Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (04.06.2019)
Structure of Lessons:
1. Civilization and its development.
a. The concept of civilization.
b. Culture and civilization.
c. History of civilization.
2. Introduction to sociology of globalization.
3. Different approaches to globalization.
4. History of globalization.
5. Theories of globalization.
6. Political globalization.
7. Economic globalization.
8. Globalization and culture.
9. Transnational corporation and the new capitalist class.
10. Globalization and inequality.
11. Globalization and migration.
12. Military globalization.
13. Globalization and the environment.
Required reading:
- Arnason Johann P. 2003. Civilization in disputes: Historical questions and theoretical traditions. Leiden & Boston: BRILL
- Bartelson J. 2000. Three Concepts of Globalization. International Sociology: Journal of International Sociological Association: Vol. 15, No. 2.
- Beyer P. F. Four Approaches to globalization. In: Roberson R. and White k E. (eds.) Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London and New York: Routledge.
- Braudel Fernand. 1993. A history of Civilization. London: Penguin
- Giddens A. 1990. The consequences of modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Held D, McGrew A, Goldblatt D. Perraton J. 2005. Global Transformation: Politics, Economics and culture. Cambridge: Polity
- Hirst P. 1997. The Global Economy: myth and realities. International Affairs, 73
- Hoogvelt A. 2001. Globalization and the postcolonal World: the new political economy of development. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins university Press.
- Mann Michael. 2012. The Sources of social power: Vol. 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge: Cambridge University
- Mann Michael. 2012. The Sources of social power: Vol.3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ohmae K. 1996. The end of Nation State: The rise of regional economies. New York and London: Free Press.
- Pikkety Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty- First Century. Cambridge, Massachusett and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
- Samuel Huntington. 1997. The clash of civilization and the making of the world order. London and New York: Touchstone Books
- Therborn G. 2002. Globalization, Dimensions, Historical Waves, regional effects, normative governance. International Sociology: Journal of International Sociological Association: Vol. 15, No. 2.
- Therborn G. 2013. The Killing Fields of Inequality. Cambridge: Polity
- Tomlinson J. 2009. Globalization and culture. Cambridge: Polity
Recommended reading:
- Chase-Dunn C., Kawano Y., Brewer B. G. 2000. Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-system. American Sociological Review, 65 (1),
- Cohen R. a Kennedy P. 2000.Global sociology. New York: New York University.
- El-Ojeili Ch. and Hayden P. 2006. Critical theories of Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Giddens A. 2002. Runaway world. How globalization reshaping our lives. London: Profile Books.
- Mills M. 2009. Globalization and inequality. European sociological Review, Vol. 25, No. 1,
- Ritzer George. 2010. Globalization: A Basic Text. London Blackwell.
- Ritzer George. Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell Publisher.
- Robertson R. 1993. Globalization and Sociological theory. In: Martins H. (ed.). Knowledge and Passion: Essays in honour of John Rex. London: I.B. Tauris
- Rothkopf David. 2009. Superclass: how the rich ruined our world. London: Abacus.
- Sassen S. 2007. A Sociology of Globalization. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company.
- Sklair Leslie. 2003. The transnational capitalist class. Cambridge: Polity Press
- Stiglitz J. 2002. Globalization and its discontents. London: Penguin.
