, the idea of progress and
modernization. It explores the theoretical and ideological
presuppositions of recent debates on development. The
course is organized around a central question, whether
progress for the Third World emulates European experience
in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided
into four general themes: the natural history of
development thinking and the genealogy of the idea of
progress; race, gender, class, and culture in
development thinking; globalization of capital:
global village or a fragmented world; the limits of
development: modernity and its discontents. The course is
designed as an upper division class for students with some
background in social theory and political economy.
MAJOR READINGS
Selections from Karl Marx, Max Weber, and
Emile Durkheim.
Alain Lipietz, 1987, MIRAGES AND MIRACLES, London: Verso
Bjorn Hettne, 1990, DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND THE THREE WORLDS,
New York: Longman Development Studies
David Harvey, 1989, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY,
Cambridge: Blackwell
Aihwa Ong, 1987, SPIRITS OF RESISTANCE AND CAPITALIST
DISCIPLINE: FACTORY WOMEN IN MALAYSIA, Albany: SUNY Press
Beneria & Roldan, THE CROSSROADS OF CLASS AND GENDER:
INDUSTRIAL HOMEWORK, SUBCONTRACTING AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS
IN MEXICO CITY, Chicago: Chicago University Press
Serge Latouche, 1993, IN THE WAKE OF THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY,
AN EXPLORATION OF POST-DEVELOPMENT, London: Zed Press
Frederique Apffel-Marglin & Stephen A. Marglin (eds.),
DOMINATING KNOWLEDGE: DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, AND
RESISTANCE, Oxford: Clarendon Press/WIDER
Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash, 1994, REFLEXIVE
MODERNIZATION, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Weekly one-page paper. Final
research paper, 15-20 pages.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless
preregistered students attend the first class meeting or
communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first
class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE:
Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the
Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Ghamari-Tabriz, B
- Times: .T..... 1:10PM- 4:00PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 0, Fr: 0
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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