Global Issues of the Twenty-First Century: United Nations
Challenges.
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. http://www.global-challenges.org/
Sociology of global politics http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/sgp.htm
syllabus, including list of readings about globalization in the context
of social change. Also see the global site http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/
which lists links to many free on line books and shorter works.
COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Sociology/classes/sem2_99-00/so160.html
Class on development, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Myungsook Woo,
includes
list of readings. Reading listed include, for example, Daniel
Chirot,
"The Rise of the West." American Sociological Review 50, April 1985,
181-195,
and Charles Tilly, "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In:
Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, Bringing the
State
Back In. Cambridge University Press 1985.
Political Sociology of the Advanced
Societies
http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/510syl02.html
Syllabus and reading list. Sections of list include European
State-Building,
Capitalism and Politics and Long-Term Social Trends and Politics --
Current
American Debate (plus some comparative readings). Some readings
are
available on line.
Economic Development and Demographic
Experience
in Historical Perspective, Fall 1999 http://www.eh.net/coursesyllabi/syllabi/InwoodK_develop.html
includes reading list with many references useful for social change.
Runaway world - the Reith Lectures revisited reading
list http://www.lse.ac.uk/Giddens/readinglist.htm
From Anthony Giddens Runaway world page, list of books on change.
Various Political Economy courses
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/SyllabiEtc.html
For example, see Proseminar on political economy http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/ps651.syllabus.fa01.pdf
includes a section on The New Economic History and the New
Institutionalism,
listing readings such as North, Douglas C. and Robert Paul Thomas, The
Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History.
Economic History of Modern Europe, 1750 TO
1914
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/303BIB.htm
by Prof. John H. Munro. Annotated list of readings about economic
history, some of which may be explanations of change. Also see
his
home page http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/
for other bibliographies relating to history.
József Böröcz 's home page http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jborocz/
Syllabi to a couple of classes, including social change, at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jborocz/sc.syl.htm
and Comparative/Historical Methods at http://hi.rutgers.edu/hi/jb/chm.syl.htm
Book reviews by Brad DeLong http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/Reviews/variousbookreviews.html
reviews many economic books, such as Robert Wright, Non
ZeroJared
Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel and David S.
Landes:
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Others So
Poor?
EHNet course syllabi page http://www.eh.net/coursesyllabi/
For example, syllabus on Alter, George, The Industrial Revolution;
Carlson,
L. Development of the U.S. Economy; Guthrie, W. American Economic
History.
Vincent Ferraro's home page http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm
teaches classes in world politics and international political
economy.
These syllabi and readings are on line, as well as links to many other
sources.
My own list of articles, books. I compiled this in 1990, so some references are dated.
My review of How Societies Change, by Daniel Chirot, for Teaching Sociology, April, 2001.
I'm looking for more syllabi and list of readings about social change. If you teach a class on social change, and would like your syllabus listed, or have a list of readings, please let me know!
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