SOC 279: Globalization
Final exam review sheet
Nicole Hala
Spring 2011
The midterm exam will consist of two sections:
I.
Key Terms. You will be asked to define 7 out of 10 terms (in a few sentences or paragraph)
selected from the list below. Each item will be worth 8 points, for a total of 56 points. The more
thorough the response, the better. If the term is a general concept (e.g., boom-bust cycle), you
should provide empirical (i.e., real-world) examples in your answer (e.g., the 90s dot-com/tech
bubble or the 2006 housing bubble).
II.
Short responses. You choose 4 out of 6 questions and answer them in one or more paragraphs.
Each item will be worth 11 points, for a total of 44 points. Questions will be based on the six
highlighted items below. Responses should focus on the course item referenced in the question, but
they may also draw on other course material (required or recommended, text, audio or video).
Responses will be credited for all knowledgeable references to relevant course material.
Pt. I will cover the following key terms (IN BOLD ITALICS). Pt. II will cover the highlighted material and will
focus on key arguments (i.e., those discussed in class and/or highlighted in the lecture slides):
Economic Globalization
Ch. 24, “Globalism’s Discontents,” (Joseph E. Stiglitz) pp. 208-215.
MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM / DEREGULATION / STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS / SUBSIDY
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, Stiglitz, J., 2010, excerpt (4 pp).
“The Global Pool of Money,” All Things Considered, NPR, 5/9/2008 [in-class].
Video: “Inside Job” (Charles Ferguson, Director) 2010 [excerpts, in-class].
BOOM-BUST CYCLE / GLASS-STEAGALL ACT / ECONOMIC BUBBLE / US HOUSING BUBBLE / DEREGULATION / REVOLVING
DOOR / MORAL HAZARD
Ch. 28, “Has Globalization Gone Too Far?,” (Dani Rodrik) pp. 241-246.
SUBSTITUTABILITY / PROTECTIONISM
Political Globalization: The Demise of the Nation-State?
Ch. 26, “The Declining Authority of States,” (Susan Strange) pp. 228-334.
STATE SOVEREIGNTY
Political Globalization: Organized Crime
Ch. 27, “Global Organized Crime,” (James H. Mittelman) pp. 235-240.
* Audio (mp3): “Charles Bowden Chronicles the “Murder City”: Juarez, Mexico,” interview w/ journalist Charles Bowden,
author of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields, The Takeaway, NPR, 3/23/2010.
SOPHISTICATED FRAUD / TRIADS / CYBERCRIME / DIASPORA
Political Globalization: Gender, Race, and Citizenship
* “Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy,” Ehrenreich, B. and Hochschild, A.R., in Beyond Borders:
Thinking Critically About Global Issues, Rothenberg, P., Ed., 2009.
FEMINIZATION OF MIGRATION / REMITTANCES / CARE DEFICIT
Political Globalization: Reorganizing the World
Ch. 34, “Power Shift,” (Jessica T. Mathews) pp. 287-293.
* Audio-mp3: “Following Up: Haiti Recovery Economics,” Brian Lehrer Show, NPR, 04/02/2010 [excerpt, in-class].
CIVIL SOCIETY / NGO / GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY / TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORK
Cultural Globalization: The Role of Media
Ch. 36, “Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power,” (Monroe E. Price)
pp. 306-310.
* Video: “Social Networks, Social Revolution,” Empire, Al Jazeera English, 2/17/2011 [excerpts, in-class].
TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM / DIASPORA / CARTEL / NET NEUTRALITY
Case study: Latino Immigration and American National Identity
* “The Hispanic Challenge,” Foreign Policy, Huntington, S., March/April 2004.
Cultural Globalization: The Role of Religions
Introduction, pp. 345-347.
Ch. 42, “Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims,” (Charles Kurzman) pp. 353-357.
* “Letter Concerning Toleration,” (John Locke) 1689 [excerpt].
SHARIA / AL QAEDA / TALIBAN / POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION
Ch. 45, “Obedience vs. Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan,” (Shahla Haeri) pp. 370-378.
JIHAD / SHARIA / SECULARIZATION / FUNDAMENTALISM
Ch. 46, “The Christian Revolution,” (Jenkins), pp. 379-386.
LIBERATION THEOLOGY / AFRICAN INDIGENOUS CHURCHES / PENTECOSTALISM
May 12 – Resisting Globalization: Critique and Action
Introduction, pp. 441-443.
*Paul Mason on global youth protest, “Towards a Politics of Solidarity,” Opening Plenary, Left Forum, 3/18/2011.
*"Dubstep Rebellion – The British Banlieue Comes to Millbank,” (Paul Mason) BBC Newsnight, 12/9/1010 [in-class, 4/5].
BANLIEUE / COUNTERHEGEMONIC GLOBALIZATION / GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT / WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
* Interview with Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, (“The Persuaders,” Frontline, 2004).
BRAND
* "Meet the Yes Men, the Political Satirists Who Punked GE," (Tina Dupuy) The Atlantic, 4/22/11.
CULTURE JAMMING / US UNCUT / YES MEN
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