Type of Credit: Elective
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This class will explore classical statements, controversies, and research in central topics in political sociology, which is centrally interested in states and power. As an IDAS course, our case studies of interest will come from the Asia Pacific, but the theoretical lessons we learn will be global. As social scientists in training, the purpose of this course is not to make you an expert, but rather to give you the tools to become one. Most importantly, this class is meant to be an introduction to how social scientists study political sociology. We will consider a variety of methods, disciplinary approaches, and address some of the big theoretical debates within both sociology and political science. Although your individual interests will differ, the contents of this course will be important for all of you to absorb regardless of your own research agendas.
能力項目說明
This course is meant to be rigorous and challenging and intended for IDAS students who enjoy delving deep into academic literature. For those unfamiliar with seminar style courses, it means my lectures will be short and minimal. The majority of our time will be spent discussing our weekly readings as a group. It is my role to guide and facilitate class discussions. That means I expect you to participate actively and respectfully. Active participation means contributing in a way that demonstrates a knowledge of the readings and critically engaging with other classmates’ comments. Respectful participation means being mindful and thoughtful to your classmates. IDAS’s diversity as a program is one of our greatest strengths. We have the opportunity to learn from scholars from around the world whose perspectives, experiences, and politics will be different from our own. I expect you all to treat your classmates with the utmost respect even during moments of disagreement.
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Class Outline:
*Please note: Readings will be available online and are subject to change*
Week 1: Housekeeping
Week 2: What is Political Sociology?
- Symposium: “Boundaries and Relations between Political Science and Political Sociology.” 2008. Political Sociology 14 (3): 1-5.
- Michael Mann, "The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms,
- and Results," pp. 109-36 in States in History, edited by John A. Hall (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986).
- Alexander Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz, “Political Sociology in the New Millenium.” Introduction, Handbook of Political Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- Max Weber, "Classes, Status Groups, and Parties" [1922]. Chapter 3 in W. G.
Runciman, ed. Weber: Selections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). Economy and Society (Bedminster Press, 1968), v. 3, 941-955 ("Domination and Legitimacy").
Week 2: Power
- Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View – second edition
Week 4: States and Institutionalism
- Evan Schofer, Ann Hironaka, David John Frank and Wesley Longhofer.
“Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” Chapter 6: in
the New Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, eds. Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, “Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science." Pp. 693-721 in Political Science: The State of the Discipline edited by I. Katznelson and H. V. Milner. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
- Edwin Amenta and Kelly Ramsey, “Institutional Theory." Pp. 15-40 in The Handbook of Politics: State and Civil Society in Global Perspective edited by Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins. (New York: Springer, 2010).
- Kim, Sung Chull. "Critical juncture and nuclear-power dependence in Japan: A historical institutionalist analysis." (2013).
Week 5: State Formation
- Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 (Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell, 1992), Chapter 1.
- Carpenter, Daniel P. 2001. "Introduction, Chapter 1 and Conclusion" in The
Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy. Princeton University Press. - Wong, Joseph. "The adaptive developmental state in East Asia." Journal of East Asian Studies 4, no. 3 (2004): 345-362.
Week 6: Political Parties
- De Leon, Cedric, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tugal. 2009. “Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey.” Sociological Theory 27(3):193-219.
- Herbert Kitschelt. 2011. “Parties and Interest Intermediation” Chapter 13 in the
New Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, eds. Edwin Amenta Kate Nash, and Alan Scott. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Stephanie L. Mudge and Anthony S. Chen. 2014. Political Parties and the
Sociological Imagination: Past, Present, and Future Directions. Annual Review of Sociology 40:305–30
- Dalton, Russell J., and Yunhan Zhu, eds. Party politics in East Asia: citizens, elections, and democratic development. Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. – select chapters
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Week 7: Academic Writing and Presenting Workshop
Readings TBD
Week 8: Social Movements:
- Edwin Amenta, When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Making of
Social Security (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), Introduction,
Chapter 1, and conclusion.
- Ho, Ming-sho. "Occupy congress in Taiwan: Political opportunity, threat, and the Sunflower Movement." Journal of East Asian Studies 15, no. 1 (2015): 69-97.
- Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard A. Cloward. 1977. Chapter 1 (“The Structuring of Protest”) in Poor People’s Movements. New York: Vintage.
- Borland, Elizabeth and Barbara Sutton. 2007. “Quotidian Disruption and Women’s Activism in Times of Crisis, Argentina 2002-2003.” Gender & Society 41: 700-722.
Week 9: Midterm
Week 10: Culture and Politics:
- Nair, Deepak. "Saving face in diplomacy: A political sociology of face-to-face interactions in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations." European Journal of International Relations 25, no. 3 (2019): 672-697. Harvard
- Polletta, F. 2006: It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press.
- Best, Rachel Kahn. 2012. "Disease Politics and Medical Research Funding: Three
Ways Advocacy Shapes Policy." American Sociological Review 77(5):780-803.
- Bail, Christopher A. "The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the
Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks." American Sociological Review 77:855-879.
Week 11: Ethnicity and Conflict:
- Ashutosh Varshney. 2002. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Chapter 1.2)
- Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows (Pp.1-122
Week 12: Nationalism
- Calhoun, Craig. 1993. “Nationalism and Ethnicity.” Annual Review of Sociology 19:211-39.
- Johnson, Chalmers. 1962. Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press
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Week 13: Political Violence
- Owens, Peter B., Yang Su, and David A. Snow. "Social scientific inquiry into genocide and mass killing: From unitary outcome to complex processes." Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 69-84.
- Su, Yang. Collective killings in rural China during the cultural revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Week 14: Development and Welfare
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 1-34.
- Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1992), intro
- -Paul Pierson, “The New Politics of the Welfare State.” World Politics (1996).
- Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol 3, chapters 8-9.
Week 15: Globalization and Global Networks
- Bartley, Tim. 2018. “Transnational Corporations and Global Governance.” Annual Review of Sociology 44:145–65.
- Keck, Margaret E. & Sikkink, Kathryn. 1999. “Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics. International Social Science Journal 51(159): 89-101.
- Lawson, George. 2015. “Revolutions and the International.” Theory and Society 44(4): 299-319.
- Markoff, John. 2013.“Democracy’s Past Transformations, Present Challenges, and Future Prospects.” International Journal of Sociology 43(2): 13-40.
Week 16: Minority Rights:
- Yoon, Bang-Soon L. "Democratization and gender politics in South Korea." Gender, globalization and democratization(2001): 171-193. - Templeman, Kharis. "When do electoral quotas advance indigenous representation?: Evidence from the Taiwanese legislature." Ethnopolitics 17, no. 5 (2018): 461-484. - Ogai, Tokuko. "Japanese women and political institutions: why are women politically underrepresented?." PS: Political Science and Politics 34, no. 2 (2001): 207-210. - Langlois, Anthony J., Cai Wilkinson, Paula Gerber, and Baden Offord. "Community, identity, orientation: sexuality, gender and rights in ASEAN." The Pacific Review 30, no. 5 (2017): 710-728.
- Ng, Eve. "LGBT advocacy and transnational funding in Singapore and Malaysia." Development and Change 49, no. 4 (2018): 1093-1114.
Week 17: Presentations
Week 18: Presentation
Requirements:
Each week will require a book or the equivalent of a book’s length of reading. Readings along with all assignments are mandatory. The purpose of readings are not only to help familiarize yourself with the scholarly literature, but to also get you used to consuming research on a regular basis. Student must come to class each week with a 1–2-page summary of the week’s readings. These summaries should identify the research questions, the hypotheses, the methods used, and the results. The purpose of weekly writings are to get us thinking critically about how research is conducted and our ability to neatly summarize it. At the end of the semester, you will be expected two write a research proposal and give a conference-style presentation to the class.
Grading:
There are four main grades in this class:
1) Participation 30%
This includes weekly 1-2 page summaries. Writing summaries are not a substitution for participation. If you do not participate, you will not pass this class. Please also be mindful that participation is also about quality, not just quantity.
2) Midterm Exam 10%
Details TBD.
3) Final Research Proposal 30%
What is an interesting question or subject you discovered during this course? In 20 pages (not more or less) write a paper proposing a way you could investigate this research question. You should include a basic puzzle, thesis, literature review, proposed data and methodology, and hypotheses. This is a proposal, so you do not need to actually conduct the research. What I want to understand is the “so what?” of your question and research idea.
4) Final Presentation 30%
Public speaking is a fundamental part of being an academic. This is an exercise to give you experience presenting your research in a conference style setting. You will present your final paper for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Q&A from your classmates and myself.
Academic integrity:
In line with university guidelines, plagiarism and cheating are forbidden. I will check essays and writings for plagiarism. Cheating will be reported to the highest authority. I do not tolerate it.