SOC 0862: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
MWF 1:00-1:50 Gladfelter Hall 247 Temple University Fall 2013
Professor: Ben Marcus
Office: Gladfelter Hall 739
Phone: 215 204-7760
Office hours: MWF 12:00–12:45
(or by appointment)
E-mail: bmarcus@temple.edu
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will introduce you to the study of development and globalization. The primary questions we will address are: What is development? What is globalization and what is its relationship with development? How have the processes of development produced global inequalities among regions, nations, races, genders, and classes? Is there a “developing” world and a “developed” world? If so, what are their differences and how do they relate with each other? How have some developing countries become more developed than others? What roles do corporations, the state, and civil society play in the processes of global development? How is global development interrelated with the physical environment, inequalities of consumption, and the environmental crisis? How do people resist the inequalities and perceived injustices of global development through global social movements? How are we interconnected economically, politically, culturally, socially, and ecologically with people in the developing world? What are the possible futures of development? To address these issues, our focus will be on the developing world, our scope will be global and long-term, our methodology will be historical-comparative, and our perspective will be social-scientific, interdisciplinary, and critical.
This course fulfills the General Education Global/World Society (GG) requirement or the Core
International Studies (IS) requirement.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
To understand the historical trajectory of global development from colonialism to the present
To understand the fundamental empirical realities of the developing world
To understand the strengths and weaknesses of the basic theoretical perspectives on global development
To understand the underlying theories, substance, and outcomes of the primary development policies of the developing world
To understand the roles of the developed world in shaping the societies and policies of the developing world
To understand the major effects of development and globalization on social inequalities among nations, regions, classes, genders, and races
To understand the roles of corporations, states, and civil society in shaping global development and social change
To understand the interrelations of the physical environment, global development, and social inequalities
To acquire an appreciation of the interrelationships between our lives and those of people in developing countries
To develop skills of analysis and communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking
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CLASSROOM FORMAT
Our classroom experience will be a participative encounter. We will engage the course material in the classroom through participative lectures, discussions, small group learning, and films.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
You are required to complete all assignments on time; attend all classes; arrive before time for class to begin and remain until dismissed; pay attention in class and participate in class activities; and complete three hourly quizzes, one take-home midterm exam, and one take-home final exam.
Readings: We have one required book, available at the Temple University Main Campus
Bookstore and on reserve at Paley Library:
Rapley, John. 2007. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World . 3 rd ed. Boulder: Lynne Reinner.
All other required readings are posted on Blackboard under Content/Readings.
Grading: Your final grade will be determined by: this formula:
Attendance 15 percent*
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
15 percent
15 percent
15 percent and this grade schedule:
A 93–100
A− 92–90
B+ 89–87 B 86–83
B− 82–80
C+ 79–77 C 76–73
C− 72–70
D+ 69–67 D 66–63 D− 62–60
Midterm Exam 20 percent
Final Exam 20 percent
F < 60
*Your attendance grade may count more than 15 percent. See Attendance below.
Attendance: Your attendance grade will be determined by your number of unexcused absences.
I will excuse absences only due to illness, university-sponsored event, mandatory religious observance, or genuine emergency. For your absence to be excused, you will need to e-mail me about it before your absence or no more than 24 hours after your absence. I may require documentation; if so, you must present it promptly. Your attendance grade will be equal to 100 minus the square of the number of your unexcused absences as presented in the following table:
Unexcused
Absences
Attendance
Grade
0
100
1
99
2
96
3
91 subtracted from your final grade.
4
84
5
75
6
64
7
51
8
36
9
19
10
0
11 12
–21 –44 …
There will also be a subjective measure of class participation which may be added to or
…
You may not use electronic devices, including laptops, tablets, cell phones, etc, during class.
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Please turn your cell phones off. Anyone using a cell phone or other electronic device during class will receive an unexcused absence for that day. You may use an electronic device in this class only if the Office of Disability Resources and Services certifies that you require it.
Quizzes: The quizzes will consist of multiple-choice and true-false questions based on our readings and classwork (lectures, discussions, films, etc.). The material covered by the quizzes will not be cumulative; however, knowledge of previous material may be assumed. Quiz 1 will include questions on the Course Requirements of the syllabus. The Course Schedule below specifies the dates and course material for each quiz. You may take a make-up quiz or a quiz at an alternate time only if you cannot take the quiz at its scheduled time because of documented illness or other emergency.
Exams: You will work outside of class to produce two papers: one that addresses two questions for the midterm and another that addresses two questions for the final. The two questions for the midterm and the two questions for the final are presented below. Each paper must be wordprocessed, no more than six pages long, double-spaced, in 12-point font, and with one-inch margins all around. Your answers must be in your own words and must use the course material
(readings and classwork) to explain the questions to your peers who are not familiar with the course material. Citations and references are not necessary. Your papers are due in digital form to SafeAssign on Blackboard and in hardcopy to me by the dates and times specified in the
Course Schedule. (SafeAssign is a program that checks for plagiarism; see Plagiarism below.)
Your exams will be graded primarily on content (how well you explain the questions to your peers who are not familiar with the material of this course) and secondarily on writing style
(clarity, concision, grammar, word choice, punctuation, etc.). Late papers will lose 10 points per class. For help with writing style, see Temple’s Writing Center
( http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/ ) and the document “Writing Guidelines” posted on
Blackboard under Content.
The two questions for the midterm are:
1. Explain modernization, dependency, and world-systems theories. (What are their arguments?
What are their standpoints, that is, who is making the arguments and what are their interests and/or assumptions? How are these theories alike and different? How do they differ in terms of unit of analysis and policy implications? What are the main criticisms of these theories?)
2. Explain the theory and main criticisms of what Rapley calls the new political economy. What are neoliberal policies, how are they based on the new political economy, how did they come to be dominant world-wide in development practice, and what have been their primary results in the developing world?
In answering the questions for the midterm, you do not need to consider course material after
10/4.
The two questions for the final are:
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1. Explain how the processes of development and globalization have affected men and women differently, thus reinforcing gender inequalities in the developing world.
2. Explain the environmental limits to development and the environmental inequalities between the developed and developing worlds that have been created by the processes of development and globalization.
Plagiarism: From the Temple Undergraduate Bulletin
( http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/responsibilities_rights/responsibilities/responsibilities.shtm
):
Temple University believes strongly in academic honesty and integrity. Plagiarism and academic cheating are, therefore, prohibited. . . . Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person's labor, another person's ideas, another person's words, another person's assistance. . . . Failure to cite borrowed material constitutes plagiarism.
Undocumented use of materials from the World Wide Web is plagiarism. The penalty for academic dishonesty can vary from receiving a reprimand and a failing grade for a particular assignment, to a failing grade in the course, to suspension or expulsion from the university.
Do not copy someone else’s work and present it as your own. I encourage you to work together on the exams (and to prepare for the quizzes), but the writing must be your own.
Blackboard : For information on Blackboard and AccessNet accounts, see: http://www.temple.edu/cs/bb/qrg.html
. Our syllabus and course readings are posted on
Blackboard. I will often use PowerPoints in class, and they will be posted on Blackboard after they are presented in class. If you have difficulty opening the documents posted on Blackboard on your home computer, you should be able to open them at any Temple lab. If you still have problems, contact the Computer Help Desk: their website: http://www.temple.edu/cs/helpdesk/default.asp
; their e-mail address: help@temple.edu
; their phone number: 215 204–8000.
E-mail is a surer and quicker way of contacting me than by phone. Please do not reply to e-mails sent out to the class as a whole. In in the first line of your e-mail, include your name, the class name, and its meeting time. Include an appropriate subject in the subject line. Check your e-mail regularly in case of changes to the course schedule or other announcements.
SPECIAL ACCOMODATIONS
This course is open to all students who meet the academic requirements for participation. If you need any special accommodations for this course, please contact Disability Resources and
Services (100 Ritter Annex, 215 204–1280) as soon as possible and discuss the matter with me privately.
ACADEMIC RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Temple University policy on Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities can be accessed here: http://policies.temple.edu/PDF/99.pdf
.
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COURSE SCHEDULE
Complete the readings before class on the indicated day.
All readings except by Rapley are posted on Blackboard.
FOUNDATIONS
M 8/26 Course Syllabus
W 8/28
Todaro and Smith (2011): “Introducing Economic Development: A Global
Perspective,” pp. 2–7, 10, 12–23
F 8/30 Todaro and Smith (2011): “Comparative Economic Development,” pp. 37–56
M 9/2 Labor Day Holiday
W 9/4 Todaro and Smith (2011): “Comparative Economic Development,” pp. 56–71
COLONIALISM AND NEOCOLONIALISM
F 9/6 Lewellen (1996): “The Creation of the Third World: A Brief History”
M 9/9 Stavrianos (1981): “Neocolonialism in Latin America,” pp. 177–78 and 183–95 and
Smith (2009): “The Politics of Neo-Colonialism and Dependency,” pp. 56–64
W 9/11 Chang (2008): “The Double Life of Daniel Defoe: How Did the Rich Countries
Become Rich?”
THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
F 9/13 Rapley, Chap. 2: “Development Theory in the Postwar Period”
M 9/16
Rapley, Chap. 3: “State-Led Development in Practice”
W 9/18 McMichael (2012): “The Development Project: International Framework”
THE MODERNIZATION, DEPENDENCY, AND WORLD-SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVES
F 9/20 So (1990): “The Modernization Perspective”
M 9/23
So (1990): “The Dependency Perspective” pp. 91–98 and 106–09; “The Classical
Dependency Studies” pp. 110–15 and 131–34; and “The New Dependency
Studies” pp. 135–37 and 150–57
W 9/25 So (1990): “The World-System Perspective,” pp. 169–73, 176–78, and 180–86
F 9/27 QUIZ 1 On material from 8/26 through 9/25
NEOLIBERALISM
M 9/30 Rapley, Chap. 4: “The Neoclassical Answer to Failure”
W 10/2 Rapley, Chap. 5: “Neoclassical Reform in Practice”
F 10/4
Rapley, Chap. 6: “Development Theory in the Wake of Structural Adjustment” and
Rapley, Chap. 7: “The End of the Developmental State,” pp. 155–56 and 171–77
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR
M 10/7 Fröbel et al. (1980):
The New International Division of Labour , pp. 1–15 and 365–75
W 10/9 Standing (1989): “Global Feminization through Flexible Labor,” pp. 1077–90
F 10/11 MIDTERM EXAM due by the beginning of class
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THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT
M 10/14 Chang (2008): “The Lexus and the Olive Tree Revisited: Myths and Facts about
Globalization”
W 10/16 Dicken (2011): Global Shift , pp. 1–2, 14–16, 24–27, 31–34, 47–48, and 56–64
F 10/18 Dicken (2011): Global Shift , pp. 170–71, 432–45, and 476–79
M 10/21 Babb (2005): “The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment,” pp. 199–202 and
209–17
W 10/23 Robinson (2005): “Globalisation and Democracy: Is It Possible to Forge a
Transnational Popular Project?” pp. 105–110 and 112–17 and Serra and Stiglitz
(2008): The Washington Consensus Reconsidered , pp. xiii, xiv, 4–8, and 57–60
F 10/25 Scanlan (2012): “Hunger and the Political Economy of the World Food System”
M 10/28 Bello (2013): “A Primer on Wall Street Meltdown,” pp. 43–55 and “Europe’s Tragic
Spiral,” pp. 89–100
W 10/30 QUIZ 2 on the material from 9/30 through 10/28
RACE, DEVELOPMENT, AND GLOBALIZATION
F 11/1 Winant (2001): The World Is a Ghetto , pp. 1–2, 37–39, 42–48, 305–08
M 11/4 Mills (2007): “Global White Supremacy”
W 11/6
Bacon (2012): “Mexico’s Great Migration” and Bacon (2008): “Living Under the
Trees”
GENDER, DEVELOPMENT, AND GLOBALIZATION
F 11/8 Sen and Grown (1987): “Gender and Class in Development Experience,” pp. 23– 31 and Moghadam [1999]: “Gender and the Global Economy,” 135–46
M 11/11
Lorber (2005): “Post-Colonial Feminism”
THE ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND GLOBALIZATION
W 11/13 Oreskes (2004): “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” and World Wide
Fund for Nature (2012): Living Planet Report 2012 Summary
F 11/15 Speth (2008): “Modern Capitalism: Out of Control”
M 11/18
Faber [2008]: “The Unfair Trade-Off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological
Hazards”
MILITARY INTERVENTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND GLOBALIZATION
W 11/20 Kinzer (2007): Overthrow , pp. 1–6, 30–34, 300–302, and 315–322
F 11/22 Bacevich (2010): Washington Rules , pp. 11–34
RESISTANCE AND ALTERNATIVES
M 11/25 Langman (2012): “Globalization from Below”
W 11/27 International Forum on Globalization (2002): “Alternatives to Economic
Globalization: A Better World Is Possible”
F 11/29 Thanksgiving Holiday
M 12/2 Schumacher (1973): “Buddhist Economics”
W 12/4 QUIZ 3 on the material from 10/30 through 12/2
F 12/13 FINAL EXAM due by 12:30
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Faber, Daniel. 2009. “The Unfair Trade-Off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological
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Lorber, Judith. 2005. Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics , 3 rd
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