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NEW IDENTITIES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
SOCI 833
Dr. Bhavani Arabandi
Office Location: Robinson B 312
Office hours: Thursday 3:00-5:00pm
Phone: 703.993.2127
baraband@gmu.edu
Class Time: T 7:20-10:00pm
Class Location: Engg #1103
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Globalization is a contested term and terrain depending on whose perspective one is taking into account.
Supporters of globalization argue that globalization has a positive impact by reducing poverty around the world.
Critics argue that globalization exacerbates already existing differences and inequalities. What is missing from
the debate, however, is the question of how globalization is creating new and reshaping old identities. In this
seminar we will analyze the role and stake of various players such as the nation state, transnational
corporations, workers, women, and marginalized groups in the global economy, to analyze how their identity is
undergoing a transformation. We will begin by understanding the major debates about globalization, but go
beyond them to examine the interplay between the “global” and the “local” on one another, and how they
change and are changed by this interaction.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Giddens, Anthony. 2003. Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. NY:
Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-94487-2 (pbk)
McMichael, Philip. 2008. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Fourth
Edition. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. ISBN: 978-1-4129-5592-8 (pbk.)
Chua, Amy. 2004. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic
Hatred and Global Instability. NY: Anchor Books. ISBN: 0-385-72186-2 (pbk)
Sassen, Saskia. 1998. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People
and Money. NY: New Press. ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-518-3 (pbk)
Ritzer, George. 2007. The Globalization of Nothing 2. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-4022-1 (pbk)
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
This is a graduate seminar, and students are expected to actively engage with readings and participate in class
discussion. Grading is as follows:
40%
Weekly Responses to Readings:
You are expected to submit 1-2 pages of critique to each week’s readings. Your critique should
be emailed to me no later than Noon of the day of the class so that I can read and orient the
discussion. You are exempt from this requirement on the day that you are presenting.
30%
Three Oral Presentations:
You are responsible to summarize the readings and lead class discussions twice during the
semester. Also, during the last two weeks of the class, you are expected to present your final
paper.
30%
Final Paper:
For your final paper (8-10 page limit) you can select a topic of your choice that corresponds with
the theme of the class. Deadline to email me your final paper is December 15th, 2009.
COURSE SCHEDULE:
1. Introduction (Sept 1st)
2. Debating Globalization (Sept 8th)
 Kellner, Douglas. 2002. “Theorizing Globalization.” Sociological Theory, 20, 3: 285-305.
 Giddens, Anthony. 2003. Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. NY:
Routledge.
 Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. “Disjunction and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Pp 2747 in Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. MN: University of Minnesota
Press.
 Evans, Peter. 2008. “Is an Alternative Globalization Possible?” Politics & Society, 36:271-305.
 Nagar, Richa, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell, and Susan Hanson. 2002. “Locating
Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization.” Economic
Geography, Vol. 78, 3: 257-284.
3. The Death of the Nation State? (Sept 15th )
 Evans, Peter. 1997. “The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of
Globalization.” World Politics, Vol. 50, 1: 62-87.
 Mann, Michael. 1997. “Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?”
Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 4, 3: 472-496.
 Ohmae, Kenichi. 1993 “The Rise of the Region State.” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, 2:78-87.
4. From Development to Globalization (Sept 22nd)
 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. 1996. “The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical
Globalism.” Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 3, 4: 541-564.
 Portes, Alejandro. 1997. “Neoliberalism and the Sociology of Development: Emerging Trends
and Unanticipated Facts.” Pp 353-372 in From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on
Development and Social Change, edited by J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite. MA: Blackwell
Publishing.
 Edelmna, Marc and Angelique Haugerud. 2004. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-21 in The Anthropology
of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary
Neoliberalism. MA: Blackwell Publishing.
5.
From Development to Globalization - contd (Sept 29th)
 McMichael, Philip. 2008. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand
Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
6. Global Economy, Democracy and Identity (Oct 6th)
 Barber, Benjamin. 1995. “Introduction.” Jihad vs. McWorld. NY: Times Books.
 Scholte, Jan Aart. 1996. “The Geography of Collective Identities in a Globalizing World.”
Review of International Political Economy. Vol.3, No. 4: 565-607.
 Chua, Amy. 2004. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic
Hatred and Global Instability. NY: Anchor Books.
*****No class Oct 13th***** (Monday classes meet on Tuesday, and Tuesday classes are canceled)
7. Gender, Migration, and Labor (Oct 20th)
 Sassen, Saskia. 1998. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People
and Money. NY: New Press.
8. Gender, Migration, and Labor - contd (Oct 27th)

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. “Transgressing the Nation-State: The Partial Citizenship and
‘Imagined (Global) Community’ of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers.” Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 26, 4: 1129-54.

Barndt, Deborah. 2001. “On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato’s
Journey.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1/2: 131-143.

Freeman, Carla. 1993. “Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados’s Off-Shore
Pink-Collar Sector.” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 8, 2: 169-186.
9. Work and Workers in the Global Economy (Nov 3rd)
 Smith, Vicki. 1997. “New Forms of Work Organization.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 23:
315-339.
 Vallas, S. P. 1999. “Rethinking Post-Fordism: The Meaning of Workplace Flexibility.”
Sociological Theory 17, 1: 68-101.
 Prasad, M. 1998. “International Capital on “Silicon plateau”: Work and Control in India’s
Computer Industry.” Social Forces, 77 (2): 429-52.
 Smith, V. 1998. “The Fractured World of the Temporary Worker: Power, Participation, and
Fragmentation in the Contemporary Workplace.” Social Problems 45, no. 4: 411-430.
 Hochschild, Arlie. 2000. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes
Work. NY: Owl Books. Ch 14, 15, 16.
10. Culture and Globalization (Nov 10th)
 Holton, Robert. “Globalization’s Cultural Consequences.” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, Vol. 570: 140-152.
 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. 1996. “Globalisation and Culture: Three Paradigms.” Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 31, 23: 1389-1393.
11. Markets and Consumption (Nov 17th)
 Ritzer, George. 2007. The Globalization of Nothing. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
12. After Globalization? (Nov 24th)
 Li, Minqi. 2004. “After Neoliberalism: Empire, Social Democracy, or Socialism?” Month
Review, January: 21-36.
 Gledhill, John. 2004. “ “Disappearing the Poor?” A Critique of the New Wisdoms of Social
Democracy in an Age of Globalization.” Pp. 382-390 in The Anthropology of Development and
Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism edited by
Marc Edelmna and Angelique Haugerud. MA: Blackwell Publishing.
13. Final Paper Presentations (Dec 1st and 8th)
Sociology 833
Schooling, Culture and Inequalities
Professor: Amy Best
Monday 7:25-9:50
Office: Robinson B 327
Office Hours: T 2-4:00 or by appointment
Office telephone: 703-993-1426
email: abest@gmu.edu
In this course students will learn to utilize sociological perspectives in analyzing the various ways schools work as settings where
culture processes and structural inequalities come to bear on the formation of student identities. The class begins with a simple notion:
schools are sites of cultural learning where social identities both inform and are formed in school. The course will examine how
schools both reproduce existing and produce new forms of social inequality and marginalization while also examining how schools are
also setting of social possibility to re-imagine social life, social groups and their relationship to each other and to educational
institutions.
Required Text: (Available at GMU campus bookstore)
David Buckingham (ed) 2008. Youth, Identity and Digital Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
E-reserves: I have selected a series of articles (listed below) that address the intersection of youth, schooling and popular culture.
These articles may be accessed through Fenwick’s online library. They are also available at the reserve desk (2 hour reserve) located
in the Media Library in the Johnson Center.
Please note an (*) indicates the reading is on 2 hr print reserve in JC Media Library ONLY and not as E-reserve.
Accessing articles on E-reserves:
1) Go to GMU home page, 2) click on Libraries 3) click e-reserves 4) click search electronic reserves
5) type course number or instructor name 6) type password: TBA
If you are a student with a disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me and contact the Office of Disability
Resources at 703.993.2474. All academic accommodations must be arranged through that office .
Assigned Articles and book chapters
Giroux, Henry and Roger Simon. 1989. “Popular Culture as a Pedogogy of Pleasure and Meaning.” Popular Culture, Schooling and
Everyday Life. Giroux, H. and R. Simon. (eds.)Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey.
Willis, Paul 1990. “Everyday Life and Symbolic Creativity.” Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the
Everyday cultures of the Young. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kim, Rebecca 2004. “Made in the USA: Second Generation Korean American Campus Evangelicals.” In J. Lee
and M. Zhou. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge
Hughey, Matt 2008 “Brotherhood or brothers in hood? Debunking the ‘educated gang’ thesis as black fraternity
and sorority slander.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol. 11: No. 4 (443-463).
Subedi, Binaya 2008 “Contesting Racialization: Asian immigrant teachers’ critique and claims of teacher
authenticity.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol . 11, No 1 (57-70).
Mac an Ghaill, Martin. 1994. “Local student culture of masculinity and sexuality” in The Making of Men:
Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling. Buckingham: Open University Press .
Nancy Lopez. 2003. “Urban High Schools: The Reality of Unequal Schooling.” in Hopeful Girls, Troubled
Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. New York: Routledge.
Lesko, Nancy. 1988. The Curriculum of the Body: Lessons from a Catholic High School.” Becoming Feminine: The Politics of
Popular Culture. eds., Roman, Leslie G. and Linda Christian-Smith. London: The Falmer Press.
Akom, A.A. 2008 “Ameritocracy and infra-racial racism: racializing social and cultural reproduction theory in the twenty-first
century.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol 11, No. 3 (205-230).
Foley, Douglas 2005. “Performance Theory and Critical Ethnography: Studying Chicano and Mesquaki Youth.” In Performance
Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity. B. Alexander, G. Anderson and B. Gallegos (eds.) Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Weis, Lois 1990. “Within the School” Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-industrializing Economy. New
York Routledge.
John Fiske, Bob Hodge and Graeme Turner. 1987. “Out of Work” in Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture. Boston: Allen
and Unwin.
Giroux, Henry. 2009 “Education and the Crisis of Youth: Schooling and the Promise of Democracy.” The
Educational Forum 73 (8-18).
Fine, Michelle. 2007 “Contesting Research: Rearticulation and “thick” democracy as political projects of
method.”
in Ideology Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education. L. Weis, C. McCarthy, and G. Dimitradis (eds.).
New York: Routledge
McRobbie, Angela 1993. “Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity.” Cultural
Studies 7 (406-425).
*Nayak, Anoop and Mary Jane Kehily. 2008 “Gender Relations in Late-Modernity: Young Femininities and the
New Girl Order.” Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and Femininities. Palgrave Macmillan.
Anyon Jean. 2007. “Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Re-theorizing Reproduction”
in Ideology Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education. L. Weis, C. McCarthy, and G. Dimitradis (eds.).
New York: Routledge
Cross, Gary 2004. “Gremlin Child: How the Cute Became the Cool” in The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous
Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lesko, Nancy 2001. “Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century.” in Act Your Age: A Cultural
Construction of Adolescence. New York: Routledge Falmer
Moje Elizabeth Birr and Caspar Van Helden 2005 “Doing Popular Culture: Troubling Discourses about Youth.”
in Reconstructing “the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol, Body. J. Vadeboncoeur and L. Patel Stevens. (eds.) New
York: Peter Lang.
Devine, John 1996. “Foucault, Security, Guards and Indocile Bodies.” In Maximum Security: The Culture of
Violence in Inner-City Schools . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fine, Michelle. 1993 “Sexuality, Schooling and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire” in
Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race and Gender in United States Schools. L. Weis and M. Fine (eds.) Albany:
State University of New York Press.
* Hunter, Lisa. 2005.”Who gets to Play?” Kids, Bodies and Schooled Subjectivities.” in Reconstructing “the
Adolescent: Sign, Symbol, Body. J. Vadeboncoeur and L. Patel Stevens. (eds.) New York: Peter Lang.
Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer. 2009 “Spaces of Difference: The Contradictions of Alternative Educational Programs”
Educational Studies, Vol 45 (280-299).
Gonick, Marnina. “From Nerd to Popular? Refiguring School Identities and Transformation Stories.” Seven
Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood. C. Mithcell and J. Reid Walsh (eds.) New
York: Peter Lang.
Chin, Elizabeth 2001. “Feminist Theory and the Ethnography of Children’s Worlds: Barbie in New Haven
Connecticut.” In Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century. H. Schwartzman (ed.) Westport,
CT: Bergin and Garvey
Best, Amy 2000. “Prom Promises: Rules and Ruling: Proms as Sites of Social Control.” In Prom Night: Youth
Schools and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
Walkerdine, Valerie 1990.”On the Regulation of Speaking and Silence: Subjectivity, class and gender in
contemporary Schooling.” In SchoolGirl Fiction. London: Verso.
Tsolidis, Georgina and Alex Kostogriz. 2008 “After Hours schools as core to the spatial politics of ‘in
betweeness” in Race, Ethnicity and Education Vol 11, No 3 (319-328).
Juarez, Brenda. 2008. “The Politics of Race in two languages: an empirical qualitative study” in Race, Ethncity
and Education. Vol 11, No 3 (231-249).
Griffin, Christine 1993. “The Threat of Unstructured Free Time: Young People and Leisure in the 1980s.” in
Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence in Britain and America. London: Polity Press.
Thornton, Sarah. 1994. “Moral Panic, the Media and British Rave Culture.” In Microphone Fiends: Youth
Music, Youth Culture. A. Ross and T. Rose (eds.) New York: Routledge.
Hebdige, Dick 1979. “Style as Intentional Communication” Subculture: The Meaning of Style London:
Methuen.
Walkerdine, Valerie, Helen Lucey and June Melody. 2001. “Doing Well in School: Success and the Workingclass Girl” in Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class. NY: NYU Press.
Lipsitz George 1994. “The Hip Hop Hearings” Generations of Youth Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America in M.
Willard and J. Austin. New York: NYU Press.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 2007. “Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect.” Sociology of Education: A Critical
Reader. A. Sadovnik (ed.). NY: Routledge.
Lew, Jamie. 2007. “The Burden of Acting Neither White nor Black: Asian American Identities and Achievement in Urban School.” In
Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader. A. Sadovnik (ed.). NY: Routledge.
Smith, Penny. 1999. “Rethinking Joe: Exploring the Borders of Lean on Me” in Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Reading,
Constructing, Connecting T Daspit and J. Weaver (eds) New York: Garland Publishing
Course Requirements and Grading Policy:
Participation
Participation is essential for facilitating class discussion of readings, lecture materials and for the ongoing development of your
understanding of the course content. My evaluation of your participation will be based on how often you contribute to class and the
extent to which your participation reflects a knowledge gained from readings and previous discussion. It is expected that you will have
read and are prepared to talk about the assigned readings for that day (20%).
Each student will be responsible for leading class discussion for one class meeting. Expect to sign up the first week.
Reading Essays
Students will be responsible for completing (3) 2 page reflection papers that engage questions and themes relating to weekly readings
(40%).
Research project
Students will be responsible for completing a 15-20 page paper examining a topic relating to schooling, popular
culture, and youth. Students will be expected to provide a 10-15 minute presentation on their project at the end
of the semester. A detailed handout outlining the assignment will be provided in class. (40%)
Reflective reading essays (4)
Research Paper
Research project presentation
Participation
30%
40%
10%
20%
If you are a student with a disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me and contact the Disability Resource
Center (DRC) at 993-2474. All academic accommodations must be arranged through the DRC.
I expect all students to act in accordance with the University’s policy on academic honesty. Failure to do so will result in a failing
grade for an assignment and judicial action.
8/31
Week 1.
Youth, Schooling, and Popular Culture
Introduction to Course
Reading due:
Giroux, Henry and Roger Simon. 1989. “Popular Culture as a Pedogogy of Pleasure and Meaning.” Popular
Culture, Schooling and Everyday Life. Giroux, H. and R. Simon. (eds.)Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey.
Willis, Paul 1990. “Everyday Life and Symbolic Creativity.” Common Culture: Symbolic Work
at Play in the Everyday cultures of the Young. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Smith, Penny. 1999. “Rethinking Joe: Exploring the Borders of Lean on Me” in Popular Culture and Critical
Pedagogy: Reading, Constructing, Connecting T Daspit and J. Weaver (eds) New York: Garland Publishing
9/7
Week 2.
No class (Labor Day)
9/14
Week 3.
Constructing Adolescence
Reading due:
Cross, Gary 2004. “Gremlin Child: How the Cute Became the Cool” in The Cute and the Cool:
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Lesko, Nancy 2001. “Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century.” in Act Your Age: A
Cultural Construction of Adolescence. New York: Routledge Falmer
Moje Elizabeth Birr and Caspar Van Helden 2005 “Doing Popular Culture: Troubling Discourses
about Youth.” in Reconstructing “the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol, Body. J. Vadeboncoeur and L.
Patel Stevens. (eds.) New York: Peter Lang.
Chin, Elizabeth 2001. “Feminist Theory and the Ethnography of Children’s Worlds: Barbie in
New Haven Connecticut.” In Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century. H.
Schwartzman (ed.) Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey
9/21
Week 4.
Framing Youth, Reading Popular Culture
Reading due:
John Fiske, Bob Hodge and Graeme Turner. 1987. “Out of Work” in Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular
Culture. Boston: Allen and Unwin.
Thorton, Sarah. 1994. “Moral Panic, the Media and British Rave Culture.” In Microphone
Fiends: Youth Music, Youth Culture. A. Ross and T. Rose (eds.) New York: Routledge.
Hebdige, Dick 1979. “Style as Intentional Communication” Subculture: The Meaning of Style
London: Methuen.
McRobbie, Angela 1993. “Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of
Femininity.” Cultural Studies 7 (406-425).
Lipsitz George 1994. “The Hip Hop Hearings” Generations of Youth Youth Cultures and History in TwentiethCentury America in M. Willard and J. Austin. New York: NYU Press.
9/28
Week 5.
Framing School: Perspectives on Inequality and Social Reproduction
Reading due:
Weis, Lois 1990. “Within the School” Working Class Without Work: High School Students in a De-industrializing
Economy. New York Routledge.
Anyon Jean. 2007. “Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Re-theorizing
Reproduction” in Ideology Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education. L. Weis, C.
McCarthy, and G. Dimitradis (eds.). New York: Routledge
Walkerdine, Valerie 1990.”On the Regulation of Speaking and Silence: Subjectivity, class and
gender in contemporary Schooling.” In SchoolGirl Fiction. London: Verso.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. 2007. “Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect.” Sociology of
Education: A Critical Reader. A. Sadovnik (ed.). NY: Routledge.
10/5
Week 6.
Schooling Space, Contested/ing Sites of Learning
Reading due:
Tsolidis, Georgina and Alex Kostogriz. 2008 “After Hours schools as core to the spatial politics
of ‘in betweeness” in Race, Ethnicity and Education Vol 11, No 3 (319-328).
Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer. 2009 “Spaces of Difference: The Contradictions of Alternative
Educational Programs” Educational Studies, Vol 45 (280-299).
Best, Amy 2000. “Prom Promises: Rules and Ruling: Proms as Sites of Social Control.” In Prom
Night: Youth Schools and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
Griffin, Christine 1993. “The Threat of Unstructured Free Time: Young People and Leisure in
the 1980s.” in Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence in Britain and
America. London: Polity Press.
(Note class will be held Tuesday)
10/13
Schooling Identities and Inequality
Week 7.
Reading due:
Hughey, Matt 2008 “Brotherhood or brothers in hood? Debunking the ‘educated gang’ thesis as
black fraternity and sorority slander.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol. 11: No. 4 (443-463).
Subedi, Binaya 2008 “Contesting Racialization: Asian immigrant teachers’ critique and claims of
teacher authenticity.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol . 11, No 1 (57-70).
Akom, A.A. 2008 “Ameritocracy and infra-racial racism: racializing social and cultural reproduction theory in the
twenty-first century.” Race Ethnicity and Education Vol 11, No. 3 (205-230).
Foley, Douglas 2005. “Performance Theory and Critical Ethnography: Studying Chicano and Mesquaki Youth.” In
Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity. B. Alexander, G. Anderson and
B. Gallegos (eds.) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
10/19 Schooling Identities and Inequality
Week 8.
Reading due:
Nancy Lopez. 2003. “Urban High Schools: The Reality of Unequal Schooling.” in Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys:
Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. New York: Routledge.
Lew, Jamie. 2009. “The Burden of Acting Neither White nor Black: Asian American Identities and Achievement in
Urban School.” In Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader. A. Sadovnik (ed.). NY: Routledge.
Walkerdine, Valeries, Helen Lucey and June Melody. 2001. “Doing Well in School: Success and
the Working-class Girl” in Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class.
NY: NYU Press.
10/26 Schooling Identities and Inequality
Week 9.
Reading due:
Juarez, Brenda. 2008. “The Politics of Race in two languages: an empirical qualitative study” in
Race, Ethncity and Education. Vol 11, No 3 (231-249).
Kim, Rebecca 2004. “Made in the USA: Second Generation Korean American Campus
Evangelicals.” In J. Lee and M. Zhou. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity.
New York: Routledge
Gonick, Marnina. “From Nerd to Popular? Refiguring School Identities and Transformation
Stories.” Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood. C. Mithcell and
J. Reid Walsh (eds.) New York: Peter Lang.
11/2
Bodies in school
Week 10.
Reading due:
Mac an Ghaill, Martin. 1994. “Local student culture of masculinity and sexuality” in The
Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling. Buckingham: Open University Press .
Fine, Michelle. 1993 “Sexuality, Schooling and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of
Desire” in Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race and Gender in United States Schools. L. Weis
and M. Fine (eds.) Albany: State University of New York Press.
* Nayak, Anoop and Mary Jane Kehily. 2008 “Gender Relations in Late-Modernity: Young
Femininities and the New Girl Order.” Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and
Femininities. Palgrave Macmillan.
11/9
Week 11.
Bodies in School
Reading due:
Devine, John 1996. “Foucault, Security, Guards and Indocile Bodies.” In Maximum Security:
The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Hunter, Lisa. 2005.”Who gets to Play?” Kids, Bodies and Schooled Subjectivities.” in
Reconstructing “the Adolescent: Sign, Symbol, Body. J. Vadeboncoeur and L. Patel Stevens.
(eds.) New York: Peter Lang.
Lesko, Nancy. 1988. The Curriculum of the Body: Lessons from a Catholic High School.” Becoming Feminine: The
Politics of Popular Culture. eds., Roman, Leslie G. and Linda Christian-Smith. London: The Falmer Press.
11/16
Week 12.
Youth and New Media Culture
Reading due:
David Buckingham (ed) 2008. Youth, Identity and Digital Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pp. 1-94
11/23
Week 13.
Youth and New Media Culture
Reading due:
David Buckingham (ed) 2008. Youth, Identity and Digital Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pp 95- 205.
11/30
Schooling and Democratic Practice
Week 14.
Reading due:
Giroux, Henry. 2009 “Education and the Crisis of Youth: Schooling and the Promise of
Democracy.” The Educational Forum 73 (8-18).
Fine, Michelle. 2007 “Contesting Research: Rearticulation and “thick” democracy as political
projects of method.” in Ideology Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education. L. Weis, C.
McCarthy, and G. Dimitradis (eds.). New York: Routledge
12/7
Week 15.
12/14
Exam week
Student Project presentations
Student Project presentations
Exam period
Final papers due during exam period
Syllabus may be subject to revision