Globalization as Risk and Opportunity 3700-MSNS-24-GRO
This course is designed to engage students in a discussion of the origins and development of global social and economic systems and to seek links with recent social phenomena, including mobility and migration.
Specifically, we will discuss together issues such as theories of development (economic and social), applications of particular development programs, historical breakthroughs and crises, and case studies of particular social changes. The seminar will be interactive: it will combine discussion of proposed readings and materials, lecturer presentations and student presentations. Our collective work will focus on questions such as the following: What are the mechanisms of social change? Is there one globalisation or many? What risks and opportunities does globalisation create?
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
K_W01 - Knows and understands in depth the key sociological theories on mobility and migration.
K_W10 - Understands the basic determinants and dynamics of globalisation and is aware of how it is linked to migration.
K_U04 - Is able to select and use a variety of theoretical concepts within the disciplines of sociology, law, politics, demography, cultural studies to interpret social and spatial mobility.
Assessment criteria
- Preparation of an introduction or a presentation (on a topic agreed with the lecturers concerning a given theme for the class).
- A short essay (5-6 pages in length) on the literature discussed in class.
- Preparation and active participation in class discussions.
Absences:
- It is possible to have 2 absences;
- In case of 3 or 4 absences, it is possible to make up for them after consultation;
- In case of 5 absences there is no possibility for obtaining course credit.
Bibliography
Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James. 2012. Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers.
Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James. 2019. The Narrow Corridor. States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. New York: Penguin Publishers.
Acemoglu, Daron. 2021. Redesigning AI. Work, Democracy, and Justice in the Age of Automation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Burawoy, Michael. 2009. The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Carrier, James. 1995. Gifts and Commodities. Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700. London and New York: Routledge.
Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V. 2019. Good Economics for Hard Times. New York: Public Affairs.
Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V. 2011. Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. New York: Public Affairs.
Easterly, William. 2009. The White Man’s Burden. Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much and So Little Good. New York: Penguin Books.
Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Brooklyn, N.Y: Melville House.
Hann, Chris M., and Keith Hart. 2011. Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique. Cambridge: Polity.
Humphrey, Caroline. 2002. The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism. Culture & Society after Socialism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Mandel, Ruth, and Caroline Humphrey, eds. 2002. Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism. Oxford: Berg.
Mazzucato, Mariana. 2018. The Value of Everything. Making and Taking in the Global Economy. London/New York: The Penguin Press.
Piketty, Thomas. 2020. Capital and Ideology. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. (albo coś innego)
Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press.
Raworth, Kate. 2017. Doughnut Economics. Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. London: Random House.
Rodrik, Dani. 2011. The Globalization Paradox. Why Global Markets, States and Democracy Can’t Coexist. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, Vernon L., Wilson Bart J. 2019. Humanomics. Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thaler, Richard H., Sunstein Cass R. 2008. Nudge. Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Wilk, Richard R, and Lisa Cliggett. 2007. Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
Wilkis, Ariel. 2017. The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. London: The Penguin Press.
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