SOC 2422 - Global Social Change

Credits: 4
This course explores the nature of contemporary social change by examining the meanings of globalization, its central processes and institutional structures. It emphasizes the socio-economic, political and cultural implications of globalization. It pays particular attention to: the continuing struggle for development in poor countries; the relationship between globalization, inequality and poverty; the fate of cultural diversity in a globalizing world; and issues of gender, ethnicity, the environment, social justice, and human rights. The course evaluates the role of corporations and international financial institutions, global trade agreements, socio-economic structures and political institutions of some Third World countries and their relationships to metropolitan and industrialized power centres.
Prerequisites SOC 1103 or SOC 1104 or FYS 1104
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding