Objectives and competences
To acquaint students with basic social and sociological perspectives and terms that are most frequently brought up and discussed inside the globalization discourse.
Build and strengthen student awareness of global problems that require transnational cooperation and efforts (poverty, criminal, degradation of environment and depletion natural resources).
Content (Syllabus outline)
Students are encouraged to deepen their understanding of what is widely know under the often used and misused term of globalization. They are confronted with problems that surround the definition of the term.
Students study and examine following concepts/ideas that can be located in the realms of:
- capitalistic world order
- world risk society
- global culture
- global economy
- global politics
Students are acquainted with key challenges that surround globalization:
- Globalization and labor markets
- Globalization and income inequality
- Globalization and nation-state
- Globalization and the environement
Learning and teaching methods
• Frontal method
• A/V presentations
• Work in groups – group disscussions
• Reading and comprehension of sources
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knows and understands:
Character of the global society
Processes that shape it
Problems and dilemmas that surfaced with the coming of a “global village”.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Ability to comprehend the idea of social change, its pattern and consequences of current world trends.
Students are able to think autonomously in a sociological manner, i.e. they are encouraged, with the acquired deepened knowledge about the world that surrounds them, and about processes that shape their lives in a global village, to have critical stance to different views.
Readings
1) Beck, Ulrich. 2003. Kaj je globalizacija? : zmote globalizma - odgovori na globalizacijo. Ljubljana: Krtina.
2) Svetličič, Marjan. 2004. Globalizacija in neenakomeren razvoj v svetu. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede.
3) Mlinar, Zdravko. 1994. Individuacija in globalizacija v prostoru. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti.
Dodatni viri:
4) Martin Hans-Peter, Schumann Harald. 1997. Pasti globalizacije. Ljubljana: Co Libri.
5) Soros, George. 1999. Kriza globalnega kapitalizma. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.
6) Held, David, McGrew, Anthony. 2002. Globalization/Anti-Globalization. Cambridge: Polity.
Drugi teksti v znanstveni in strokovni (domači in tuji) literaturi, na katere tekom semestra opozori izvajalec predmeta.
