SOCIOLOGY 587

CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Spring 2013
Professor: Claire Decoteau
Course: Wednesdays, 9-11:45am, Room 4102
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1:30-3pm and by appointment
CRN: 30132

Office: 4112 D
Email: decoteau@uic.edu
Phone: (312) 413-3755
Credits: 4

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It
is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected
connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we
started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our
broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up. Albert Einstein
Sociology 587 is the second semester of a year-long course surveying the theories and practices of
sociology. Theory is abstract by definition, but it is meant to provide us with the tools we require to
better understand our empirical worlds. We will analyze the context out of which these theories
developed, the uses to which they have been put, the debates they have sparked, and the influences
they have had on the development of later theories. In other words, we will analyze theory as it is
grounded in the empirical, but also the ways it has inspired new trends and perspectives.
During this semester, we will trace the genealogies of major theoretical approaches in contemporary
sociology. Rather than offering a strict linear history of theory from WWII to the present, the class
follows a looser historical trajectory, focusing on the ways in which the theories build upon and
debate with one another. The course is organized according to epistemological orientations and key
debates. With the earlier readings, I will also provide you with some contemporary applications of
the theoretical approaches. Although we will read but a sample of the field, this class will hopefully
whet your theoretical appetites and provide you with the tools you require to pursue the theories
most relevant to your own interests.
Because it is not organized linearly, I will supplement the readings with orienting lectures which
will provide a landscape for your comprehension of the field. In addition, I will help to point out
the key debates these theories touch on (including debates about identity, epistemology, power,
ideology, structure vs. agency, etc), and discussion of these debates will be an important focus of
our work together throughout the term. The course remains deliberately open-ended; it seeks to
convey a sense of what doing theory is all about rather than envisioning a final theoretical or
practical resolution of all of the questions that will inevitably be raised throughout the term.
Course Requirements
This is a reading-heavy course. We will read, on average, 200 pages of somewhat dense theory
each week. Students are expected to complete all of the readings and come to the class prepared to
actively discuss them. The success of this course will be dependent on quality discussions. In fact,
the bulk of the work for this class will be spent reading and preparing for class each week. If you do
not participate in some way during class discussion or if, for some reason, I think you have not
completed the readings for the class, you will not receive participation credit. (Some of the
readings are very demanding, and the amount of reading is quite substantial, so be sure to plan
plenty of time to prepare for this class each week.)
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Presentations: In addition to the required reading, each student is required to select a particular
week to present supplemental material and relate it back to the required reading. The syllabus
indicates the optional presentation material for each week. You will be given a strict 15 minutes
of class time to provide: 1) a brief summary of the main argument of the monograph; 2) an analysis
of how the book relates to, goes beyond, or challenges the required reading for the week; 3) a
critique of the book or original intervention about the book. Because the other students will be
unfamiliar with the material, handouts are encouraged. In addition, you will be required to submit a
paper on the material the week of your presentation. The paper should be 7-10 pages in length.
You will be graded on the accuracy of your summary, your ability to relate the supplemental
material to the required course material in a clear and analytic fashion, and the originality of your
critique or theoretical intervention. Presentation papers will be due on the Friday of the week you
have presented. If you have chosen a presentation week when there is also a substantive paper due,
you will be given a one-week extension on your substantive paper.
Three Papers: You will be required to write three short (5-7 page) papers for this course. You will
be given a prompt (or a selection of prompts) which will ask you to synthesize the readings from a
particular section. The papers will ask you to comment on the relationships between the
theorists/approaches, the key debates sparked, and/or the major contributions of a particular field of
study. The papers are meant to provide you with training on how to succinctly synthesize a
theoretical field and provide a critical, analytic intervention of your own training that will be
helpful as you look toward your preliminary exams. This semester, the papers will NOT be due at
5pm on the due date.
Discussion Questions: Each week, you are asked to send me 1-2 discussion questions on the
Tuesday before class (by noon). You can ask clarificatory questions, but they need to be specific.
In other words, I dont understand habitus is not an adequate question. Rather, you need to tell me
precisely what is confusing about the concept, and put it in the context of the rest of the reading. In
other words, the questions are meant to help the class move forward in understanding the theories
and/or to promote/instigate discussion of key concepts or debates. These are a required component
of your participation grade.
Grades:
Participation:
Presentation:
Paper 1:
Paper 2:
Paper 3:

20%
20%
20%
20%
20%

Books to Purchase:
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel
Heller-Roazen. Stanford University Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1990. History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Vintage Books.
Reed, Isaac Ariail. 2011. Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the
Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Course Materials: All other readings are available on the course Blackboard site. I would like you
to bring copies of the readings to class.

SYLLABUS
January 16th Introduction and Overview of the Course [96]
Steinmetz, George. 2007. American Sociology before and after World War Two: The
(Temporary) Settling of a Disciplinary Field. Pp. 314-366 in Sociology in America. The
ASA Centennial History, edited by Craig Calhoun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1988. Vive la Crise! For Heterodoxy in Social Science. Theory and Society
17, 5 (Special Issue on Breaking Boundaries: Social Theory and the Sixties): 773-787.
Abbott, Andrew. 2001. The Chaos of Disciplines. Pp. 3-33 in Chaos of Disciplines. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
January 23rd Micro-Sociology: Phenomenology, Social Constructionism, Symbolic
Interactionism and Ethnomethodology [234]
Schutz, Alfred. 1973. Some Leading Concepts of Phenomenology. Pp. 99-117 in Collected
Papers: The Problem of Social Reality, edited by Maurice Natanson. The Hague: Martinus
Nijhoff.
Schutz, Alfred. 1967. The Phenomenology of the Social World. Pp. 32-42 in Contemporary
Sociological Theory, edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff,
and Indermohan Virk. Blackwell.
Mauss, Marcel. 1973. Techniques of the Body. Economy and Society 2, 1: 70-88.
Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the
Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Doubleday. Selection: Pages: 47-92.
Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Society as Symbolic Interaction. Pp. 78-89 in Symbolic Interactionism:
Perspective and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday.
Selection: Pages 17-76.
Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities. Pp. 35-75 in
Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Hacking, Ian. 2000. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Selection: Chapter 1: Why Ask What? (1-35)
Young, Iris Marion. 2005. Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body
Comportment, Motility and Spatiality. Pp. 27-45 in On Female Body Experience:
"Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Ahmed, Sara. 2006. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke
University Press.
2) Goffman, Erving. 1990. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Penguin
Books.

January 30th Structuralism [180]

de Saussure, Ferdinand. 1983/2008. Course in General Linguistics. Chicago: Open Court.
Selections: Part I, Chapters 1-3, 65-98; Part Two, Chapter 4, 110-120.
Lvi-Strauss, Levi. 1974. Structural Anthropology, Volume 1. Translated by Claire Jacobson.
New York: Basic Books. Selections: The Structural Study of Myth, 206-231; Structure
and Dialectics, 232-244.
Lacan, Jacques. 1977. crits, A Selection. New York: Norton. Selections: The mirror stage as
formative of the function of the I, 1-7.
Althusser, Luis. 1970/2000. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an
Investigation). Pp. 100-140 in Mapping Ideology, edited by Slavoj iek. New York:
Verso.
Rubin, Gayle. 1975. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex. Pp. 157210 in Toward an Anthropology of Women, edited by Rayna Reiter. New York: Monthly
Review.
Possible Presentation Materials:
1) Sahlins Marshall. 1981. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press. AND Hacking, Ian. 2000. The Social Construction of
What? Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Selection: Chapter 8: The End of Captain
Cook, (207-223)
2) Niklas Luhmann, 2012. Introduction to Systems Theory. Polity Press.
February 6th

Critical Theory [196]

Marcuse, Herbert. 1968/2000. Philosophy and Critical Theory. Pp. 357-362 in Social Theory:
Roots and Branches, edited by Peter Kivisto. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing.
Horkheimer, Max. 1989. Traditional and Critical Theory. Pp. 171-178 in An Anthology of
Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism, edited by Roger
Gottlieb. New York: Oxford University Press.
Benjamin, Walter. 1936/1968. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Pp.
217-251 in Illuminations. New York: Schocken Book.
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. 1972. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass
Deception. Pp. 120-167 in Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Herder and Herder.
Habermas, Jrgen. 1998. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere. Pp. 359-387 in Between
Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Habermas, Jrgen. 2009. Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Have
an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research. Pp.
138-183 in Europe: The Faltering Project. New York: Polity Press.
Possible Presentation Material:
Habermas, Jrgen. 1991. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry
into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge: MIT Press.

February 13th

Culture and Cultural Analysis [226]

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. Pp. 3-30
in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Pp. 1-7 in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Swidler, Ann. 1986. Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies. American Sociological Review
51, 2: 273-286.
Hays, Sharon. 1994. Structure and Agency and the Sticky Problem of Culture. Sociological
Theory 12, 1: 57-72.
Vaisey, Stephen. 2009. Motivation and Justification: A Dual-Process Model of Culture in Action.
American Journal of Sociology 114, 6: 1675-1715.
de Certeau, Michel. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press. Selections: Introduction, Chapters 3 and 9
Schudson, Michael. 1989. How Culture Works: Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy
of Symbols," Theory and Society 18, 2: 153-180.
Alexander, Jeffrey and Philip Smith. 1993. The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New
Proposal for Cultural Studies. Theory and Society 22, 2: 151-207.
Possible Presentation Materials:
1) Alexander, Jeffrey. 2008. The Civil Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.
2) Wagner-Pacifici, Robin. 1986. Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
3) Hebdige, Dick. 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. New York: Routledge.
** PAPER #1 DUE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15th **
February 20th Postmodernity and Post-Structuralism [142]
Giddens, Anthony. 1990/2008. The Consequences of Modernity. Pp 243-256 in Contemporary
Sociological Theory, edited by Calhoun et al. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Lyotard, Jean-Franois. 1984. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press. Selections: Introduction and 3-41.
Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence. Pp. 396-402 in Social
Theory: Roots and Branches, edited by Peter Kivisto. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing.
Baudrillard, Jean. 2008. Simulacra and Simulations. Pp. 230-234 in The New Social Theory
Reader, Second Edition, edited by Steven Seidman and Jeffrey Alexander. New York:
Routledge.
Derrida, Jacques. 1978. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. Pp.
278-293 in Writing and Difference, translated by Alan Bass. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Derrida, Jacques. 1982. Diffrance. Pp 1-27 in Margins of Philosophy, translated by Alan Bass.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Decoteau, Claire Laurier. 2008. The Specter of AIDS: Testimonial Activism in the Aftermath of
the Epidemic. Sociological Theory 26, 3: 230-257.
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Possible Presentation Material:

1) Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid Modernity. New York: Polity.
2) Derrida, Jacques. 2006. Specters of Marx. New York: Routledge.
February 27th Pierre Bourdieu: Field, Capital and Habitus
Giddens and Sewell on Structure & Agency [191]
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1985. The Genesis of the Concepts of Habitus and Field. Sociocriticism 2, 2:
1124.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. The Forms of Capital. Pp. 241-58 in Handbook of Theory and Research for
the Sociology of Education, edited by J.G. Richardson. New York: Greenwood Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Selection: Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power (159-197).
Bourdieu, Pierre. 2000. Bodily Knowledge. Pp. 128-163 in Pascalian Meditations. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1993. Some Properties of Fields. Pp. 72-77 in Sociology in Question. Sage.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1993. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed.
Pp. 29-73 in The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Cambridge:
Polity Press.
Giddens, Anthony. 1979/2008. Agency/Structure. Pp 231-242 in Contemporary Sociological
Theory, edited by Calhoun et al. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Sewell, William H., Jr. 1992. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation. The
American Journal of Sociology 98, 1 (July): 1-29.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Selections.
2) Bourdieu, Pierre. 1996. The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
March 6th

Michel Foucault, I

Foucault, Michel. 1990. History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Vintage.
Entire Book.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Stoler, Ann. 1995. Race and the Education of Desire. Duke University Press.
March 13th

Michel Foucault, II [153] Guest Instructor: Andy Clarno

Foucault, Michel. [1975] 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York:
Vintage. Selections: Docile Bodies (135-169); Panopticism (195-228).
Foucault, Michel. 1976/2003. Society Must Be Defended, Lectures at the Collge de France 197576. New York: Picador. Selection: Chapter 11, March 17, 1976 (239-263).
Foucault, Michel. 1978/1991. Governmentality. Pp. 87-104 in The Foucault Effect: Studies in
Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
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Foucault, Michel. 1994. "The Subject and Power." Pp. 326-348 in Foucault: Power. Essential
Works of Foucault 1954-1984, Volume 3, edited by James D. Faubion. New York: The New
Press
Foucault, Michel. 1988. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucault, edited by
Luther Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick Hutton. Boston: University of Massachusetts
Press. Selection: Technologies of the Self (16-49).
No Presentations This Week
March 20th

Debates in Post-Structuralism: Identity and Ideology [148]

Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge. Selections: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire (1-34), Bodily Inscriptions,
Performative Subversions (128-141), and From Parody to Politics (142-149).
Butler, Judith. 2008. Imitation and Gender Insubordination. Pp. 165-178 in The New Social
Theory Reader, Second Edition, edited by Steven Seidman and Jeffrey Alexander. New
York: Routledge.
Hall, Stuart. 1996. Who Needs Identity? Pp. 1-17 in Questions of Cultural Identity, edited by
Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay. London: Sage.
Wingrove, Elizabeth. 1999 (Summer). Interpellating Sex. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society 24, 4 (Institutions, Regulation and Social Control): 869-893.
iek, Slavoj. 1989. The Sublime Object of Ideology. New York: Verso.
Selection: How Did Marx Invent the Symptom? (11-53)
Possible Presentation Material:
Butler, Judith. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge.
** PAPER #2 DUE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 22nd **

SPRING BREAK
April 3rd

Epistemologies: Positivism, Critical Realism, Standpoint Theory, and

Interpretation [279] Guest Lecturer: Isaac Reed

Turner, Jonathan. 1992. The Promise of Positivism. Pp. 156-178 in Postmodernism and Social
Theory, edited by Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Steinmetz, George. 1998. Critical Realism and Historical Sociology: A Review Article.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 40, 1: 170-186.
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Methodology. Pp. 105146 in The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern
University Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1989. The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought. Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society 14, 4 (Summer): 745-773.
Reed, Isaac Ariail. 2011. Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the
Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Entire Book.
No Presentations This Week
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April 10th

The Sociology of Knowledge [158]

Mannheim, Karl. 1936/1956. Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of

Knowledge. New York: Harvest Books. Selections: The Sociology of Knowledge, 264311.
Foucault, Michel. 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New
York: Pantheon Books. Selections: Introduction, 3-17.
Latour, Bruno. 1989. Science in Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Selections:
Introduction, 1-17.
Knorr-Cetina, Karin. 1981. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and
Contextual Nature of Science. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Selections: 1-32.
Haraway, Donna. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the
Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14, 3: 575-599.
Treichler, Paula. 1999. AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality. Pp. 149-175 in
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS. Durham: Duke
University Press.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Epstein, Steven. 1996. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
2) Knorr-Cetina, Karin. 1999. Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
April 17th

Sovereignty and Exceptionalism [166]

Schmitt, Carl. 2005. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Translated
by George Schwab. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Selections: Foreward by Tracy Strong (vii-xxxv) and Chapter 1 (1922): The Definition of
Sovereignty (5-15).
Arendt, Hannah. 1948/2004. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Schocken Books.
Selections: Part II, Chapter 5: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of
Man (341-384).
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel
Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Selections: Introduction, 1-14; The
Paradox of Sovereignty, 15-29; Homo Sacer, 71-74; The Ambivalence of the Sacred,
75-80; Sacred Life, 81-86; Part III, The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern,
119-188.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Ong, Aihwa. 2006. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty.
Duke University Press.
2) Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. 2010. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West
Africas Time of AIDS. Duke University Press.

April 24th

Post-Colonialism [177]

Said, Edward. 1978. Introduction. Pp. 1-28 in Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses. Pp. 51-80 in Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press.
Bhabha, Homi. 1994/2004. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge Classics. Selections:
"The Other Question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism" (94-120)
and "Of Mimicry and Man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse" (121-131).
Dirlik, Arif. 1994. The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global
Capitalism. Pp 561-588 in Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and
Criticism, edited by Gaurav Desai and Supriya Nair. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press.
Bhambra, Gurminder. 2011. Talking among Themselves? Weberian and Marxist Historical
Sociologies as Dialogues without Others. Millenium 39, 3: 667681.
Hall, Stuart. 1996. When Was The Post-Colonial? Thinking at the Limit. Pp. 242-260 in The
Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons, edited by Iain Chambers and
Lidia Curti. New York: Routledge.
Decoteau, Claire Laurier. Forthcoming 2013. Hybrid Habitus: Toward a Post-Colonial Theory of
Practice. Political Power and Social Theory 24 (Special Issue: Postcolonial Sociology):
265295.
Possible Presentation Material:
1) Bhambra, Gurminder. 2009. Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological
Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan.
2) Go, Julian. 2008. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in
the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism. Duke University Press.
3) Comaroff, Jean and John Comaroff. 2009. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago University Press.
4) Connell, Raewyn. 2007. Southern Theory: Social Science and the Global Dynamics of
Knowledge. Polity Press.
May 1st

Globalization and Empire [164]

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1983. The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist
World-Economy. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 24 (1-2): 100-108.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. Theoretical Reprise. Pp. 347-357 in The Modern World System I:
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth
Century. New York: Academic Press.
Harvey, David. 2006. Neoliberalism and the Restoration of Class Power. Pp. 9-68 in Spaces of
Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. New York:
Verso.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Selections: 3.2: Disciplinary Governability (240-259); 3.3: Resistance, Crisis,
Transformation (260-279); 3.6: Capitalist Sovereignty (325-350).
Peck, Jamie and Adam Tickell. 2002. Neoliberalizing Space. Antipode 34 (3), 380-404.
Watch: http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia/global-crisis-rethinking-economy-and-societyunderstanding-crisis-historically
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Possible Presentation Material:

1) Arrighi, Giovanni. 2010. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of
Our Times (New and Updated Edition). New York: Verso
2) Sassen, Saskia. 2008. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages.
Princeton University Press.
3) Ferguson, James. 2006. Global Shadows: Africa and the Neoliberal World Order. Duke
University Press.
** PAPER #3 DUE ON MONDAY, May 6th **

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