INT-GE 2803 Fall, 2014 Professors: Rene Arcilla () 246 Greene Street Philip Hosay (pmh2@nyu.edu) Suite 300 T.A.s: Jon Friedman (j.friedman@nyu.edu) Grace Pai (gracepai@gmail.com) INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Books to Be Purchased: Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age Anthony Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism Edward W. Said, Orientalism Alvin Y. So, Social Change and Development Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century 9/8 International Education: World Views and Modernity Read: Donald Johnson, “Academic and Intellectual Foundations of Teacher Education in Global Perspectives,” in Richard Altschuler, ed., The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists; Gene Sperling, “Towards Universal Education,” Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct, 2001); Pew Global Project and Attitudes, “The Great Divide: How Westerners And Muslims View Each Other” (2006); Andrew Kohut and Richard Wike, “All the World’s a Stage,” The National Interest online (2008). 9/15 Marx and the Shaping of Human Consciousness Read: Giddens, Capitalism, pp. 1-64; Frank E. Manuel, A Requiem for Karl Marx,” Daedalus, (Spring, 1992). Recommended Reading: Raymond Aron, "Karl Marx," Main Currents in Sociological Thought, v. 1, and Raymond Aron, "Emile Durkheim," & “Max Weber,” Main Currents in Sociological Thought, v.2. 9/22 Durkheim and Functionalism Read: Giddens, Capitalism, 65-119; Mark S. Cladis, “Durkheim's Individual in Society: A Sacred Marriage?” Journal of the History of Ideas (Jan. - Mar., 1992). 9/29 Weber and Social Action Read: Giddens, Capitalism, 119-185; Steven Seidman, “Modernity, Meaning, and Cultural Pessimism in Max Weber,” Sociological Analysis (Winter, 1983)
INT-GE 2803 Fall, 2014 10/6 American Modernization Theory Read: So, Social Change and Development, chapters 1 and 2 ; Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism, entire; Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation, pp. 1-98; Raymond Grew, “More on Modernization,” Journal of Social History (Winter, 1980); S. N. Eisenstadt, “Multiple Modernities,” Daedalus (Winter 2000). 10/13 No Classes Scheduled 10/20 Mid-Term Examination 10/27 Modernization and Dependency Theory Read: Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, pp. 1-120; So, Social Change, chps. 5-7; Theotonio dos Santos and Laura Randall, “The Theoretical Foundations of the Cardoso Government: A New Stage of the Dependency-Theory Debate,” Latin American Perspectives (January, 1998). 11/3 The World-System Read: Wallerstein, Modern World-System, intro, chps 1-4, 7; So, Social Change, chps. 8-10; 11/10 Modernization and Cultural Particularism Read: Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge, chps. 3, 7; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, chp. 10; Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker, “Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values,” American Sociological Review (Feb., 2000). 11/17 Marxism, Functionalism, and Culture Read: Wolf, Peasant Wars, Preface, chps. 1, 4-5, Conclusion; Edward Said, Orientalism, Part I; Ussama Makdisi, “Ottoman Orientalism,” The American Historical Review (Jun., 2002); Ilan Kapoor, “Capitalism, culture, agency: Dependency versus postcolonial theory,” Third World Quarterly (2002). 11/24 UNESCO – Education for All (PAPERS DUE) Read: EFA Global Monitoring Report, “Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters,” UNESCO (2009). 12/1 Eurocentrism and Western Exceptionalism Read: Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient, chps. 1, 5, 6, 7; Jack Goldstone,“The Wealth of Nations,”and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, “ReOrient,” Journal of World History (Spring, 2000).