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.
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.
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 / CONTRABAND / 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.
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
* “Chevron’s $50 Million Ad Campaign Gets Crushed,” (The Yes Men) Yes Lab. Read story and check out links. And
“The Yes Men Fix the World” (2009) – 1) Play trailer 2) Read story (click “Story” in header)
THE YES MEN
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