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Modernity and Globalization

Modernity and Globalization. Gurminder K. Bhambra. Revision Lecture. Week 19. Exam Revision . Context What background knowledge do you need to answer the question? Historical events? Standard sociology explanations? Critiques? Debates What are the key debates associated with this topic?

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Modernity and Globalization

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  1. Modernity and Globalization Gurminder K. Bhambra

  2. Revision Lecture Week 19

  3. Exam Revision • Context • What background knowledge do you need to answer the question? • Historical events? • Standard sociology explanations? • Critiques? • Debates • What are the key debates associated with this topic? • What are the arguments for? Against? • Conclusion • What do I think about this topic?

  4. What is Modernity? • Historical background • Political and Economic revolutions as indicated by the French and American Revolutions and industrialisation • Sociological explanations • Modernization theory • Multiple modernities • Postcolonial critique • Debates / controversies • Have we always been modern? • Is modernity a linear, diffusion-ist phenomenon or a global one? • Does modernity have global conditions of emergence?

  5. Institutions of Modernity • The French Revolution and the Modern State • How does the French Revolution contribute to the idea of becoming modern? • What is the relationship of the French Revolution to the modern state? • Why is the state significant to modernity? • Authority and Power – the French and American Revolutions • How does political participation change? • What is the significance of this new form of political participation to modernity?

  6. Institutions of Modernity • Industrial Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic • How does Weber understand capitalism? • Why is Protestantism important for Weber? • Industrial Capitalism and Alienation • How does Marx understand capitalism? • What’s the difference between Marx and Weber?

  7. Sociological Understandings of Modernity • From Modernization Theory to Multiple Modernities • What is modernization theory? • What are the problems with modernization theory? • What are multiple modernities? • How does the theory of multiple modernities differ? • Beyond Multiple Modernities • What are the critiques of multiple modernities theories? • How effective are these critiques?

  8. Modernity as Global • The Modern State as an Imperial State • Why is it important to understand the modern nation-state as being an imperial state? • Democracy – Inclusion and Exclusion • How does a wider perspective alter what we might understand about the emergence of democracy? • Industrialisation – Slavery and Colonialism • What is the relationship of slavery and colonialism to the industrial revolution?

  9. Sociological Understandings of Globalisation • Why Globalisation Now? • What is globalisation? How is it defined? When did it start? • Why has it suddenly become important? • Cosmopolitanism • What is cosmopolitanism? • What is its relationship to globalisation? • Globalisation as Connections • What does it mean to understand globalisation as connections? • What does it mean for sociology?

  10. Global Connections • Trade, Global Economics, and Social Movements • What is the relationship of social movements to global trade and economics? • How does looking at the concerns of social movements alter the ways in which we might understand global trade and justice? • The Transnational Family • What are transnational families? • What is their relationship to globalisation? • Universal Human Rights • What is the relationship of human rights to modernity? • Why are they significant?

  11. Exam Questions • Read the questions – take your time – read them carefully • Choose the questions you want to answer • Plan your answer • Answer the question asked, specifically • Answer 3 questions • The quality of your answer counts for more than the quantity of words • Think about the question • Answer the question • Write legibly and neatly • Answer the question

  12. Assessed Essay • Title • Keep your focus on the question throughout the essay • Introduction • What are you looking at, why are you looking at it, how are you going to look at it • Main body • Clear, distinct sections, made up of paragraphs, each dealing with one theme; might use sub-headings • Provide links between sections; give your essay direction • Use evidence to back up your claims; reference • Conclusion • Reflect on the arguments you have put forward • Consider the implications of what you have written • Draw these points into a final concluding sentence

  13. References • To give information, to illustrate a point, to present a particular perspective, to present an argument or counter-argument • Support your argument with more than one source • Select examples from a range of sources • Be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence used • Why reference? • To show that you have researched your material • To acknowledge the source of the information used • To distinguish between your ideas and the ideas of others • To provide support to your ideas

  14. References • Harvard system • The social scientists of the nineteenth century mostly operated with an idea of modernisation that endowed historical development with coherence (Iggers 1997). • The general understanding of the modern world was thus premised on the idea of modernization as ‘a process of the global diffusion of Western civilisation and its key institutions’ (Wittrock 1998: 19). • According to Bendix (1967), modernization theory rested on three related assumptions.

  15. Bibliography • Book • McLennan, Gregor 2006. Sociological Cultural Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan • Article • Wittrock, Bjorn 1998. ‘Early Modernities: Varieties and Transitions’, Daedalus: Early Modernities summer 127 (3): 19-40 • Chapter in an Edited Book • Spivak, GayatriChakrabarty 1990. ‘Post-structuralism, Marginality, Postcoloniality and Value’, in Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan (eds) Literary Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity Press • Website • Dimitrijevic, Nenad 2006. ‘Moral responsibility for collective crime’, Eurozinehttp://eurozine.com/pdf/2006-07-05-dimitrijevic-en.pdfaccessed 23 June 2007

  16. Academic Conduct • Plagiarism is when you intentionally pass off someone else’s work as your own, be it from a published source or from the web or from another essay (your own or somebody else’s!) • If you’re using words, phrases, ideas from someone else – reference them

  17. Websites • Academic writing course http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/usp/wsc/cm4a1 • Undergraduate skills programme http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/usp/recipes • On referencing http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/help/guidespublications/bib_cit/ • On academic writing http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/celte/languagesupport/aez/resources/

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