SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
FALL 2001
Judi
Kessler
Office:
Wallace LL #3
Office
Hours: MWF11-12 & by Appt.
Tel.:
2165
e-mail:
jkessler@monm.edu
Course Description:
In this participatory class, we will trace the
story of development at the international level, with particular attention to
its global roots and dimensions since World War II.
Our geographical focus will be the “Third
World”, which comprises about 80 percent of the global population.
Traditionally the concept of development
has been closely linked with the modernization and industrialization of agrarian
societies. Consequently,
development is often equated with the narrower idea of “economic
development.” In this class we will take a broader view of development, as
understood to be human development.
As we will learn, economic development has not translated into human
development for much of the world’s population.
According to the United Nations, the basic objective of development
is to enlarge the range of people’s choices to make
development more democratic and participatory. These choices should include
access to income and employment opportunities, education and health, and a clean
and safe physical environment. Each individual should also have the opportunity
to participate fully in community decisions and to enjoy human, economic, and
political freedoms.
United Nations Human
Development Report, 1990
The course begins with an introductory historical
overview, including a review of important – but often difficult to define -
concepts and terms, such as “development”, globalization”, and the
“Third World.” We will then
discuss the two major theories of development, Modernization
and Dependency, as well as the Commodity
Chains model of global production; an understanding of these frameworks will
help us analyze what follows. The
remainder of the course will be devoted to study and discussion of the
post-World War II development project
and the globalization project of the
last 20 years. In addition,
throughout the course we will examine the consequences of development and
globalization for women in the Third World.
We will finish up by taking a second look at the national and global
development projects, including the diverse anti-globalization movements around
the world.
Course Evaluations:
Your final grade will be
determined as follows:
First Exam
20%
Second Exam
20%
Third (final) Exam 20%
Class Project
30%
Attendance/
Participation
10%
Exams will not be cumulative; each exam will cover the course materials
from the previous 5 weeks. The
class project will be a paper/presentation devoted to an issue of development
relevant to this course. The paper
and presentation will be a group effort, due at the end of the semester.
You will receive an individual grade for your contribution to the project
(20%) and a group grade (10%) for the project as a whole.
We will discuss the final project in detail early in the semester.
Active participation in class discussions is a course requirement.
Students are expected to attend all class meetings, complete the assigned
readings prior to class, and actively participate in class discussions.
If it becomes apparent during class discussions that readings are not
being completed on time, occasional, unannounced quizzes will be given.
Excessive absences and late arrivals for any reason, along with poor
class participation, will have a negative affect on your final grade.
Always bring copies of the
week’s assigned readings with you to class.
Special Needs:
Students with special needs
should arrange to meet with the professor the first week of class.
Required Readings:
1.
McMichael.
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (2nd Ed)
2.
Lewellen. Dependency
and Development: An Introduction to the Third World
3.
Kelly, et al. Gender,
Globalization, and Democratization
4.
Occasional handouts in class
Academic Integrity:
In
writing course papers, students must document all pages and/or ideas that are
borrowed from any source. Direct quotations must be placed within quotation marks.
Papers must represent research conducted for the course in which they
were assigned and no other; it is not appropriate to submit a paper that has
already been or will be submitted for another course.
Finally, papers must be the products of the student’s own work.
Papers (or sections of papers, in the case of the group project) written
by anyone other than the student, including those purchased from commercial
research services, are unacceptable. Students
found to have engaged in any form of academic dishonesty will fail the course.
“Academic
dishonesty may result not only in failure in the course, but in dismissal or
expulsion from the College. Incidents of academic dishonesty will be reported to
the Vice President for Academic Affairs.”
http://www.monm.edu/academics/Registrar/academic_programs.htm
READING SCHEDULE
(Please note: With the exception of Week 1, each
week’s assigned readings are to be completed before class meets on Thursday)
DSC: Development and Social
Change: A Global Perspective
DD: Dependency and
Development: An Introduction to the Third World
GGD: Gender, Globalization,
& Democratization
INTRODUCTION:
GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Week 1 – Aug. 28-30
pp xxvii – xlii, DSC
(Development and the Global Marketplace)
C. 1, DD (Does the Third World Exist?)
In-class Video: Who’s Getting Rich and Why
Aren’t You”
Week 2 – Sept. 1-7
C. 3, DD (Modernization and Dependency: Theories of Development)
In-class Video: “Get Up, Stand Up”
THE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT
Week 3 – Sept. 7-13
C. 2, DD (The Creation of the Third World: A Brief History)
C. 1, DSC (Instituting the Development Project)
Week 4 – Sept. 14-20
C. 2, DSC (The Development Project in Global Context)
Week 5 – Sept. 21-27
C. 4, DD (…The Domestic Economy)
FIRST EXAM:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 (changed to 10/2)
THE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT UNRAVELS
Week 6 – Sept. 28-Oct. 4
C. 3, DSC (The Global Economy Reborn)
Week 7 – Oct. 5-11
C. 4, DSC (International Finance and the Rise of Global Managerialism)
C. 5, DD (Between Debt and the
Deep Blue Sea…)
In-Class Video:
“The Debt Police”
Week 8 – Oct. 12-18
C. 10, GGD (Globalization, Democratization, and Gender Regimes)
In-class Video: “God of Our Fathers”
SUBMISSION
OF PROJECT TOPIC AND STUDENT’S PROJECT ASSIGNMENT
THE GLOBALIZATION
PROJECT
Week 9 – Oct. 19-25
C. 5, DSC (Instituting the Globalization Project)
Week 10 – Oct. 26 - Nov. 1
C. 7, DD (So Many People, So Little Time)
C. 8, GGD (Japan and the Global Sex Industry)
SECOND EXAM:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 (changed to 11/6)
Week 11 – Nov. 2-8
C. 6, DSC (The Globalization Project: Structural Instabilities)
In-class Videos: “Behind the Seams”, “The
Price of Profit”
RETHINKING
DEVELOPMENT
Week 12 – Nov. 9-15
C. 8, DD (In Search of Sustainable Development…)
C. 7, DSC (The Globalization Project and its Counter-Movements)
In-class Videos: “Race to Save the Planet: In the
Name of Progress”, “The Seattle Syndrome”, “The Sixth Sun: Mayan
Uprising in Chiapas”
Week 13 – Nov. 16-22
C. 9, DD (Death Squads and Disappearances…)
C. 13, GGD (Democratization: Reflections on Gendered Dislocations in the
Public Sphere)
In-class Videos: “Blood for Honor” and
“Defending our Daughters: The Rights of Women in the World”
Week 14 – Nov. 23-29
C. 9, GGD (Political Spaces, Gender, and NAFTA)
C. 11, GGD (Transforming Governance Agendas…)
Group Presentations
Week 15 – Nov. 30 – Dec. 6
C. 10, DD (Toward the Twenty-First Century: The Third World in the New
World Order)
C. 8, DSC (Whither Development?)
Group Presentations
FINAL EXAM, PAPERS DUE:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1:00PM
**PLEASE NOTE!**
ANY
PART OF THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME BY THE PROFESSOR
IT IS THE STUDENT’S
RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP INFORMED ON SYLLABUS CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER
CELL PHONES AND AUDIBLE
BEEPERS MUST BE TURNED OFF DURING CLASS