SOC7170 Political Sociology

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1 SOC7170 Political Sociology Fall 2008, Tuesday 11:30-2:30pm, Desmarais 8143 Instructor: Philippe Couton Office hours: Tuesday, 2:30-4:30 pm Office: Desmarais 8102 Phone: ext Course website: WebCT Course Description: Note: In , this seminar is designated as one of two partial immersion seminars, for Anglophone students. Much of the seminar will be conducted in French, although readings and assignments are primarily in English. See below for details. This course presents some of the most important recent developments in political sociology, including empirical and theoretical studies of citizenship, power, nationalism, social movements, the state, transborder migration, and related themes. In addition to core readings in English, this course will also present a few texts in French, intended to help students better understand some of the important debates in French-language political sociology. Only a basic knowledge of French is necessary, but a commitment to improving it, if needed, is an absolute requirement. The general objective of the course is twofold. First, students should come away with a good knowledge of major and emerging concepts and authors relevant to the study of political sociology to inform their future research. Second, and perhaps more importantly, by the end of the semester, we should all have developed a better understanding of current debates at the intersection of the study of politics and society, through discussions, presentations, and readings. These debates include the future of the nation state, the transformation of political contention, the redefinition of borders, and the emergence of new collective political actors. Evaluation : - Two in class presentations, 10% each. Each student will present one of the books and authors discussed that week. One of these presentations should be on one of the Frenchlanguage works discussed. - Participation : 10% - Research proposal : 20% (2-4 pages) - Final paper : 50% (about 25 pages)

2 Weekly topics: Week 1, Sept. 9: Introduction and presentation seminar. No readings. Week 2, Sept 16: The State: Autonomy, Interdependence, or Decline? Mann, Michael A Theory of the Modern State Chapter 3 in his Sources of Social Power. Pp Chapter available online, book also on reserve. Braud, Philippe Penser l État. Paris: Seuil Extraits. (book also on reserve JC 11.B ) Braud, Philippe Sociologie politique Paris : LGDJ JA 76.B Michael Mann, The Autonomous Power of the State. Archives européennes de sociologie, Mann, Michael Sources of Social Power. Vols 1 and 2. Cambridge. HN 8.M v.2 Lange, Matthew and Dietrich Rueschemeyer States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance. Palgrave/Macmillan Press. JA 77.S Week 3, Sept 23: The Welfare State: Crisis and Sustainability Esping-Andersen, Gøsta The Sustainability of Welfare States into the Twenty- First Century. International Journal of Health Services, 30: 1. Esping-Andersen, Gøsta and John Myles The Welfare State and Redistribution Rosanvallon, Pierre Beyond The Welfare-State Politics & Society, 16,4: Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (ed.) Why We Need a New Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, This is available from Oxford Scholarship Online, free to members of the University of Ottawa: Esping-Andersen, Gøsta Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press

3 Rosanvallon, Pierre La nouvelle question sociale : repenser l'etat-providence. Paris : Seuil. Rosanvallon, Pierre Le modèle politique français : la société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours. Paris : Seuil Both of these major works on the question have been translated and are partly available online: The New Social Question, (Google books) and The Demands of Liberty Civil Society in France since the Revolution, from Harvard university Press (short excerpt) Week 4, Sept. 30: Social Movements : New Forms of Contention Touraine Chapters 1-2 of part 3 (pp ) Critique de la modernité (book on reserve) Statham, Paul; Koopmans, Ruud; Giugni, Marco; Passy, Florence Resilient or Adaptable Islam? Multiculturalism, Religion and Migrants' Claims-Making for Group Demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France Ethnicities, 5, 4: Carrol, William K. and R.S. Ratner Master Framing and Cross-Movement Networking n Contemporary Social Movements. The Sociological Quarterly, 37,4: Carrol, William K Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice. Revised edition. Toronto: Garamond, 1997 Staggenborg, Suzanne. Social Movements. Oxford University Press, 2008 Tarrow, Sidney Power in movement: social movements and contentious politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Week 5, Oct. 7: Revolutions: New Theories, New Futures Goodwin, Jeff, and Theda Skocpol Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World. Politics and Society, 17,4, This article is also reprinted in Skocpol, Theda Social revolutions in the modern world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Goodwin, Jeff Toward a New Sociology of Revolution. Theory and Society 23: Note: this whole issue of Theory and Society is on revolution. Of possible interest.

4 Foran, John Studying Revolutions through the Prism of Race, Gender, and Class: Notes Toward a Framework Race, Gender & Class. 8 (2): Foran, John The Future of Revolutions at the Fin-De-Siecle. Third World Quarterly 18 (5): Skocpol, Theda Social revolutions in the modern world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. HN 16.S Skocpol, Theda States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. HM 876.S Tilly, Charles From mobilization to revolution. London: Addison Wesley. JC T Goodwin, Jeff No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945 to 1991, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. JC 491.G Foran John The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization. Zed Books. HM 876.F Foran John Taking Power On the Origins of Third World Revolutions Cambridge University Press. HN 979.F Week 6, Oct.14: Citizenship: Between Rights and Belonging Joppke, Christian Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity Citizenship Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp , Feb 2007 Rosanvallon, Pierre «Citoyenneté politique et citoyenneté sociale au XIXe siècle» Le Mouvement social, No. 171 (Apr. - Jun., 1995), pp Joppke, Christian Selecting by Origin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. JV 6038.J Rosanvallon, Pierre Le modèle politique français : la société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours. Paris : Seuil DC 252.R Week 7, Oct. 21: Borders and Migration

5 Alexis Spire and Dominique Merllié «La question des origines dans les statistiques en France. Les enjeux d'une controverse» Le Mouvement social, No. 188, Immigration et Logiques Nationales Europe, XIXe-XXe siècles (Jul. - Sep., 1999), pp Koopmans, Ruud and Paul Statham Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 3 (Nov. 1999), pp Noiriel, Gérard «L'immigration en France, une histoire en friche» Annales, Année 1986, Volume 41, Numéro 4 p Noiriel, Gérard Le creuset Français. Paris : Seuil. JV 7924.N Koopmans, Ruud; Paul Staham; Marco Giugni; and Florence Passy Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. JV 7590.C Week 8, Oct. 28: Nationalism Brubaker, Rogers In the Name of the Nation: Reflections on Nationalism and Patriotism. Citizenship Studies 8[2] (2004): Reprinted in The Many Faces of Patriotism, ed. Philip Abbott (Lowman and Littlefield, 2007), pp ; ation.pdf Mann Michael The dark side of Democracy, chapter 1 Noiriel, Gérard «La question nationale comme objet de l'histoire sociale.» Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, Année 4, 1 : A similar argument is developed in «La construction historique de la nation», a conference available online : s_conferences_de_l_annee_2000/nations_violence_communication_et_sport/la_construct ion_historique_de_la_nation Brubaker, Rogers Nationalism Reframed : Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. DJK 51.B

6 Brubaker, Rogers Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany Cambridge: Harvard University Press. This book is available from the History e-book project, ACLS Humanities E-book: Mann Michael The dark side of Democracy HV 6322.M Week 9, Nov. 4: Nationalism II Anderson, Benedict Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism New Left Review. Dumont, Fernand «Essor et déclin du Canada français». Recherches Sociographiques. 38 :3, Dumont, Fernand Genèse de la société québécoise. Montréal : Boréal. Extrait en ligne (conclusion) : Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. JC 311.G Week 10, Nov 11: Labour and Capital Robert Castel La société salariale pp in Les métamorphoses de la question sociale. Paris : Folio. Carroll, William K. and Fennema, Meindert Is There a Transnational Business Community? International Sociology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp , Sept 2002 Carroll, William K Corporate Power in a Globalizing World: A Study in Elite Social Organization. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. HD 2809.C Week 11, Nov. 18: Exile and politics Said, Edward The Mind of Winter: Reflections on Life in Exile. Harper's 269:1612 (1984:Sept.) p

7 Note: this essay appears in slightly different form in his 2000 collection Reflections on Exile (see below). Said, Edward Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals. Grand Street; Fall93, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p112, 13p. Birnbaum, Pierre vers une contre-histoire chapitre 1 de Géographie de l Espoir Paris : Gallimard DS B Recommended : Said, Edward Reflections on Exile. Cambridge : Harvard University Press. selected chapters. PN 98.P64 S Week 12, Nov 25: Democracy Rancière Jacques La Haine de la démocratie - Chroniques des temps consensuels par Mise en ligne le jeudi 15 décembre Schnapper, Dominique «Renouveau ethnique et renouveau religieux dans les démocraties providentielles» Archives de sciences sociales des religions 131 (2005) Putnam, Robert D Introduction to Democracies in Flux:The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. Oxford. The entire book is available from Oxford Scholarship Online. Dahl, Robert A Polyarchy, Pluralism, and Scale. Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol.7, Issue 4, p (4):225. Recommended : Dahl, Robert Alan On Democracy. New Haven : Yale University Press. JC 423.D Schnapper, Dominique La démocratie providentielle. Paris : Gallimard Schnapper, Dominique La communauté des citoyens : sur l'idée moderne de nation. Paris : Gallimard JC 311.S The English version, Community of citizens, is partly available on Google books, and on reserve. Rancière, Jacques. La haine de la démocratie. La Fabrique, 2005 JC 423.R