SOC 269
Globalizing India Spring 2014
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed INST 269
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India’s dramatic rise to global prominence has captured public attention. In newspapers, magazines, and popular books, we read about economic prosperity, growing cities, and new consumers. In this course, we will investigate the social issues behind these headlines by drawing on sociological accounts of contemporary life in India. Case studies will provide us with nuanced perspectives on issues such as migration, outsourcing, consumption, and economic development and enable us to re-consider popular and scholarly characterizations of globalization. As we explore the re-configurations of politics, power, and social life that have occurred since economic liberalization began in the early 1990s, we will tease apart the complex relationships between global economic integration and social change. We will investigate how globalization presents possibilities for social mobility and political change as well as for exploitation along existing fault lines of inequality and exclusion. Course materials will include ethnographic case studies, documentary films, commercial films, and items from contemporary Indian media. Lectures will contextualize this material by providing background on Indian society, history, and politics.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 3930
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: attendance at film screenings; participation, research project and oral presentation; quizzes, midterm and final
Prerequisites: none; open to all
Enrollment Preferences: Anthropology and Sociology majors
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
SOC 269 Division II INST 269 Division II

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