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The following text is from the unit guide of one of the units of my MA. At the end you will find a hyperlink that will take you to my assessed work for the specific unit. Goldsmiths
college, University of London Department
of Sociology, GLOBALISATION
– RISK – CONTROL Course reference number: SOM 449 Autumn Term 1999 Course Convenor Dr. Brett St Louis Room 1002, Warmington Tower Telephone extn. 4036 (temporary number) Office Hour: Tuesday 3:00 – 4:00 (other times by appointment) Globalisation – Risk – Control is offered as an option course on the Master’s degree programme. Globalisation – Risk – Control has two principal aims. It aims to present students with a range of interdisciplinary debates on Globalisation and invite them to think critically about the idea and practicalities of the ‘global’ and ‘globalising’ processes. There are two main course objectives: to enable students to develop a critical perspective on the intersections of risk and control within globalisation and globality, and to make connections between the issues raised and your own reading and research. The course is divided into three broad sections. The introduction engages the connections between the discourses of modernity, modernisation and globalisation. Section 1 addresses the impact of globalisation on different levels of sociological thought. We will examine the key issues of space, time, reflexivity and risk as pivotal dynamics in the shift from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘modern’ to the ‘global postmodern’. Section 2 examines the political economy of the global/local divide. We will explore the development of infomedia networks and persistent national and ethnic particularisms and conflicts to question the salience of the state as a localised repository of power and agent of social control. Section 3 examines the complex question of power and central to many debates of globalisation in four parts. First, we will analyse the very concept of ‘culture’ itself, drawing a set of insights into its inclusionary and exclusionary premises. Second, we will examine the formation and control of the body as crucial to cultural production through the example of globalised ‘mediasport’. Third, we will revisit the global/local divide to critically assess the discourses of homogeneity and heterogeneity within the edifice of ‘global culture’. Fourth, we will explore the effects of globalisation on identity formation, looking at patterns of diasporic movement and hybridity. The course will conclude with a consideration of the emergence of ‘Cool Britannia’ as an example of the convergence of political, economic and cultural discourses that demonstrates the complex formations of globalisation.
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