Route Planning Multiple Stops

Culture, diversity and globalization

Faculty of Graduate Degree in International Studies


Culture, diversity and globalization

INT 6030 - (3 credits)
Classroom B-4220 - PAV. 3200 JB
Plan • Fall 2010 Course


Teacher: Viviana Fridman
E-mail: vivifridman@gmail.com
Course Schedule: Wednesdays from 9:00 to 12:00 hours
Consultation: Wednesday 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Website: http://culture -globalisation.blogspot.com /


1. Course Description
The seminar's overall objective is to understand the material and symbolic dimensions of culture in the era of globalization. It aims to provide the tools to explore the discourse, values and codes involved in the construction of contemporary culture from the concepts of identity and difference. It also intends to examine the tensions and transformations that shape cultural figures as they mediate the production, representation and negotiation of individual and group memberships in societies and in their relationships.


2. Teaching methods
œ Education exhibit theoretical issues, will discuss the basic concepts needed to understand the cultural issues in the era of globalization, offering a contextualization of the great debates examined.
· For each course there will be a set of readings that will be shown the basis of a seminar paper.
· The students will occur in developing questions on the required reading texts for the discussion and make presentations on topics related to issues discussed in these texts.
· Under some specific courses there will be guest speaker-es-es.
• It will be a consultation period with the teacher to support the achievement of practical work.

3. Assessment methods
· Minutes of Reading: The student (s) will submit in writing to the 6th week of classes (October 6), an account of the texts of Samuel Huntington, James Cohen and Ronald Inglehart & Pippa Norris, of about 10 pages (line spacing and a half) which will be presented: a) the themes, concepts or arguments that link Material for the study and b) the questions raised by their reading (30% of final grade).
· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on one of the required reading texts (from the beginning of the session) articulated a topical issue: the student (s) how an event, a process or product associated with cultural the current drawing concepts, arguments and views articulated in the texts under study for class discussion. This commentary takes the form of an oral presentation lasting about 12 minutes. A plan or a summary of that review must be submitted in writing in early trading. (20% of final grade).
· Work Session: Students will conduct an essay on a topic of their choice, associated with one or the other issues being addressed. A trial design with an annotated bibliography must be submitted no later than at the 10th meeting (November 3). The written test with a maximum length of 15 pages (line spacing and a half) will be presented at the last meeting. (50% of the final grade for the plan and the test set). Note


- Delays Barring exceptional circumstances, justified in writing, no delay will be allowed.
- Entries must be submitted in paper format.
- Documents sent by electronic means (fax and email) are not accepted.
- A noted plagiarism is punished by an F with no possibility of recovery.


4. Calendar of activities and readings

** The readings are available to the student (s) of the Service Research and Documentation Department of Political Science (C-4052).

Week 1 - Wed. September 1
plan presented during

Week 2 to 8 September

Concept of Culture [1] Laberge, Yves (1996), "From culture to culture. Boundaries of a multi-net concept, "Laval theological and philosophical, vol. 52, No. 3, 1996 805-825.
http://www.erudit.org/revue/LTP/1996/v52/n3/401024ar.pdf
[2] Excerpts from Chapter IV: "Culture, civilization and ideology," Guy Rocher, Introduction to SOCIOLOGY GENERAL. Part One: Social Action, Chapter IV, pp. 101-127. Montreal: Editions Hurtubise HMH, 1992, third edition.
http://jmt-sociologue.uqac.ca/www/word/387_335_CH/Notions_culture_civilisation.pdf

Week September 3 to 15
cultural dimension of globalization
[1] Wolton, D. (2003), The Other Globalisation, Paris, Flammarion, P. 9-44 [2] Interview with Dominique Wolton (L'Express, 24/04/2003).
[3] Warnier, Jean-Pierre (2004), The globalization of culture, Paris, La Découverte, pp. 3-19.
[4] Cunningham-Sabot, Emmanuele C. Baudelle and Guy (2008), " Globalization for France and the United States: semantic argument against media debate ", in Geographic Information No. 2 - Vol. 72, pp. 6-16
http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=LIG_722_0006

Week September 4 to 22
notions of identity and difference
[1], Huntington S. (1993), "The Clash of Civilizations?", Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993:
http://history.club.fatih.edu.tr/103 20Huntington%%% 20of% 20Clash 20Civilizations%% 20full 20text.htm
[2] Cohen, J. (2005), Spanglish America Paris: Editions du Felin, 248 p. (Introduction) http://www.univ-paris8.fr/scpo/spip/spip.php?article51
[3] Inglehart, R. & Norris, P. (2003), "The true clash of civilizations", Foreign Policy, March-April 2003, pp. 63-70.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2003/0304clash.htm

Week September 5 to 29
Conference Victor Armony (exceptionally 9.30)
"The debate on intercultural Quebec
[1] Armony, V. (2007), explained in Quebec immigrants, Ch 3, Montreal, VLB.
[2] Summary Report the Bouchard-Taylor (2008):
http://www.accommodements.qc.ca/documentation/rapports/rapport-final-abrege-fr.pdf

Week October 6-6 - Return of CR
Cultural diversity and social capital
[1] Putnam, R. (2007), "E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century", Scandinavian Political Studies, 30 (2), 137-174: http://polisci.berkeley.edu/courses/coursepages/Fall2007/ ps164a/PS164A-PutnamandSkytte-2007.pdf
[2] Robitaille, A. (2007), "The night she diversity to society? "Le Devoir, p. 1, Montreal, 16 August, 2007.
[3] Facchini, Francis (2008), "Culture, cultural diversity and economic development. A critical perspective of recent work, "Revue Tiers Monde, 2008 / 3 (No. 195), p. 523-554. http://www.cairn.info/revue-revue-tiers-monde-2008-3-page-523.htm

Week October 7 to 13
Global Citizenship and Human Rights
[1] Van Praagh, Shauna (2006), and Kirpan Hijab: A History of swashbuckling, Laval, PUL.
[2] Gilabert, Pablo (2007), "The global justice, multiculturalism and the demands of immigrants "Philosophically, No.34 Vol. 1, p. 41-60
http://www.erudit.org/revue/philoso/2007/v34/n1/015862ar.pdf

Week Oct. 8 to 20
Reading Week

Week October 9 to 27 .
Culture, religion and globalization
[1] Paul Valadier SJ (2001), "Globalization and Cultures, Education, 2001/11 (Volume 395), pages 505-515, http://www.cairn. info/revue-etudes-2001-11-page-505.htm
[2] Pace, Enzo (2007), "Globalization and the conflict of values in middle eastern company", in Beyer, Peter and Lori G. Beaman Religion, Globalization and Culture, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 503-525.

Week November 10 to 3 - Discount plan for TF
Globalization and Social Inequality

[1] Centre Tricontinental (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) (2000), Cultures and Globalization: Resistance and Alternatives, pp .5-29, Paris-Montréal, L'Harmattan, 254 p.
[2] Dupuis-Deri, Francis (2009), The anti-globalization, Ch 2, pp.33-70, Montreal: Boréal.

Week November 11 to 10
Taste and cultural practices in a globalized world
[1] Fridman, V. & Ollivier, M. (2004), "Opening ostentatious diversity and cosmopolitanism. To a new configuration discursive ', Sociology and Society, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 105-126.
http://www.erudit.org/revue/socsoc/2004/v36/n1/009584ar.html
[2] Lipovetsky, Gilles (2008), culture-world answer to a confused society, Paris: O. Jacob, ch. 2, pp. 73-117.

Week November 12 to 17
Cultural Hegemony and glocalization
[1] Hannigan, J. (2003), "The global entertainment economy" in Globalization and Challenges, (ed. Cameron D. and Gross Stein, J.), Montréal, PUM, 219 p., pp. 31-63
and [2] Canclini, N. García (2007), Latin America in the Twentieth Century, Ch 5, Laval, PUL, 118 p.

Week November 13 to 24
New technologies, new cultures? I
[1] Block, D. (2004), "Globalization, Transnational Communication and the Internet", in International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS), Vol 6, No.1
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001385/138569f.pdf # page = 39
[2] Deibert, Ronald (2003), "Challenging the Internet: lobbying anti-MAI", in Cameron, and David Gross Stein, Janice, and Global Challenges: Rethinking the Culture of Communication , Montreal University Press Montreal, pp. 109-131.
[3] Interview with Dominique Wolton:
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/342905.FR.php

Se week 14 - December 1
New technologies, new cultures?
II [1] Grant, P. and Wood, C. (2004), "Technology" pp.431-459, in The Trade Wars: Popular Culture and Globalization, Montreal, Boréal, 596 p.
[2] Ansart, Pierre (2002), "The utopia of communication," Cahiers international sociology Presses Universitaires de France, 2002 / 1 - No. 112, pages 17 to 43.
http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_REVUE=CIS&ID_NUMPUBLIE=CIS_112&ID_ARTICLE=CIS_112_0017

Week December 15 to 8 - Delivery of final work
Synthesis


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