SOC 303

Catalog description

Seminar on global capitalism, with a focus on where our current world system came from and where it’s headed. Topics include colonialism and anti-colonial struggles, the development of ‘the West’ and underdevelopment of ‘the Rest,’ globalization and global commodity chains, transnational labor and social movements, the economic rise of East Asia, the social foundations of interstate conflict, and the challenges facing the future of global capitalism.