Prof Francine Tonkiss S219

This course is available on the MSc in Economy, Risk and Society , MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and USC), MSc in Political Sociology and MSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The course will introduce students to key approaches to globalisation in sociology and related disciplines with a focus on critical debates over the politics and economics of globalisation.

Topics include: debating and explaining globalisation; capitalism and globalisation; politics, the state and globalisation; globalisation and empire; power and inequality in the global economy; spaces of globalisation; 'alter-globalisation' movements.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.

1 x 1,500 word formative essay.

Recommended general texts: D Held & A McGrew (Eds), The Global Transformations Reader; F Tonkiss (2006) Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality: ch 1-3; F Lechner & J Boli (Eds), The Globalization Reader. A detailed reading list will be distributed at the beginning of the course, and specific key readings will be set for each topic.

Exam (70%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (30%, 2000 words) in the ST.

A formal two-hour examination in the ST (70%). A written assignment of 2,000 words (30%), two hard copies to be handed in to the Sociology Administration Office before 4.30pm on the first Wednesday of ST; a third copy to be posted to Moodle.

Attendance at all seminars and submission of all set coursework is required.