Soc 498 Globalization Seminar

Analysis of the ways in which economic patterns that reach across national boundaries affect the security of communities and their standards of living. Topics include how different economic classes fare in the rapid reshuffling of national economies that globalization entails; the role of international institutions in shaping economic globalization; the experience and responses of workers as a group; and the role of states in facilitating or resisting the adverse impacts of globalization. Also offered for graduate-level credit as Soc 598 and may be taken only once for credit.