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科目名稱：社會發展理論

Course Name: Development Studies: Sociology Approach
  • 學年學期：112-1 Fall Semester, 2023
  • 科目代碼：261102001 Course No.261102001

修別：群

Type of Credit: Partially Required

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

12

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：國發碩一、國發碩二 Course Department:Graduate Institute of Development Studies/M/1&2
  • 授課老師：何浩慈 Instructor: HO HAO-TZU
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：三567 Session: wed14-17

課程簡介Course Description

In the past few decades, the studies on social development were highly related to modernisation theory, dependency theory, and world system theory. One of the major research topics was especially related to the issue of economic development in developing countries. However, the current concern of development studies is no longer focused merely on the material abundance of society. Instead, the subject has expanded to broader areas such as human well-being and environmental sustainability. Present-day research on this matter requires trans-disciplinary and solid knowledge to understand the development of human society and culture, both locally and globally. To respond to the above needs, this course integrates the academic legacy of sociology and anthropology, guiding students to travel from reading classics to facing contemporary issues to learn the technique of applying theory to policy. 

 

This course is designed to introduce major topics of social development. Since global interaction has become a daily routine, this course will be based on a viewpoint of cross-cultural understanding to enhance students’ ability to deal with people and information from diverse backgrounds. We will read materials regarding the following issues: reflection of development theory; political and cultural dimension on economic development; social capital and development; social economy and social innovation; social inclusion and exclusion; urban and regional development; inequality; social protest and new development models.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    This course contains lectures, student presentations, and in-class discussions. These activities are based on reading materials and lecture slides. Apart from lectures, students are expected to summarise readings on the topic(s) they sign-up for at the beginning of the term and present their thoughts (at least 1 presentation, depending on the class size). Students are advised to read before weekly sessions and bring their reflections and questions to in-class discussions. Finally, this course aims to help students think clearly and express their ideas in the term paper about what can and cannot reasonably be said about causal relations within the global political economy’s realms. Assessment will emphasise the importance of analytical perspectives on key social science issues, theories, and policies.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    Week 1 Introduction & Logistics

     

    Week 2 Development Studies: Scope & Critical Perspectives

    Reference Readings

    1. 王振寰、簡旭伸。2016。〈發展研究概述：理論發展與研究方法〉，《發展研究與當代台灣社會》。台北：巨流。
    2. Reinert, E. 2007. Introduction. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. London: Constable.
    3. Sen, Amartya, 1999. Introduction. Development as Freedom. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
    4. Giddens, A. 1971. Introduction. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    5. Lewis, D. 2005. Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship. In A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Carrier, James G. ed. Pp: 472-486. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
    6. Escobar, A. (1997), Anthropology and development. International Social Science Journal, 49: 497-515.

     

    Week 3 Theoretical Foundation 1: Durkheim, Religion & Structural Functionalism

    Required Readings

    1. Durkheim, E 1915 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Introduction.
    2. _____ The division of labour in society (L. Coser translation), chapters. 1 and 3.
    3. Fortes, M 1970 “Pietas and ancestor worship” in Time and social structure, London: Athlone Press.
    4. Giddens, A (ed) “Durkheim’s conception of sociological method” Chapter 6 of 1972 Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings.

     

    Week 4 Theoretical Foundation 2: Bourdieu, Structure, Conflict, Practice & Change

    Required Readings

    1. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch 2: Structures and the Habitus; Ch 4: Structure, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power.
    2. Barth, Fredrik 1992 “Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies” in A Kuper (ed.) Conceptualizing Society. London: Routledge.
    3. Gluckman, Max. 1963. Introduction. Order and rebellion in tribal Africa. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.

     

    Week 5 Theoretical Foundation 3: Marxism & Social Class

    Required Readings

    1. Bloch M. 1983. Chapter 1. Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship. London: Routledge.
    2. Donham, D 2006 “Epochal Structures and Historical Materialism” in H.L. Moore & T. Sanders (eds) 2006 Anthropology in theory: Issues in epistemology.
    3. Smith, R. T. (1984). Anthropology and the Concept of Social Class. Annual Review of Anthropology, 13, 467–494.

     

    Week 6 Theoretical Foundation 4: Economy, Exchange, Gift & Trade

    Required Readings

    1. Sherry, J. F. (1983). Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective. Journal of Consumer Research, 10(2), 157–168.
    2. Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz. 2014. The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History. Annual Review of Anthropology, 43:1, 465-482.
    3. James, Deborah (2021) Life and debt: a view from the south. Economy and Society, 50 (1). 36 - 56.

     

    Week 7 Theoretical Foundation 5: Weber, Social Status & Social Division

    Required Readings

    1. Keyes, C. F. (2002). Weber and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 233–255.
    2. Barth, F. “Introduction” in F. Barth (ed.) 1969 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organisation of Culture Difference. London: Allen and Unwin. pp. 9-38.
    3. Parkin, F. 2002 Max Weber (Key Sociologists), esp. ch.4.

     

    Week 8 Theoretical Foundation 6: Giddens, Capitalism, Modernity & Relations

    Required Readings

    1. Giddens, A. 1971 Chapters 9 and 12 of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    2. Giddens, A. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Chapters 1, 7. Cambridge: Polity Press.
    3. Giddens, A. 1992. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4. Cambridge: Polity Press.

     

    Week 9 Theoretical Foundation 7: Foucault & Experimentations in an Era of ‘Postconditions’

    Required Readings

    1. Foucault, Michel. 2001 [1961]. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Ch 9: The Birth of the Asylum; Conclusion. London: Routledge.
    2. Clifford, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapter 12, 277-346: Identity in Mashpee.
    3. Mascia-Lees, Frances E. and Patricia Sharpe, and Colleen Ballerino Cohen. 1989. The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective. Signs 15(1): 7-33.

     

    Week 10           Issue & Policy 1: Rethinking Globalisation and Cosmopolitanism

    Required Readings

    1. Tsing, Anna. 2000. The Global Situation. Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 327-360.
    2. Candea, Matei. 2007. Arbitrary Locations: In Defence of the Bounded Field-Site. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13(1): 167-184.
    3. Werbner, Pnina. (ed.) 2008. Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives. New York: Berg. Ch. 1.

     

    Week 11           Issue & Policy 2: State, Markets, and Institutions

    Required Readings

    1. Reinert, E. 2007. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. London: Constable, Chapters 2, “The Evolution of Two Different Approaches”.
    2. Smith, A. 1776. An Inquiry into the Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Chapter 2, “Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour”.
    3. Polanyi, K. 2001 [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times (Boston: Beacon Press), Chap. 5, “Evolution of the Market Pattern” and Chap. 6, “The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land and Money”.

     

    Week 12           Issue & Policy 3: Colonial Legacies, Agricultural Change, and Industrialisation

    Required Readings

    1. Mamdani, Mahmood. 2001. Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43:651-664.
    2. Knight, John, Li Shi and Lina Song. 2006. The Rural-Urban Divide and the Evolution of Political Economy in China. In Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin. Ed. James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    3. Tam, M., & Evans, G. (1997). Introduction. Hong Kong: the anthropology of a Chinese metropolis. Richmond: Curzon.

     

    Week 13           Issue & Policy 4: Social Exclusion & Social Innovation

    1. Room, G. J., 1999, “Social exclusion, solidarity and the challenge of globalization,” International Journal of Social Welfare 8 (3), 166–174.
    2. Goodstadt, L. F. (2014). Introduction. Poverty in the midst of affluence: how Hong Kong mismanaged its prosperity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
    3. Storper, M. 2005, “Society, community, and economic development,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 39:4, 30-57.

     

    Week 14           Issue & Policy 5: Sustainable Development & Urban Bias

    Required Readings

    1. Bezemer, D., & Headey, D. 2008. Agriculture, Development and Urban Bias. World Development 36, 8: 1342-1364.
    2. Homer, Dixon. 1999. Environment, scarcity and violence. Princeton University Press. Chapter 3: Two Centuries of Debate. Pp.28-44.
    3. Beck, U. 1992. Introduction. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage.

     

    Week 15           Issue & Policy 6: Regional Development, Civil Society, and Welfare State

    Required Readings

    1. Malmberg, A., and P. Maskell. (1997). “Towards an explanation of regional specialization and industrial agglomeration,” European Planning Studies, 5(1): 25-41. (in Edquist, V:1, 184-200)
    2. Weller, Robert P. 2005. Civil Associations and Autonomy Under Three Regimes: The Boundaries of State and Society in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In Weller, Robert P. (ed.), Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia. London: Routledge. Pp. 76-94.
    3. Wang, Ya Ping, 2007, “From Socialist Welfare to Support of Home-Ownership: The Experience of China,’ in Richard Groves et al (eds.), Housing and The New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

     

    Week 16           Term Paper Oral Presentation；Feedback from the Instructor

     

    Week 17           Flexible Supplementary Teaching Week: Self-directed Integrated Learning.

     

    Week 18           Flexible Supplementary Teaching Week: Completing the Term Paper.

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    40%

    講述 Lecture

    20%

    討論 Discussion

    30%

    小組活動 Group activity

    10%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. Attendance & participation in discussion (20%)
    2. Required reading oral presentation (20%)
    3. Reading notes (30%)
    4. Term paper (30%)
      1. Written work (20%)
      1. Oral presentation (10%)

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    1. 簡旭伸、王振寰。2016。《發展研究與當代台灣社會》。台北：巨流。
    2. Aron, R. 1968 Main Currents in Sociological Thought. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
    3. Giddens, A. 1971 Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge　University Press.
    4. Kuper, Adam 1988 The invention of primitive society: transformations of an illusion. London, Routledge.
    5. Moore, H.L. & T. Sanders (eds.) 2006 Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology.
    6. Bendix, R. 1960 Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. London: Heinemann.
    7. Camic, C., P.S. Gorski and D.M. Trubek, (eds.) 2005 Max Weber’s ‘Economy and Society’. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
    8. Elster, J 1986 Karl Marx: A Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    9. Giddens, A. Emile Durkheim: Selected writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    10. Sen, Amartya,1999, Development as Freedom. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
    11. Gellner, Ernest. 2005. Nations and Nationalism (2nd ed.) (Oxford: Blackwell)
    12. Chang, H-J (ed.) 2003. Rethinking Development Economics London: Anthem.
    13. Reinert, Erik, 2007. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. London: Constable, reprinted 2010.
    14. Polanyi, K. 2001 [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times (Boston: Beacon Press).
    15. Vertovec, S. & Cohen, R. 2002. Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    16. Beck, U. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage.
    17. Chari, S. and Corbridge, S. (eds.) 2008. The Development Reader. London: Routledge.
    18. Tim Forsyth (ed). 2005. Encyclopedia of International Development. London: Routledge.
    19. Werbner, Pnina. (ed.) 2008. Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives. New York: Berg.
    20. Weller, Robert P. (ed.) 2005. Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia. London: Routledge.

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