IDPS 106 - Understanding Our Global Age:Social Scientific Perspectives

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Trinity College

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We are living through a time of revolutionary changes in human history that some have argued are as important as such earlier breakthroughs as the creation of the alphabet or the invention of the printing press. We share a sense that these momentous changes are somehow driven by the new information technologies and the formation of a global market, shaped by dominant states and powerful transnational corporations. But how exactly do these technological, economic and political factors interact and with what weight in determining outcomes And what about social and cultural forces We will never really understand our global age without addressing questions of the Western cultural and social roots of so many of the now dominant forces shaping outcomes and affecting lives around the globe. This seminar will examine the ways in which social scientists from a variety of disciplines have addressed these issues. How have scholars attempted the daunting task of taking the entire globe and all of its peoples as a unit of analysis in under to understand the processes of globalization We will assess the systematic ways in which they have done so and evaluate the understandings of our global age that representative works have generated. Given its challenging subject matter, this seminar will pay as much attention to theory and method (how issues framed and tackled) as to substantive conclusions reached. Throughout, the seminar will emphasize the development of analytical reading, discussion, and writing skills 1.00 units, Seminar

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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