Spring 2024

SOCIOL 127 001 - LEC 001

Development and Globalization

Edwin K Lin, Carmen Brick

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

Tu, Th

08:00 am - 09:29 am

Dwinelle 145

Class #:20287

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Sociology

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 8

Enrolled: 204

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 212

Waitlist Max: 0

Open Reserved Seats:

2 reserved for Sociology Majors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 7 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

A comparative analysis of socio-economic and political change, focusing on the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offers both a basic descriptive understanding of processes of change in these countries and an introduction to major theoretical perspectives on development and globalization.

Class Description

Development and globalization are terms that frequently come up in political debates over the economy, rising unemployment, poverty and inequality to name just a few. But, what do these words mean? These terms, or at least the phenomena that they represent, are contested. In this course we will consider the various debates over development and globalization from post-WWII to the present, how the global economy and relationships between and within nations have changed during this period, the actors involved in shaping the nature of this change, and the social and environmental impacts of the prevailing way of conceiving of and structuring development and globalization.