CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

SOC1026

2006-07

Anthony King and Matthias Varul

COURSE AIMS

The central aim of this module is to examine the social, cultural, economic and political aspects of society today, focusing primarily on Europeand America, and their transformation over the last three or four decades.

The module will prepare students for more advanced study in sociology and related disciplines. By the end of the module students will be able to develop and defend their own ideas on the issues under discussion, be able to recognise and apply key concepts such as class and gender, and have a historical and critical knowledge of issues like post-fordism, post-industrialism, globalisation and regionalism.

TUTORIALS AND LECTURESThe module lasts for two semesters covering 22 lectures. There will be 10 tutorials, the organisation and timing of which will be arranged at the beginning of the module. Attendance at tutorials is mandatory.

TUTORIAL TOPICSTutorial 1: IntroductionTutorial 2: Political Economy Tutorial 3: Postmodernism Tutorial 4: The StateTutorial 5: ClassTutorial 6: FamilyTutorial 7: Religion Tutorial 8: Health and MedicineTutorial 9: Spatial MobilityTutorial 10: Revision

ASSESSMENT

The course is assessed by examination only. In the examination, to be held in May/June, students will be required to answer three questions in three hours. You are required to write two formative (i.e. practice) essays of about 2,000 words. The deadline for the first essay is Friday 8 December 2006 at 5.00 pm and for the second is Friday 16 March 2007 at 5.00pm. Essays should be placed in your tutor’s locked box on the sociology corridor by that time. Any missing essays for which extensions have not been given will be deemed late and penalties will apply. Essay questions are listed at the end of the reading list for the respective parts of the course. Together, the essay questions constitute a specimen exam paper. See final page of the respective sections of the handout for essay questions.

PENALTIESPenalties for late or non-submission of required coursework that does not form part of final module assessment (for penalties for late or non-submission of assessed work see HuSS Undergraduate Handbook, 3.1):

1. Work submitted up to two weeks late: a maximum mark of 40 is recorded, and the marker under no obligation to provide any other feedback.

2. Work submitted more than two weeks late: a mark of 0 is recorded.

3. Work not submitted by Friday 18 May (end of Semester 2): a 5% penalty is incurred for each piece of non-submitted work, to be deducted from final module mark.

4. Work that does not achieve the pass mark of 40 must be resubmitted; failure to submit the required work to pass standard by 18 May will be deemed a failure to have submitted the required amount of work and penaltyspecified in (3.) applies.

Absence from Tutorials:Missing a tutorial without a tutor's (preferably prior) permission is a disciplinary offence. A continuing failure to attend as required may lead to your exclusion from examinations (see student handbook).

Semester I:

Historical and Theoretical Frameworks

Anthony King

Outline:This half of the course focuses on the transformations of modern societies in the twentieth century and, in particular, on the shift to a new kind of social, economic and political settlement from the 1970s which new social order has been termed, post-Fordist, post-industrial or postmodern. This part of the course will go on to examine the transformation and potential decline of the nation-state and national identities in an increasingly globalised world. It goes onto look at the parallel transformation in the class structure as a result of economic and political changes. This part of the course will examine the major elements of this transformation and the key commentaries on these profound changes.

SECTION 1: POLITICAL ECONOMY

Week 1-2: Fordism and Post-Fordism M. Amin (ed.) Post-Fordism: a reader. Blackwell, esp. Chs 1,4,7,12,13Beck. U. 1992. Risk Society. London: Sage.Castells, M. 1996 The Informational City, Oxford: Blackwell.Castells, M. 1998 The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol 1-III. Oxford: Blackwell.Gomes-Casseres, B. 1996. The Alliance Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press.S. Hall and M. Jacques (ed.) (1990) New Times. Lawrence and Wishart. Also in Marxism Today, Sept 1988.Harrison, B. 1994. Lean and Mean: the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility. New York: Basic Books.Hutton, W. 1996. The State We’re In. London: VintageLane, C. 1988. ‘Industrial Change in Europe: the pursuit of flexible specialization in Britain and West Germany’ Work, Employment and Society 2(2): 141-168.S. Lash and J. Urry (1987) The End of Organized Capitalism. PolityS. Lash and J.Urry (1994) Economies of Signs and Space. SageL. Mcdowell, P. Sarre and C. Hammett (1989) Divided Nation. Hodder and StoughtonM. Piore and C. Sabel (1984) The Second Industrial Divide. Basic BooksRitzer, G. 1996. The Mcdonalidization of Society. London: Sage.Sabel, C. 1989. ‘Flexible Specialisation and the Re-emergence of Regional Economies’ in Hirst, P. and Zeitlin, J. (eds.) Reversing Industrial Decline? Oxford: Berg.Sayer, A. 1989. ‘Postfordism in Question’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 13(4): 666-695.

Smith, V. 1997. ‘New Forms of Work Organisation’ Annual Review of Sociology 23: 315-39.Tolliday, S and Zeitlin, J (eds.). 1986. The Automobile Industry and its Workers. Cambridge: PolityTolliday, S and Zeitlin, J. 1986. ‘Between Fordism and Flexibility’ in Tolliday, S andZeitlin, J (eds.) The Automobile Industry and its Workers. Cambridge: Polity.Vallas, S. 1999. ‘Re-Thinking Post-Fordism: The Meaning of Workplace Flexibility’ Sociological Theory 17(1): 68-101.Womack, J, Jones, D and Roos, D. 1990. The Machine that Changed the World. NewYork: Macmillan.Wood, S (ed.) The Transformation of Work? London: Unwin Hyman.

Week 3: The British Example Booth, A. (ed.) 1996. British economic development since 1945 Manchester ; Manchester University Press.Glynn, S and Booth, S. 1996. Modern Britain : an economic and social history. London: Routledge.Gamble, A. 1985. Britain in Decline. London: Macmillan. Gamble. A. 1988. The Free Market and the Strong State. London: Macmillan. Ch1 and 2.D. Kavanagh (1990) Thatcherism and British Politics. OUP. Ch 5.D. Kavanagh and Morris (1989) Consensus Politics from Attlee to Thatcher. Blackwell, Ch 1.Hall, S and Jacques, M. 1983. The Politics of Thatcherism. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Especially ‘Thatcherism and Conservative Politics’ by A. Gamble.Hall. S et al. 1988. The Hard Road to Renewal. London: Verso. Esp. ‘The Great Moving Right Show’.Holmes, M and Horsewood, N. 1988. ‘The post-war consensus’, Contemporary Record 2: 2.Jessop, B. et al. 1988. Thatcherism. Cambridge: Polity.Jessop, B. 1984. Authoritarian populism, two nations and Thatcherism’, New Left Review, 147.Jessop, B. 1985. ‘Thatcherism and politics of hegemony’, New Left Review, 153.D. Marquand (1988) The Unprincipled Society. Jonathon Cape. Ch 1. Marquand, D. 1988. ‘The post-war consensus and its decline’, Contemporary Record 2: 3Hutton, W. 1996. The State We’re In. London; Vintage

SECTION 2: CULTURAL CHANGE

Week 4: The Project of Modernity. Z. Bauman (1987) Legislators and Interpreters. PolityZ. Bauman (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust. PolityM. Berman (1982) All that is Solid melts into Air. Basic BooksElias, N. 1978. The civilizing process Vol.1 The history of manners.Oxford : Blackwell, 1978.

Elias, N. 1982. The Civilising Process Vol II. State formation and civilization. Oxford: Blackwell.M. Foucault (1977) Discipline and Punish. Allen LaneM. Foucault (1973) The Birth of the Clinic. TavistockM. Foucault (1971) Madness and Civilisation. TavistockM. Foucault (1987) The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow. PantheonHampson, N. The Enlightenment. London: Harmondsworth.Mosse, G. 1985. Nationalism and Sexuality. Unversity of Wisconsin.R. Porter (1990) The Enlightenment. MacMillanA. Touraine (1995) Critique of Modernity. BlackwellM. Weber (1978) Economy and Society Vol I and II. University of California

Press) esp. Vol I, Chapter II, 7-15 and Vol II Chapter X ‘Bureaucracy’M. Weber (1938) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Unwin

Week 5-7 (Week 6, reading week): Postmodernity I Z. Baumann (1992) Intimations of Postmodernity. RoutledgeD. Bell (1979) The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. HeinemannD. Bell (1973) The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. Basic BooksS. Best and D. Kellner (1991) Postmodern Theory. MacmillanA. Callinicos (1991) Against Postmodernism. Polity PressA. Giddens (1989) The consequences of modernity. PolityGiddens, A. 1993. The Transformation of Intimacy. Cambridge: Polity.D. Harvey (1989) The condition of post-modernity. BlackwellF. Jameson (1991) Postmodernism of the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Verso, also in New Left Review, 1984, No. 146King, A. 1998‘A critique of Baudrillard’s Hyperreality: towards a sociology ofpostmodernism’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 24(6): 44-67King, A. 1997. “The Postmodernity of Football Hooliganism”, British Journal ofSociology 48(4): 576-93King, A. 1999. Legitimating Post-Fordism: A Critique of Anthony Giddens’ Later Work’, Telos no.115 Spring 1999: 61-77King, A. 2006. ‘Serial Killing and the Postmodern Self’ History of the Human Sciences History of the Human Sciences, Volume 19, Number 3: 109-125S. Lash and J. Urry (1987) The end of organized capitalism. Polity PressS. Lash (1991) Sociology of Postmodernism. RoutledgeJ-F Lyotard (1986) The Postmodern Condition. Manchester UPK. Kumar (1995) From post-industrial to post-modern society. Blackwell B. Martin (1985) A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change. BlackwellM. Poster (ed.) (1988) Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings. PolityTheory, Culture and Society, especially ‘Postmodernism’, 1988 Vol 5, No. 2-3, Special

issue

SECTION 3: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION

Week 8: The Decline of the Nation State: Europe Anderson, P. 1993. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso.Cable, V. 1995 ‘The Diminished Nation-State: a study in the loss of economic power’, Daedalus 124(2): 23-53.M. Castells. 1998. The Information Age. Oxford: Blackwell.Creveld, M Van. 1999. The Rise and Decline of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Dicken, P. 1998 Global Shift. London: Paul Chapman.King, A, ‘Towards a Transnational Europe: the case of the armed forces’, European Journal of Social Theory 8(4) 2005: 321-40Mann, M. 1993 ‘Nation-States in Europe and Other Developing Continents: diversifying, developing, not dying’, Daedalus 122(3): 115-40.Milward, A. 1992 The European Rescue of the Nation State, London: Routledge.Ohmae, K. 1993 ‘The Rise of the Region-State’, Foreign Affairs 72(2):78-87.Robertson, R. 1992. Globalization. London: Sage.Schmidt, V. 1995 ‘The New World Order, Incorporated: the rise of business and the decline of the nation-state’, Daedalus 124(2): 75-106.Scott, J. 2000. England’s Troubles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Strange, S. 1995 ‘The Defective State’, Daedalus 124(2): 55-74.Woever, O. 1995 ‘Identity, Integration and Security: studying the sovereignty puzzle’, Journal of International Affairs 48(2): 389-431.Tilly, C (ed.). The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Urwin, D. 1991. Western Europe since 1945. London: Longman.Wallace, W. 1990. The Transformation of Western Europe. London: Pinter.Wallace, W. 1997. ‘Rescue or Retreat? The Nation State in Western Europe, 1945-93’ in Gowan P and Anderson P (eds.) The Question of Europe. London: VersoWilliams, A. 1996. The European Community. Oxford: Blackwell.

Week 9: Regionalism and Post-Nationalism A. Appadurai 1994 ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’, inM. Featherstone (ed.) Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. London: Sage.M. Castells 1994 ‘European Cities, the Informational Society and the Global Economy’ New Left Review 204: 18-32.D. Chryssochoou 1996 ‘Europe’s Could-be Demos: Recasting the Debate’. West European Politics 19(4):787-801.G. Delanty. 1995 Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality, London: Macmillan.A. Harding. 1997 ‘Urban Regimes in a Europe of Cities’, European Urban and Regional Studies 5(4) October: 291-311.J. Hutchinson and A. Smith. 1994 Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

A. King 2000. Football and Post-National Identity in the New Europe. British Journal of Sociology, 51(3) 2000: 419-442.J. Peck and Tickell. 1995 Business Goes Local: dissecting the business agenda in Manchester’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19(1), March: 55-78.J. Peck 1995 ‘Moving and Shaking: Business Elites, State Localism and Urban Privatism’, Progress in Human Geography 19(1), March: 16-46.S. Sassen 1991. The Global City. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.P. Schlesinger 1994 ‘Europeanness: a new cultural battlefield? in J.Hutchinson and A. Smith (eds.).A. Smith 1992 ‘National Identities and ‘Europe’: National Identity and the idea ofEuropean Union’, International Affairs 68 (1): 55-76.J. Weiler, U. Haltern and F. Mayer 1995 ‘European Democracy and its Critique’, West European Politics 18(3):4-39.

SECTION 5: CLASS STRUCTURE

Week 10-11: The New Class Structure and New Social Movements. M. Amin (ed.) Post-Fordism: a reader. BlackwellCastells, M. 1998 The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol 1-III. Oxford: BlackwellCollins, R. 1979. The Credential Society. London; Academic Press.Melucci, A. 1988. ‘Social Movements and the Democratization of Everyday Life’ in Keane, J (ed.) Civil Society and the State. London: Verso.L. Mcdowell, P. Sarre and C. Hammett (1989) Divided Nation. Hodder and StoughtonMelucci, A. 1989. Nomads of the Present. London: Hutchinson.Scott, A. 1990. Ideology and New Social Movements. London: Unwin Hyman.Touraine, A.1971. The Post-Industrial Society. New York: Random House.Touraine, A. 1981. The Voice and the Eye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Touraine, A. 1988. The Return of the Actor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Week 12: The Underclass and Conclusion.Bagguley, P and Mann, K. 1992. ‘Idle Thieving Bastards? Scholarly representations of the underclass’ in Work, Employment and Society 6: 113-120Murray, C. (1990) The Emerging British Underclass. London: IEA.Campbell, B (1993) Goliath. London: Methuen. Ch.8, 9,13, 17Wilmott and Young. Family and Kinship in East London. Harmondsworth Penguin.Gallie, D. 1994. ‘Are the unemployed the underclass?’ Sociology, 28:737-757Morris, L. 1992. Social Segregation of the Long-Term Unemployed in Harlepool’, Sociological Review, 40:344-369.Morris, L. 1993. Dangerous Classes. London: Routledge.Morris, L. and Irwin, S. 1992. ‘Employment Histories and the Concept of an Underclass’ Sociology, 26:401-420.Smith, D. 1992. Understanding the Underclass. London: Policy Studies Institute.

ESSAY QUESTIONS:

2000 word essay. Select one question from the following.

1. What, if anything, does it mean to say we live in a post-Fordist society?

2. ‘Postmodernism’ means whatever a sociologists wants it to mean and has no bearing on contemporary social change?

3. What kind of state are we in today?

4. Whatever the importance invested in new social movements by sociologists, class remains the enduring social reality in contemporary society. Discuss.

5. Should we understand underclass in terms of the inadequacies of the individual, as some commentators have suggested?

Due Date: 5.00 p.m Friday 8 December 2006.

Semester II:

Case Studies and Key Issues

Matthias Varul

OutlineThis half of the course looks at four more specific areas in the manner of case studies to examine the transitions from the traditional world through modernity into the present. It will be asked to what extent these transitions and transformations are reflected there, to what extent traditional and modernist structures and norms are resilient and to what extent the dynamics of these fields themselves contribute to the more general changes taking place. Also, the four sections may serve as mini-introductions to the specialist sociologies dealing with them.

SECTION 6: THE FAMILY AND BEYOND

Week 1-2: Traditional forms, the modern nuclear family, and symptoms of dissolution.Goldthorpe, John Ernest (1987): Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Realtionships in Britain and North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressMitterauer, Michael/Sieder, Reinhard (1982): The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present, Oxford: Blackwell.Harries, C. C. (1983): The Family in Industrial Society, London: George Allen & UnwinPrandy, Kenneth/Bottero, Wendy (2000): ‘Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Sociology, Vol.34, No.2, pp.265 - 281Parsons, Talcott (1954): ‘The Incest Taboo in Relation to Social Structure and the Socialization of the Child’, in: British Journal of Sociology, Vol.5, No.2, pp.101-117.Parsons, Talcott (1956): ‘The American Family: Its Relations to Personality and to the Social Structure’, in: Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales (eds.): Family. Socialization and Interaction Processes, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp.3-33Ariès, Philippe (1962): Centuries of Childhood, London: Jonathan Cape, part three, chapter two (From the Medieval Family to the Modern Family)Cherlin, Andrew (1983): ‘Changing Family and Household: Contemporary Lessons from Historical Research’ in: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol.9, pp.51-66.Christensen, Pia Haudrup (2000): ‘Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies’. In: Alan Prout (ed.): The Body, Childhood and Society, pp.38-59De Vault, Marjorie L. (1991): Feeding the Family, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.McRae, Susan (1999): ‘Introduction: Family and Household Change in Britain’, in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1-33.

Berthoud, Richard/McKay, Stephen/Rowlingson, Karen (1999): ‘Becoming a Single Mother’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.354-373McRae, Susan (1989): Flexible Working Time and Family Life. A Review of Changes, London: Policy Studies InstituteCoser, Rose Laub (1975): Complexity of roles as a Seedbed of Individual Autonomy, in: Lewis A. Coser (ed.): The Idea of Social Structure. Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pp.237-263

Week 3: New forms, new norms and the persistence of some old values.

Beck, Ulrich/Beck-Gernsheim, E. (1995): The Normal Chaos of Love, Cambridge: Polity Press.Giddens, Anthony (1992): The Transformation of Intimacy, Cambridge: Polity Press.Weston, K. (1991): Families We Choose, New York: Columbia University PressGittins, Diana (1985): The Family in Question. Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies, Basingstoke: Macmillan, chapters 3 and 8.Crow, Graham/Hardey, Michael (1999): ‘Diversity and Ambiguity among Lone-parent Households in Modern Britain’ in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.232-246Millar, Jane (1999): ‘State, Family and Personal Responsibility: The Changing Balance for Lone Mothers in the United Kingdom’, in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.247-261. Allen, Isabel/Bourke Dowling, Shirley (1999): ‘Teenage Mothers: Decisions and Outcomes’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.334-353.Smart, Carol (1999): ‘The “New” Parenthood: Fathers and Mothers after Divorce’ in: Elizabeth B. Silva, Carol Smart (Eds.): The New Family? London: SAGE, pp.100-114. Smart, children and divorceMcRae, Susan (1999): ‘Cohabitation or Marriage? – Cohabitation’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.172-190.Bornat, Joanna/Dimmock, Brian/Jones, David/Peace, Sheila (1999): ‘Generational Ties in the “New” Family: Changing Contexts for Traditional Obligations’, in: Elizabeth B. Silva, Carol Smart (Eds.): The New Family? London: SAGE, pp.115-28. Silver, Lee M. (1997): Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family, New York: Avon Books Coward, Rosalind (1993): Our Treacherous Hearts. Why Women Let Men Get Their Way, London/Boston: Faber and Faber Henwood, Karen/Procter, Joanne (2002): ‘The ”Good Father“: Reading Men’s Accounts of Paternal Involvement during the Transition to First Time Fatherhood’. In: British Journal of Social PsychologyWeeks, Jeffrey/Heaphy, Brian/Donovan, Catherine (1999): ‘Partners by Choice: Equality, Power and Commitment in Non-heterosexual Relationships’ in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.111-128.

Contemporary Society Family issueScott, Jacqueline (1997): ‘Changing Households in Britain: Do Families Still Matter?’ in: Sociological Review, Vol.45, No.4, pp.591-620.Gittins, D. (1993): The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies, Basingstoke: Macmillan

SECTION 7: RELIGION AFTER SECULARISATION

Week 4: Pluralism and the decline of official church religion, and the commodification of religionBerger, Peter L. (1967): The Sacred Canopy. Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, New York: Anchor Books.Luckmann Thomas (1967): The Invisible Religion. The Problem of Religion in Modern Society, New York: Macmillan, chapters IV-VIBailey, Edward (1990): ‘The Implicit Religion of Contemporary Society: Some Studies and Reflections’, in: Social Compass, Vol.37, No.4, pp,483-97Bruce, Steve (2002): God Is Dead. Secularization in the West, Oxford: BlackwellDobbelaere, Karel (1993): ‘Church Involvement and Secularization: Making Sense of the European Case’ in: Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford, Karel Dobbelaere (1993): Secularization, Rationalization and Sectarianism, pp.19-36Davie, Grace (2000): ‘Religion in Modern Britain: Changing Sociological Assumptions’ in: Sociology, Vol.34, No.1, pp.113-128.Davie, Grace (2000): Religion in Modern Europe. A Memory Mutates, Oxford: Oxford University PressMartin, David (1991): 'The Secularization Issue: Prospect and Retrospect'. In British Journal of Sociology, Vol.42, No.3, pp.465-74Beckford, James A. (1992): 'Religion, Modernity, Post-modernity'. In: Bryan Wilson (ed.): Religion: Contemporary Issues, London: Bellew, pp.11-23. Stark, Rodney (2001): 'Efforts to Christianize Europe, 400-2000'. In: Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol.16, pp.105-123.Guiso, Luigi/Sapienza, Paola/Zingales, Luigi (2003): ‘People’s Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes’, in: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol.50, pp.225-82.Percy, Martyn (2000): 'The Church in the Market Place: Advertising and Religion in a Secular Age'. In: Journal of Contemporary Religion. Vol.15, pp.97-119Peck, Janice (1993): 'Selling Goods and Selling God: Advertising, Televangelism and the Commodity Form'. In: Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol.17, No.1, pp.5-24O’Guinn, Thomas/Belk, Russell W. (1989): ‘Heaven on Earth: Consumption at Heritage Village, USA’. In: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.16, No.2, pp.227-38.Smith, Chris/ Lundquist Denton, Melinda (2005): Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Life of American Teenagers, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Week 5: Invisible Religion, New religious movements, fundamentalismLuckmann, Thomas (1967): The Invisible Religion. The Problem of Religion in Modern Society, New York: Macmillan, chapter VII (Modern Religious Themes)

King, Christine (1993): ‘His Truth Goes Marching On: Elvis Presley and the Pilgrimage to Graceland’ in: Ian Reader, Tony Walter (Eds.): Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.92-104.Belk, Russell W./Wallendorf, Melanie/Sherry, John F. (1989): ‘The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey’, in: Journal of consumer Research, Vol.16, No.1, pp1-38.Ostling, Michael (2003): ‘Harry Potter and the Disenchantment of the World.’ In: Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol.18, No.1, pp.3-23Zepp Jr., Ira G. (1997): The New Religious Image of America. The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center, Niwot: University Press of ColoradoVarul, Matthias Zick (2002): ‘Religion vs. Consumerism. Protestantism and Islam under Consumer Culture’, http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/mzv201/ReliCon.doc

Beckford, James A./Levasseur, Martine (1986): ‘New Religious Movements in Western Europe’ in: James A. Beckford (Ed.): New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, London: SAGE, pp.29-54.Bruce, Steve (1996): Religion in the Modern World. From Cathedrals to Cults, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 7 (The New Religions of the 1970s) and 8 (The New Age)Bowman, Marion (1993): ‘Drawn to Glastonbury’ in: Ian Reader, Tony Walter (Eds.): Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.29-62.Palmer, Susan J. (1995): ‘The Raëlian Movement International’ in: Robert Towler (Ed.): New Religions and the New Europe, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, pp.194-210.Robertson, Roland (1989): 'Globalization, Politics, and Religion'. In: James A. Beckford, Thomas Luckmann (eds): The Changing Face of Religion. London: SAGE, pp.10-23Sharot, Stephen (1992): 'Religious Fundamentalism: Neo-traditionalism in Modern Society'. In: Bryan Wilson (ed.): Religion: Contemporary Issues, London: Bellew, pp.24-45Thompson, Kenneth (1990): ‘Secularization and Sacralization’. In: Jeffrey C Alexander/Piotr Sztompka (eds): Rethinking Progress. Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the 20th Century, Boston: Unwin HymanZeidan, David (2002): 'Typical Elements of Fundamentalist Islamic and Christian Theocentric Worldviews'. In: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol.13, No.2, pp.207-228Hyman, Lawrence (1997): 'Whatever Happened to Atheism?' In: Skeptic, Vol.5, No.2

SECTION 8: HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Week 6-7: Transformations of the Sick Role – from cure to careParsons, Talcott (1951): The Social System; London: Routledge chapter X (Social Structure and Dynamic Process: The Case of Modern Medical Practice)Freidson, Eliot (1970): Profession of Medicine, New York: Harper and Row.Strauss, Anselm L./Glaser, Barney G. (1975): Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life, Saint Louis: Mosby.

Conrad, Peter (1992): ‘Medicalization and Social Control’, in: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol.18, pp. 209-32.Fox, Renée C. (1981): ‘The Medicalization and Demedicalization of American Society’ in: Peter Conrad/Rochelle Kern (eds.): The Sociology of Health and Illness, New York: St Martin’s, pp.527-534.Charmaz Kathy (2000): ‘Experiencing Chronic Illness’. In: G.L. Albrecht, R. Fitzpatrick, S.C. Scrimshaw (eds): Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, London: SAGE, pp.277-92Williams, Simon, J. (2000): ‘Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption or Biographical Disruption as Chronic Illness? Reflections on a Core Concept’, in: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.22, No.1, pp.40-67Bury, Michael (1991): ‘The Sociology of Chronic Illness: A Review of Research and Prospects’. In: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.13, pp.451-68Gregory, Susan (2005): ‘Living with Chronic Illness in the Family Setting’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.27, No.3, pp.372-92.Crawford, Robert (1994): ‘The Boundaries of the Self and the Unhealthy Other: Reflections on Health, Culture and AIDS’. In: Social Science & Medicine, Vol.38, pp.1347-65Crossley, Michele (1998): ‘“Sick Role” or “Empowerment”? The Ambiguities of Life with an HIV Positive Diagnosis’, in: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.20, No.4, pp.507-31Martin, Emily (1994): Flexible Bodies. Tracking Immunity in American Culture - From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, Boston: BeaconNettleton, Sarah (1997): ‘Governing the Risky Self. How to Become Healthy, Wealthy and Wise’. In: A. Peterson/R. Bunton (eds): Foucault, Health and Medicine, London: Routledge, pp.207-22Glassner, Barry (1990): ‘Fit for Postmodern Selfhood’. In: H. S. Becker/M. McCall (eds): Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.215-43Fox, Nicholas (1998): 'The Promise of Postmodernism for the Sociology of Health and Medicine'. In: G. Scambler/P. Higgs (eds): Modernity, Medicine and Health. Medical Sociology towards 2000, London/New York: Routledge, pp.29-45Williams, Simon/Bendelow, Gillian (1998): ‘In Search of the „Missing Body“. Pain, Suffering and the (Post)Modern Condition’. In: G. Scambler, P Higgs (eds): Modernity, Medicine and Health. Medical Sociology Towards 2000, London/New York: Routledge, pp.125-45Hughes, David (1991): ‘The Reorganisation of the National Health Service: The Rhetoric and Reality of the Internal Market’, in: Modern Law Review, Vol.54, No.1, pp.88-103.Lupton, Deborah (1997): ‘Consumerism, Reflexivity and the Medical Encounter’, in: Theory Culture and Society, Vol.45, No.3, pp.373-81Young, J. T. (2004): ‘Illness Behaviour: A Selective Review and Synthesis’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.26, No.1, pp.1-31.Hardey, Michael (1999): ‘Doctor in the House: The Internet as a Source of Lay Health Knowledge and the Challenge to Expertise’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.21, No.6, pp.820-35.

Bayles, Michael D. (1981): ‘Physicians as Body Mechanics.’ In: Arthur L. Caplan/H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr./James J. McCartney (eds): Concepts of Health and Disease. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp.167-78Shilling, Chris (2002): ‘Culture, the “Sick Role” and the Consumption of Health’, in: British Journal of Sociology, Vol.53, No.4, pp.621-38 Varul, Matthias Z (2006) ‘Chronic Illness and Chronic Health. Obsolescence and Persistence of Parsons’ Sick Role’

Week 8: Focus on population and lifestyle: new public healthKnowles, John H. (1981): ‘The Responsibility of the Individual’. In: P. Conrad, R. Kern (eds): The Sociology of Health and Illness. Critical Perspectives, New York: St. Martin’s, pp.452-68Crawford, Robert (1980): ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’. In: International Journal of Health Services, Vol.10, pp.365-88Crawford, Robert (2000): ‘The Ritual of Health Promotion’, in: Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Michael Calnan (eds.): Health, Medicine and Society – Key Theories and Future Developments, London: Routledge pp.219-35Pfaffenberger, R.S. et al. (2001): ‘A History of Physical Activity, Cardivascular Health and Longevity: the Scientific Contributions of Jeremy N Morris DSc, DPH, FRCP’ in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol.30, pp.1184-92Davison, Charlie/Davey Smith, George/Frankel, Stephen (1991): ‘Lay Epidemiology and the Prevention Paradox: the Implications of Coronary Candidacy for Health Education’. In: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.13, pp.1-19Blaxter, Mildred (1997): ‘Whose Fault Is It? People’s Own Conceptions of the Reasons for Health Inequalities’ in: Social Science & Medicine, Vol.44, No.6, pp.747-56.Armstrong, David (1993): ‘Public Health Spaces and the Fabrication of Identity’. In: Sociology, Vol.27, pp.393-410Haraway, Donna (1991): Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, London: Routledge, chapter ten (The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse)O'Neill, John (1990): 'AIDS as a Globalizing Panic'. In: Mike Featherstone (ed.): Global Culture. Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, London: SAGE, pp.329-42Lupton Deborah (1995): The Imperative of Health. Public Health and the Regulated Body, London: SAGEde Swaan, Abram (1990): The Management of Normality. Critical Essays in Health and Welfare, London/NewYork: Routledge, chapter 3 (Expansion and Limitation of the Medical Regime)Bunton, Robin/Burrows, Roger (1995): ‘Consumption and Health in the „Epidemiological” Clinic of Later Modern Medicine.’ In: Robin Bunton/Sarah Nettleton/Roger Burrows (eds): The Sociology of Health Promotion. Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk, London/New York: Routledge, pp.206-22Varul, Matthias Z (2001): ‘Aestheticised Ethics: A Case of Implicit Moralisation of Health Consumption’ http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/mzv201/Esth_Ethics.doc

Conrad Peter/ Walsh, Diana Chapman (1992): ‘The New Corporate Health Ethic: Lifestyle and the Social Control of Work’. In: International Journal of Health Services, Vol.22, pp.89-111Davey Smith, George (1996): ‘Income Inequality and Mortality: Why Are They Related?’ In: British Journal of Medicine, Vol.312, pp.987-8Davey Smith, George/Hart, Carole/Blane, David/Gillis, Charles/Hawthorne, Victor (1996): ‘Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Mortality: Prospective Observational Study’. In: British Medical Journal, Vol.314, pp.547-52

SECTION 9: SPATIAL MOBILITY

Week 9: MigrationPeach, Ceri (1997): ‘Postwar Migration to Europe: Reflux, Influx, Refuge’ in Social Science Quarterly, Vol.78, pp.269-283Castles, Stephen/Miller, Mark J. (1998): The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World, Basingstoke: Palgrave.Lash, Scott/Urry, John (1994): Economies of Signs and Space, London: SAGE, chapter 7: ‘Mobile Subjects: Migration in Comparative Perspective’Cohen, Robin (1997): Global Diasporas. An Introduction, London: UCL Press (chapter six: Cultural Diasporas: The Caribbean Case)Westwood, Sallie (2000): ‘The Politics of Belonging. Imagining America, Remembering Home: Latino/a Cultures in Urban America’ in: Sallie Westwood, Annie Phizacklea (Eds.): Trans-nationalism and the Politics of Belonging, London: Routledge, pp.57-69.Phizacklea, Annie (2000): ‘The Politics of Belonging. Sex Work, Domestic Work: Transnational Household Strategies’ in: Sallie Westwood, Annie Phizacklea (Eds.): Trans-nationalism and the Politics of Belonging, London: Routledge, pp.120-145Busteed, M. A./Hodgson, R. I. (1996): ‘Irish Migrant Responses to Urban Life in Early Nineteenth Century Manchester’, in: Geographical Journal, Vol.162, No.2, pp.139-153.Salih, Ruba (2002): ‘Shifting Meanings of “Home”. Consumption and Identity in Moroccan Women’s Transnational Practices between Italy and Morocco’ in: Koser, Khalid/Al-Ali, Nadje (Eds.) (2002): New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home, London: Routledge, pp.51-67. Harbottle, Lynn (1996): ‘Bastard Chicken or ghormeh-sabzi? Iranian Women Guarding the Health of the Migrant Family.’ In: Stephen Edgell/Kevin Hetherington/Alan Woode (eds): Consumption Matters, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.204-26Phizacklea, Annie (2000): ‘Economic Ethnoscapes. Men, Women and Business.’ in: Sallie Westwood, Annie Phizacklea (Eds.): Trans-nationalism and the Politics of Belonging, London: Routledge, pp.146-161.Castles, Stephen (2003): ‘Towards a Sociology of Forced Migration and Social Transformation’ in: Sociology, Vol.37, No.1, pp.13-34.Wood, William (2001): ‘Ecomigration: Linkages between Environmental Change and Migration’, in: Aristide Zolberg, Peter M. Benda (Eds.): Global Migrants, Global Refugees. Problems and Solutions, New York: Berghahn, pp.42-61.Verstrate, Ginette (2003): ‘Technological Frontiers and the Politics of Mobility in the European Union’. Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castañeda, Anne-Marie Fortier, Mimi Sheller

(Eds.): Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, Oxford: Berg, pp.225-249.Law, Lisa (2003): ‘Transnational Cyberpublics: New Political Spaces for Labour Migrants in Asia’ in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.26, No.2, pp.234-252.Waldinger, Roger/Fitzgerald, David (2004): ‘Transnationalism in Question’ in: American Journal of Sociology, Vol.109, No.5, pp.1177-1195Nederven Pieterse, Jan (2001): ‘Hybridity, So What? The Ambiguity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition’, in: Theory, Culture & Society, Vol.18, No.2-3, pp.219-45, p. 219

Week 10: TourismHarp, Stephen L. (2001): ‘Travel and Tourism.’ In: Peter N. Stearns (ed.): Encyclopædia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000, Volume 5, pp.229-45Cross, Gary (1993): Time and Money. The Making of Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, chapterUrry, John (1990): ‘The “Consumption” of Tourism’. In: Sociology, Vol.24, No.1, pp.23-35.Urry, John (2002): The Tourist Gaze, London: SAGERojek, Chris/Urry, John (1997): 'Transformations of Travel and Theory'. In: Chris Rojek/John Urry (Eds.): Touring Cultures. Transformations of Travel and Theory, London/New York: Routledge, pp.1-19Welk, Peter (2004): ‘The Beaten Track: Anti-Tourism as an Element of Backpacker Identity Construction’ in: Greg Richards, Julie Wilson (Eds.): The Global Nomad. Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice, Clevedon: Channel View, pp.77-91Craik, Jennifer (1997): ‘The Culture of Tourism’ in: Chris Rojek/John Urry (Eds.): Touring Cultures. Transformations of Travel and Theory, London/New York: Routledge, pp.113-136.Prideaux, Bruce (2002): ‘The Cybertourist’, in: Graham M. S. Dann (Ed.): The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World, Wallingford: CABI, pp.317-336.

Week 11: Inter-relations and conclusions

Essay Questions

1. How do post-traditional forms of family life relate to the 1950s model nuclear family? 2. “Religion has become a consumer commodity.” Discuss the validity and the possible implications of this statement. 3. In what ways is the social role of the chronic patient different from that of the acutely ill patient?4. Does the increased mobility of migrants and tourists lead to a globalised social identity?5. “With the nuclear family disolving, church religion vanishing, and professional authority undermined there is nothing left to hold our society together.” Discuss.

Due Date: Friday 16 March 2007 at 5.00pm