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COURSE MANUAL
Globalization Sociology Honours 2016-17
(SCIL10067) This document contains important information about the course, please read through it carefully.
Contents Key Information ............................................................................................................. 2
Aims and Objectives ...................................................................................................... 2
Teaching Methods .......................................................................................................... 4
Assessment ..................................................................................................................... 5
Further readings: ........................................................................................................... 9
Appendix 1 – General Information .............................................................................. 20
Students with Disabilities ............................................................................................ 20
Learning Resources for Undergraduates ...................................................................... 20
Discussing Sensitive Topics ........................................................................................ 21
Guide to Using LEARN for Online Tutorial Sign-Up ................................................. 21
Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties ................................................ 22
Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them. ............................ 22
ELMA: Submission and Return of Coursework .......................................................... 22
Extensions: New policy-applicable for years 1 -4 ....................................................... 23
Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts: ............................................................... 23
Plagiarism Guidance for Students: Avoiding Plagiarism ............................................ 24
Data Protection Guidance for Students ........................................................................ 24
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Key Information
Course Organiser Gezim Krasniqi Email: to be confirmed Room 4.13. Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15A George Square Guidance & Feedback Hours: Thursdays 0900-1050 Course Tutor Martin Booker Email: [email protected] Room 4.15
Guidance & Feedback Hours: xxx Lecture Location Semester 1 Fridays 09.00 – 11.00 David Hume Tower, LG.11, Course Secretary Emma Thomson Email: [email protected] Undergraduate Teaching Office Assessment Deadlines Exam: 12 noon, Monday, 21 October 2016
Essay: 12 noon, Thursday, 8 December 2016
Aims and Objectives
This course critically examines the subject of globalisation from a sociological perspective. Globalisation is a vast topic, and no one course can cover all its aspects. This course aims to give the student grounding in the most fundamental aspects of globalisation, with exploration of selected substantive topics (‘case studies’) to help root the general in the particular. We examine the concept itself, the central themes of changing communications, social networks, and experiences of space and time, and the major economic, political and ideological dimensions of globalisation. Globalisation is also a very popular topic, resulting in a lot of loose and poorly thought-through talk and writing around the subject. The view taken in this course is that, while there have been distinctive social changes associated with globalisation in recent decades, to understand this process we need to regularly relocate it in a long-term historical perspective. Globalisation has been happening for centuries, and to understand current processes of globalisation, we need to relate them to a deeper history of globalisation. We also need to be careful about talking of globalisation as if
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it were one thing. In fact this very broad term encompasses an array of different social processes that need to be to be distinguished in order to be better understood. Learning Outcomes By the end of this course students should be able to:
Demonstrate a clear grasp of the concept of globalisation and contending definitions of it.
Articulate an appreciation of the importance of historical perspective for understanding globalisation.
Indicate why concepts of ‘communication’ and ‘social networks’ have been so central to the study of globalisation.
Distinguish between economic, political and ideological dimensions of globalisation, and articulate an analytic understanding of how they interact.
Write an independently researched essay on a globalisation related topic. Convenor Gëzim Krasniqi is Career Development Fellow in Sociology. He is a political sociologist focusing on politics, nationalism, state-building and citizenship in South East Europe. His co-edited book, Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space (with D. Stjepanovic; Routledge 2015) focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. Other recent publications include: ‘Equal citizens, uneven communities: differentiated and hierarchical citizenship in Kosovo’, Ethnopolitics, 2015; ‘Albanians' Islam(s)’ in Jocelyne Cesari (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of European Islam (Oxford University Press, 2014); ‘Foreign Policy as a Constitutive Element of Statehood and Statehood Prerogative: The Case of Kosovo’, in Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl (Eds.), The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States: From Yugoslavia to Europe (Palgrave, 2014). Tutor Martin Booker is a final year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests broadly revolved around historical and comparative sociological issues. More specifically, his PhD research inquires into the factors making anti-corruption legislation successful in Britain and Germany in the 19th century. He is currently co-convener of the Historical and Comparative Sociology Study Group in the British Sociological Association
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Teaching Methods
Course delivery In weeks 1, 3, 7 & 9 sessions will consist of a one hour lecture on Friday at 9:00 David Hume Tower LG.11 followed by a class discussion at 10:00. In weeks 2, 4, 6 & 8 there will be a one hour lecture on Friday at 9:00 at Room 1 (CMB), followed by a one hour tutorial session (also in the afternoon at 13:00 or 14:00 at 1.20 Dugald Stewart Building). In week 5, there will be a one hour lecture on Friday at 9:00 followed by a MIDTERM MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM in the second hour and no tutorial. Weeks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8 offer survey lectures on major topics/areas in the study of globalisation. Weeks 3, 5, 7 & 9 offer ‘case study’ lectures on more focused topics, that help illustrate the issues raised in the previous week’s lecture. Some of these are offered by guest lecturers. Week 10 will be very open in its structure, providing space to review and evaluate the course, and ask any outstanding questions. Several of the second hour discussions are oriented around set ‘independent research questions’. These are broadly connected to the preceding lecture, and discussion can include issues raised in the lecture as well. The idea is to use your own initiative to answer and explore the question—there are no set readings. But there will be a blog associated with the course that you are strongly encouraged to contribute to in advance of the class meeting where the question is discussed. Use this as a way to share resources you have found interesting or useful in regard to the question with your fellow students. This might be a citation for a text, a link to a url, an image, or just a short comment, whatever. The course tutor will be in charge of this online forum and the second hour discussions. The point is to collectively assemble some material to support an interesting discussion in class. Using the internet (with discrimination!) is fine, but try to also use the library, and online databases, such as the IBSS database (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences), available through Library Resources web page, an invaluable starting point for any research. You are also asked to maintain a ‘reading log’ (a word doc) for weeks 2-9, in which for each lecture you choose one of the core readings and write one page of critical/reflective response to it (about 250-350 words). Give the full citation at the top of the reading you are discussing. It’s not an essay, just a short statement about something in the reading you found interesting, inspiring, useful, unexpected, provocative, troubling, contentious, and so on. If you hand in your log (8 pages in all) by the end of week 9, we will read through it and provide some feedback on your ideas and the quality of your writing. We will aim to get this back promptly, before your final essay is due. This work is not assessed and does not form part of your grade.
Commented [GK1]: Can you please confirm the room for both
the seminar after the class and the ones in the afternoon?
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Assessment
Students will be assessed by:
Assessment
Word count limit Do not exceed the word limit or penalties will be applied
Weighting Submission date Return of feedback
Multiple Choice Exam
N/A 25% 21 October (in second hour of class meeting)
11th November 2016
Long essay
3,500-4,500 words (excluding bibliography)
75% Noon on Thursday 08 December 2016
06 January 2017
Word-counts: the maximum word-count does not include your cover page and bibliography. Note that exceeding the upper limit of the word-count will incur a penalty. There is no penalty for falling below the lower limit, but note that shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark. Note: All coursework is submitted electronically through ELMA. Please read the School Policies and Coursework Submission Procedures which you will find here.
LONG ESSAYS Your long essay may focus upon any relevant aspect of globalisation. An essay topic/question can be either: (1) formulated by the student, based on one of the weekly lecture or independent research topics, and agreed by the course convenor, by the end of Week 7; or (2) chosen from a list of pre-approved essay titles to be supplied via Learn. You can use the first option as a way to customise the course to your personal interests.
Assessment Criteria In marking essays we expect to see a close and critical engagement with a relevant literature - overly generalised and descriptive work will be marked as such. The core of your bibliography should be drawn from the key readings for the course – you must engage with material from this course’s lectures, tutorials and readings. It is insufficient to rely on lectures and readings from other courses, e.g. in Sociology or Politics and International Relations, with a ‘globalisation element’. Such sources can be used, of course, to augment what has been provided in this class.
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COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS On Readings Each week you are expected to have read the core readings, which relate to the lecture. These may or may not be directly addressed in the lecture. But they will compliment the lecture, and you should be prepared to discuss them. Indicative further readings are also provided for each lecture. These may be particularly relevant to you if you decide to develop an essay topic from one of the lecture topics. Many of the core readings are available through e-journals the library has subscriptions to. Where this is the case it will be indicated by ‘(e-journal)’. Books and chapters in books will be available in the library HUB, and where possible, as pdfs downloadable from the LEARN site for the course. Some may also be accessible as e-books ‘(e-book)’. Lectures 1. Introduction: conceptualising globalisation critically (23 Sept.) We interrogate the very concept of globalisation. Is it a system? A process? When did it begin? What does it mean to look at it sociologically, historically, politically, economically? What is meant by such cognate terms as ‘globalism’ and ‘globality’? Core readings: Mann, M. (2013) ‘Globalizations’ (pp. 1-12), in The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 4:
Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge: CUP. (e-book) Meyer, J. W. (2007) ‘Globalization: Theory and Trends’, International Journal of
Comparative Sociology 48(4): 261-273. (e-journal) Scheuerman, W. (2014) ‘Globalization’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Hyperlink: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/ Therborn, G. (2000) ‘Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects,
Normative Governance’, International Sociology 15(2): 151-179 (e-journal).
Further readings: Bartelson, J. (2000) ‘Three concepts of globalization’. International Sociology 15(2):
180-196. (e-journal). Chirot, D. (2001) ‘A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing progress and
social change’, International Sociology 16(3): 341-360. (e-journal) Cooper, F. (2001) ‘What is the concept of globalization good for? An African historian’s
perspective’, African Affairs 100: 189-213. (e-journal) Giddens, Anthony (1999) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives,
London: Profile Books (HUB). Original Reith Lectures also available at: HYPERLINK http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/
Hirst, Paul and Thompson, Grahame (2002) ‘The Future of Globalization’, Cooperation and Conflict 37(3): 247-265 (e-journal).
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Inglis, T. (2010) ‘Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular’, Sociology 44(3): 507-22 (e-journal).
Luhmann, N. (1997) ‘Globalization or world society? How to conceive of modern society’, International Review of Sociology 7(1): 64-77. (e-journal)
Mann, M. (2002) ‘The Transnational Ruling Class Formation Thesis: A Symposium’ Science and Society (2001-2002) 65(4): 464-469. (e-journal)
Mittleman, James H. (2004) ‘Globalization Debates: bringing in microencounters’, Globalizations 1(1): 24-37 (e-journal).
Osterhammel, Jurgen and Niels P. Petersson (2003) ‘“Globalization”: Circumnavigating a Term’ (ch1) and ‘The Dimensions of Globalization’ (ch2) in Globalization: A Short History, Princeton University Press, pp. 1-11, 13-29.
Rosenberg, J. (2005) ‘Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem’, International Politics 42: 2-74. (e-journal)
Santos, B.S. (2006) ‘Globalizations’, Theory, Culture and Society, 23, 2-3 (e-journal). Scholte, Jan Aart (2008) ‘Defining Globalization’, The World Economy 31(11): 1471-
1502 (e-journal). Wallerstein, I. (2000) ‘Globalization or the age of transition? A long-term view of the
trajectory of the world system’, International Sociology 15(2): 249-265. (e-journal) NB: A handy source for browsing a variety of globalisation topics is: Ritzer, G., (ed.) (2008) The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell. (e-book) Open discussion on: What’s good about globalisation? What’s bad about globalisation? Is there an alternative? No preparation necessary. 2. ‘Communications’, ‘networks’ and ‘space/time compression’ (30 Sept.) If one idea ties together the diverse literature on globalisation, it is that communication has accelerated, and space and time have become ‘compressed’, as messages, information, ideas, commodities, money, people, and so on, move ever more extensively and rapidly around the globe. This is frequently linked to the idea that new kinds of social networks are forming in this new context. We explore these ideas. Core readings: Castells, Manuel (2010) ‘The Space of Flows’ (ch 6) in The Information Age: Economy,
Society and Culture, Vol. 1: Rise of the Network Society, 2nd edn., pp.407-459, Wiley Online Library (e-book). [Take a look at Chapter 1 as well if you can.]
Held et al (1999) ‘2. What is globalisation?’, at the Global Transformations Website: http://www.polity.co.uk/global/whatisglobalization.asp#whatis [this is one short section of a longer essay, feel free to read the whole thing!]
MacKenzie, D. (2011) ‘How to Make Money in Microseconds’, London Review of Books, 19 May 2011, 33(10): 16-18. (Learn)
Sassen, Saskia (2004) ‘Local Actors in Global Politics’, Current Sociology 52(4): 649-670 (e-journal).
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Further readings: Castells, M. (2010) ‘Globalisation, Networking, Urbanisation: Reflections on the Spatial
Dynamics of the Information Age’, Urban Studies 47(13) 2737-2745 (e-journal). Harvey, D. (1989) “Part III: The experience of space and time’ (pp. 201-323), The
Condition of Postmodernity, Cambridge MA and Oxford: Blackwell. Holton, R. (2005) ‘The inclusion of the non-European world in international society,
1870s-1920s, evidence from global networks’, Global Networks 5(3): 239-259. (e-journal).
Hornsby, Anne M. (2010) ‘Surfing the Net for Community: A Durkheimian Analysis of Electronic Gatherings’, in Kivisto, P. J. Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited, 5th edn., Sage/Pine Forge Press, pp. 59-91.
Knorr Cetina, K. and Bruegger, U. (2002) ‘Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets’, American Journal of Sociology 107(4): 905-950 (e-journal).
Ritzer, G. et al (2004) ‘The Globalization of Nothing: A Review Symposium of George Ritzer: The Globalization of Nothing (Pine Forge/Sage 2003)’ Thesis Eleven 76(1): 103-114. (e-journal).
Independent research question: What is meant by the term ‘glocalisation’? Is it a useful concept? 3. Case Study: Global production and China as world factory, Sophia Woodman (7 Oct.) In this class, we will consider how production processes have been remade in an era of global economic integration, exploring some different ways of thinking about the forces involved in turning China into a factory for the world. Should we think of these changes as mainly driven by capital? To what extent is the state also an actor? How about labour? What difference have efforts to create ‘global labour standards’ made? How do the different scales on which these sets of actors operate contribute to shaping the conditions of the ‘world factory’? We will also explore how the specific institutional landscape of work and residence in contemporary China has facilitated the integration of Chinese factories into global chains of production. Core readings: Bulut, Tugce & Christel Lane. 2011. The private regulation of labour standards and
rights in the global clothing industry: an evaluation of its effectiveness in two developing countries. New Political Economy, 16(1), 41-71. (e-journal)
Chan, Jenny, Ngai Pun, & Mark Selden. 2013. The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China’s new working class. New Technology, Work and Employment 28 (2): 100–115.
Chan, Chris King-Chi. 2014. Constrained labour agency and the changing regulatory regime in China. Development and Change, 45(4): 685–709. (e-journal)
Pun, Ngai and Smith, Chris. 2007. Putting transnational labour process in its place: the dormitory labour regime in post-socialist China. Work, Employment & Society 21(1), 27-45. (e-journal)
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Recommended films: To get the most out of the class discussion, it is recommended that you watch two short films about production of Apple products in China, both available on YouTube, prior to the class.
The truth of the Apple iPad: behind Foxconn’s lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3YFGixp9Jw Those were the years, when I was at Foxconn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhf0tgtXd8c
Further readings: Chan, Anita. 2003. Racing to the bottom: international trade without a social clause.
Third World Quarterly 24(6), 1011-1028. (e-journal) Chan, Chris King-Chi and Pun Ngai. 2009. The making of a new working class? A study
of collective actions of migrant workers in south China. The China Quarterly, 198: 287-303. (e-journal)
Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek, King-lun Ngok and Yan Huang. 2012. Multinational corporations, global civil society and Chinese labour: workers’ solidarity in China in the era of globalization. Economic and Industrial Democracy 33: 379-401. (e-journal)
Coe, Neil M., Dicken, Peter and Hess, Martin. 2008. Global production networks: realizing the potential. Journal of Economic Geography 8(3): 271-295. (e-journal)
Friedman, E. and Ching Kwan Lee. 2010. Remaking the world of Chinese labour: a 30-year retrospective. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48: 507–533. (e-journal)
Gallin, Dan. 2000. Trade unions and NGOs: a necessary partnership for social development. Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/5678DFBA8A99EEB780256B5E004C3737/$file/gallin.pdf
Hough, Phillip A. 2012. A race to the bottom? Globalization, labor repression, and development by dispossession in Latin America’s banana industry. Global Labour Journal, 3(2): 237-264. Available at:
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol3/iss2/ Lee, Ching Kwan Lee. 2009. Raw encounters: Chinese managers, African workers and
the politics of casualization in Africa's Chinese enclaves. The China Quarterly, 199: 647-666. (e-journal)
Lund-Thomsen, Peter, Khalid Nadvi, Anita Chan, Navjote Khara and Hong Xue. 2012. Labour in global value chains: work conditions in football manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan. Development and Change, 43(6): 1211–1237. (e-journal)
Merk, Jeroen. 2009. Jumping scale and bridging space in the era of corporate social responsibility: cross-border labour struggles in the global garment industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(3): 599-615. (e-journal)
Pahle, Simon. 2015. Bringing workers’ rights back in? Propositions towards a labour–trade linkage for the Global South. Development and Change, 46(1): 121–
147. (e-journal)
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Pun, N., and J. Chan. 2013. The spatial politics of labor in China: life, labor, and a new generation of migrant workers. South Atlantic Quarterly 112 (1): 179–90.
Wells, Don. 2009. Local worker struggles in the Global South: reconsidering Northern impacts on international labour standards. Third World Quarterly, 30(3): 567-579. (e-journal)
Questions for discussion: 1. What scales matter most for determining labour conditions in the ‘world factory’? 2. Why does the generally progressive framework of labour laws and regulations in
China not have more impact on conditions on the ground? 3. What factors hamper the implementation of global labour standards in Chinese
factories? 4. Economic processes: trade, markets, capitalism (14 Oct.) Most conceptions of globalisation emphasise the role of economics, trade, market exchange, capitalism, and high finance. With an often unspoken nod to Marx, economic processes are seen as an infrastructure that drives changes in other aspects of social life. Is this true? What has changed economically in recent decades? How uniform are these processes? What does ‘capitalism’ have to do with it? Core readings: Arrighi, G. (2009) ‘The Winding Paths of Capital: Interview by David Harvey’, New Left
Review 56: 61-94. (e-journal) Mann. M. (2013) ‘The End of Capitalism?’ Análise Social, 209, XLVIII (4.º), pp.927-45.
(e-journal). Sassen, Saskia (2010) ‘A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions
of Primitive Accumulation’, Globalizations 7(1-2): 23-50 (e-journal). Stiglitz, J. E. (2004) ‘Evaluating Economic Change’, Daedalus (Summer) 133(3): 18-25.
(e-journal) Further readings: Arrighi, G. (1994) The Long Twentieth Century, New York: Verso. Arrighi, G. (2007) Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, London:
Verso. Chirot, D. and Hall, T. D. (1982) ‘World-System Theory’, Annual Review of Sociology 8:
81-106 (e-journal). Harvey, D. (2009) ‘Reshaping Economic Geography: The World Development Report
2009’, Development and Change 40(6): 1269-1277. (e-journal). Helleiner, E. and Pickel, A. (eds) (2005) Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World,
Ithica: Cornell University Press. Konzelmann, S. Fovargue-Davies, M., and Schnyder, G. (2010) ‘Varieties of Liberalism:
Anglo-Saxon Capitalism in Crisis?’ Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Working Paper No. 403. (convener’s files, try googling it…)
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Kurlansky, M. (1998) Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, London : Cape.
Mintz, S. (1986) Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, New York: Penguin.
Piketty, T. (2014) Capital in the Twenty-First Century, A. Goldhammer (trans.), Harvard UP.
Reich, R. (2008) Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business, Icon Books.
Schularick, M. (2013) ‘Public and Private Debt: The Historical Record (1870-2010)’, German Economic Review 15(1): 191-207. (e-journal).
Stiglitz, J. E. (2002) Globalization and its discontents. London: Penguin Books. 3-22. Streeck, W. (2013) ‘The Politics of Public Debt: Neoliberalism, capitalist development,
and the restructuring of the state’, German Economic Review 15(1): 143-165. (e-journal).
Wallerstein, I. (1983) ‘The Three Instances of Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 24(1-2): 100-108. (e-journal).
Wolf, E. R. (1982) ‘The World in 1400’ (Ch 2), ‘The Movement of Commodities’ (Ch 11) and ‘The New Laborers’ (Ch 12), in Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 24-72; 310-383.
Independent research question: Is globalisation making the world more unequal? How does one define inequality for this question? 5. Case Study: Financialisation of the economy, Nathan Coombs (21 Oct.) The term ‘financialisation’ describes a shift in the nature of global capitalism since the 1980s. Rather than accumulation being driven by production, the conversion of goods and services into financial instruments to be traded on global markets has become a key driver of capitalist dynamics. Trends associated with the shift include a slowdown in economic growth, labour precarity, increasing inequality and a more crisis-prone banking system. We look at explanations for the shift including changes in the nature of corporate control in the twentieth century. We also examine how everyday life has been transformed in the era of financialisation. Core readings: Aglietta M. and Breton R. (2001). Financial systems, corporate control and capital
accumulation. Economy and Society 30 (4): 433–66 (e-journal). Krippner, G. (2005). The financialization of the American economy. Socio-Economic
Review, 3 (2): 173–208 (e-journal). Lapavitsas, C. (2011). Theorizing financialization. Work, Employment & Society 25 (4):
611-626 (e-journal). Van der Zwan, N. (2014). Making sense of financialization. Socio-Economic Review
12 (1): 99-129 (e-journal).
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Further Readings: Aglietta M. (2000). Shareholder value and corporate governance: some tricky
questions. Economy and Society 29 (1): 146–59 (e-journal). Arrighi G. (2010). The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our
Times. London/New York: Verso Christophers, Brett (2015). 'The limits to financialization'. Dialogues in Human
Geography 5: 183-200 (e-journal). Dal Maso, G. (2015). The Financialization Rush: Responding to Precarious Labor and
Social Security by Investing in the Chinese Stock Market. South Atlantic Quarterly 114 (1): 47-64 (e-journal).
De Goede, M. (2005). Virtue, Fortune, and Faith. A Genealogy of Finance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Dos Santos, P. (2009). On the content of banking in contemporary capitalism. Historical Materialism 17(2): 180–213 (e-journal).
Fligstein, N., and Shin, T. (2007). Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the U.S. Economy, 1984-2000 1. Sociological Forum 22 (4): 399–424 (e-journal).
Krippner, Greta R. (2011). Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Langley, P. (2008). The Everyday Life of Global Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Langley, P. (2008). Financialization and the consumer credit boom. Competition and Change 12 (2): 133–47 (e-journal).
Lapavitsas, C. (2013). Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All. London and New York: Verso.
Polillo, S. and Guillén M.F. (2005). Globalization pressures and the state: the worldwide spread of central bank independence. American Journal of Sociology 110 (6): 1764–1802 (e-journal).
Sinclair, TJ. (2005). The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Stockhammer, E. (2004). Financialization and the slowdown of accumulation. Cambridge Journal of Economics 28: 719–41.
Weber K., Davis G.F., and Lounsbury M. (2009). Policy as myth and ceremony? The global spread of stock exchanges, 1980–2005. Academy of Management Journal 52 (6):1319-1347 (e-journal).
****SECOND HOUR--MIDTERM MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM**** 6. Political processes: states, nations, empires, colonialism and hegemons (28 Oct.) How has politics served to integrate the world over the centuries? How are those processes changing? How has political domination, authority and legitimacy been created at ever larger scales? What are the possibilities and limits of this trend? We look at empires, the enduring powers of national states, and democratization. Core readings:
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Cooper, F. (2004) ‘Empire Multiplied: A Review Essay’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 46(2): 247-272. (e-journal)
Held, D. (2000) ‘Regulating Globalization? The Reinvention of Politics’, International Sociology 15(2): 394-408 (e-journal).
Milner, H. V. and Mukherjee, B. (2009) ‘Democratization and Economic Globalization’, Annual Review of Political Science 12:163-81. (e-journal)
Ripsman, N. M. and Paul T. V. (2005) ‘Globalization and the National Security State: A Framework for Analysis’, International Studies Review 7: 199-227. (e-journal)
Further readings: Burbank, J. and Cooper, F. (2010) Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of
Difference, Princeton UP. Darwin, J. (2008) After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000,
London: Penguin. Darwin, J. (2010) ‘Empire and Ethnicity’, Nations and Nationalism 16(3): 383-401. (e-
journal) Hall, J. A. (2000) ‘Globalization and Nationalism’, Thesis Eleven (Nov. 2000) 63:63-97.
(e-journal) Hearn, J. (2009) 'The Origins of Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction
Sphere', Sociological Research Online 14:5 (e-journal). Held, D. and Patomäki, H. (2006) ‘Problems of Global Democracy: A Dialogue’ Theory
Culture Society 23: 115. (e-journal). Kurasawa, F. (2004) ‘A cosmopolitanism from below: Alternative globalization and the
creation of a solidarity without bounds’ European Journal of Sociology (Archives européennes de sociologie) 45(2): 233-55. (e-journal)
Mann, M. (1997) ‘Is Globalization Threatening the Rise of the Nation-State?’, Review of International Political Economy 4(3): 472-496, available via the author’s website at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/mann/articles_site.htm
Mann, M. (2001) ‘Globalization and September 11’, New Left Review (Nov-Dec 2001) 12: 51-71. (e-journal)
Mann, M. (2004) ‘The First Failed Empire of the 21st Century’, Review of International Studies 30: 631-653. (e-journal)
Mann, M. (2012) The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945, Cambridge UP.
Meyer, J. W. et al (1997) ‘World Society and the Nation-State’, American Journal of Sociology 103(1): 144-81. (e-journal)
Munck, R. (2002) ‘Globalization and Democracy: A New “Great Transformation”?’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 581: 10-21 (Issue on: Globalization and Democracy).
Obydenkova, A. (2007) ‘The International Dimension of Democratization: Testing the Parsimonious Approach’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20(3): 473-90.
Sassen, S. (2000) ‘Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy’, International Sociology 15(2): 372-393. (e-journal)
Schwartzman, K. C. (1998) ‘Globalization and Democracy’, Annual Review of Sociology 24: 159-181. (e-journal)
Therborn, G. (2001) ‘Into the 21st Century: The New Parameters of Global Politics’, New Left Review (Jul-Aug 2001) 10: 87-110 (e-journal).
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Walby, S. (2003) ‘The Myth of the Nation-State: Theorizing Society and Polities in a Global Era’, Sociology 37(3): 529-546 (e-journal).
Independent research question: How is globalisation changing the nation-state? Will it survive? 7. Case Study: Globalisation and social/political movements, Hugo Gorringe (4 Nov.) Contemporary movements emerge, mobilise and operate within a global context. Ideas, tactics and resources are diffused across countries and continents and both Political Opportunities and targets of mobilisation are no longer confined to the nation state in which protest arises. In this lecture we will consider globalisation as context, process and ideal in social movement enterprises. Core readings: Castells, M. 2012. Networks of Outrage and Hope: SMs and the Internet Age. Chapter
2: ‘The Egyptian Revolution’: pp53-92. Cambridge: Polity [HM851 Cas.] (Learn) Della Porta, D & Tarrow, S 2005: ‘Transnational Processes and Social Activism’ in Della
Porta, D & Tarrow, S (eds) Transnational Protest and Global Activism: Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield [HM881 Tra.] And other chaps in this volume. (Learn)
Further readings: Castells, M 1997: The Power of Identity. [HM851 Cas.] Crossley, N 2003. ‘Even Newer Social Movements? Anti-Corporate Protests, Capitalist
Crises and the Remoralization of Society’, Organization 10(2): pp287-305 (e-journal).
Gorringe, H and Rosie, M 2006: ‘“Pants to Poverty”? Making Poverty History, Edinburgh 2005’. Sociological Research Online, 11 (1) (e-journal).
Olesen, T 2004: ‘Globalising the Zapatistas: From Third World Solidarity to Global Solidarity?’ pp.255-267 in Third World Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 2004. (e-journal).
Olesen, T. 2005. ‘World politics and social movements: the Janus face of the global democratic structure’, Global Society 19(2): pp109-129 (e-journal). Seidman, G. 2000. ‘Adjusting the Lens: What do Globalizations, Transnationalism and
the Anti-Apartheid Movement mean for Social Movement Theory?’, in J. Guidry, m. Kennedy & M. Zald (eds) Globalizations and Social Movements. Michigan: University of Michigan Press: pp339-357 [HN 16 Glo.]
Smith, J. 2002. ‘Bridging Global Divides?’ International Sociology 17(4): pp505-28. (e-journal).
Tarrow, S. 2001. ‘Transnational Politics’, Annual Review of Political Science 4: pp1-20 (e-journal).
Tsing, A. L 2005. Friction. Princeton Uni Press On Occupy see:
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Van Stekelenberg, J. 2012. ‘The Occupy Movement: Product of this Time’, Development
55(2): 224-231(e-journal). Halvorsen, S. 2012. ‘Beyond the Network? Occupy London & The Global Movement? Social Movement Studies 11(3-4):427-33 (e-journal). Uitermark, J & Nicholls, W. 2012. ‘How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement’,
Social Movement Studies 11(3-4): 295-301 (e-journal). 8. Ideological processes: religion, science, ‘-isms’, and beliefs (11 Nov.) Ideas and beliefs travel and spread around the globe, and have done for centuries. What are some of the major ways this has happened? Are there global belief systems? Much of the literature on globalisation emphasises global ‘culture’, but we focus more on a broad concept of ideology and the conditions that accompany the movement of ideas and beliefs. Core readings: Frank, D. J. and Meyer, J. W. (2007) ‘University Expansion and the Knowledge Society’,
Theory and Society 36: 287-311. (e-journal). Robertson, Roland and Inglis, David (2004) ‘The Global Animus: In the Tracks of World
Consciousness’, Globalizations 1(1): 38-49 (e-journal). Wuthnow, R. and Offutt, S. (2008) ‘Transnational Religious Connections’, Sociology of
Religion 69(2): 209-232. (e-journal). Meyer, J. W. (2010) ‘World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor’, Annual
Review of Sociology 36: 1-20. (e-journal). Further readings: Beyer, P. and Beaman, L. (eds) (2007) Religion, Globalization, and Culture, Brill. Dunch, R. (2002) ‘Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions,
and Global Modernity, History and Theory 41: 301-325. (e-journal). Gao, B. (2000) ‘Globalization and Ideology: The competing images of the
contemporary Japanese economic system’, International Sociology 15(3): 435-453. (e-journal)
Hwang, K. (2008) ‘International Collaboration in Multilayered Center-Periphery in the Globalization of Science and Technology’, Science, Technology and Human Values 33(1): 101-133. (e-journal).
Kumar, A. and Welz, F. (2001) ‘Cutlure in the World-System: An Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein’, Social Identities 7(2): 221-231. (e-journal).
Lysandrou, P. and Lysandrou, Y. (2003) ‘Global English and proregression: understanding English language spread in the contemporary era’, Economy and Society 32(2): 207-233. (e-journal).
Meyer, J. W. (2000) ‘Globalization: sources and effects on national states and societies’, International Sociology 15(2): 233-248. (e-journal).
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Schofer, E. Ramirez, F. O. and Meyer, J. W. (2000) ‘The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970-1990’, American Sociological Review 65(6): 866-887. (e-journal).
Schofer, E. and Meyer, J. W. (2005) ‘The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century’, American Sociological Review 70(6): 898-920. (e-journal).
Steger, M. B. (2008) ‘Globalization and Ideology’ in G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 367-382. (e-book)
Swatos, W. H. Jr. (2005) ‘Globalization Theory and Religious Fundamentalism’, in P. Kivisto (ed.), Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revised, 3rd edn., London: Pine Forge Press, pp. 319-339.
Tomlinson, J. (2008) ‘Cultural Globalization’ in G. Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 352-366. (e-book)
Wallerstein, I. (2010 [1976]) ‘A world-system perspective on the social sciences’, British Journal of Sociology, The BJS—Shaping Sociology Over 60 Years:167-177. (e-journal).
Wuthnow, R. (1989) Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism, Harvard UP.
Independent research question: Is there such a thing as ‘global civil society’? How would you define it? 9. Case Study: ‘Neoliberalism’ as a world ideological movement, Jonathan Hearn (18 Nov.) The term ‘neoliberalism is often used in ways that are almost synonymous with globalisation itself. Here we try to distinguish neoliberalism as an ideological formation with a history of articulation and growth. To what extent is it prescriptive versus descriptive? Is it reaching its limits, or will it continue to shape and reflect the world’s political economy? Core readings: Centano, M. A. and Cohen, J. N. (2012) ‘The Arc of Neoliberalism’, Annual Review of
Sociology 38: 317-340. (e-journal). Cerny, P. G. (2010) ‘The competition state today: from raison d’Etat to raison du
Monde’, Policy Studies 31(1): 5-21. (e-journal). Harvey, D. (2007) ‘Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction’, Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, 610: 22-44. (e-journal). Levien, M. and Paret, M. (2012) ‘A second double movement? Polanyi and shifting
global opinions on neoliberalism’, International Sociology 27(6): 724-744. (e-journal).
Further readings: Antonio, R. J. (2008) ‘The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization’ in G. Ritzer
(ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell, pp. 67-83. (e-book)
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Blyth, M. (2002) Great Transformations: Economic ideas and institutional change in the twentieth century, Cambridge: CUP.
Cerny, P. G. (2013) ‘The Paradox of Liberalism in a Globalising World’, in R. Friedman et al. (eds), After Liberalism? The Future of Liberalism in International Relations, London: Palgrave, pp. 189-214.
Comaroff, J. (2011) ‘The End of Neoliberalism?: What’s Left of the Left’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 637: 141-147. (e-journal).
Crouch, C. (1997) ‘The terms of the neoliberal consensus’, Political Quarterly 68(4): 352-360. (e-journal).
Crouch, C. (2011) The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, Polity. Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford UP. (e-book) Jessop, B. (2013) ‘Putting neoliberalism in its time and place: a response to the
debate’, Social Anthropology 21(1): 65-74. (e-journal). Mann, M. (2013) ‘Neoliberalism, rise and faltering, 1970-2000’ (pp. 129-178), in The
Sources of Social Power, Vol. 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011. Cambridge: CUP. Schmalz, S. and Ebenau, M. (2012) ‘After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the
Global Economic Crisis’, Globalizations 9(4): 487-501. (e-journal). Independent research question: Will the current economic downturn/crisis (post-2008) weaken or strengthen the neoliberal project? 10. Conclusion and review (25 Nov.) This last class is relatively open. It is an opportunity to look back at the course and get an overview, and to raise any outstanding questions. No new readings are assigned for this week, but students are encouraged to re-read or catch up on materials from the course, and to write down a few questions in advance, before coming to class. Bibliography General texts and readers Albrow, M. (1996) The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity. Cambridge:
Polity. Beck, U. (2005) Power in the Global Age. Cambridge: Polity. Bhagwati, J. (2004) In Defense of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Castells, M. (1997) The Power of Identity, Vol. II of The Information Age: Economy,
Society and Culture, Cambridge MA and Oxford: Blackwell. Cowen, T. (2002) Creative Destruction. How Globalization Is Changing the World’s
Cultures. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Dasgupta and Kiely, R. (eds.) (2006) Globalization and After. New Delhi: Sage. Diamond. J. (1998) Guns Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,
000 Years, London: Vintage.
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Giddens, Anthony (1999) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives, London: Profile Books.
Featherstone, M. Lash, S. and Robertson, R. (1995) Global Modernities, London: Thousand Oaks.
Harvey, D. (2006) Spaces of Global Capitalism. Toward a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. London: Verso.
Held, D. and McGrew, A. (eds) (2003) The Global Transformations Reader, 2nd edn, Polity.
Hirst, P. and Thompson, G. (2009) Globalization in Question, 3rd edn, Polity. James, P. (2006) Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: bringing theory back in. London:
Sage. Kreiger, J. (ed.) (2006) Globalization and State Power: A Reader. New York: Routledge. Mann, M. (2011) Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John A. Hall,
Cambridge: Polity. Mann, M. (2013) The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 4: Globalizations, 1945-2011.
Cambridge: CUP. Mittleman, J. H. (2000) The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance,
Princeton UP. O’Byrne, D. J. and Hensby, A. (2011) Theorizing Global Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Osterhammel, J. and Niels P. P. (2003) Globalization: A Short History, Princeton UP. Pieterse, J. N. (2009) Globalization and Culture. The Global Mélange. Lanham MD:
Rowman and Littlefield. Ray, L. (2007) Globalization and Everyday Life, London: Routledge. Ritzer, G. (2007) The Globalization of Nothing, 2nd edn, Sage. Ritzer, G., (ed.) (2008) The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, Blackwell. (e-book) Ritzer, G. (2011) Globalization: The Essentials. Wiley-Blackwell. Robertson, R. (1992) Globalization: social theory and global culture. London: Sage. Rosenberg, Justin (2000) The Follies of Globalisation Theory. London: Verso. Santos, B. de S. (2002) Toward a New Legal Common Sense: law, globalization and
emancipation. Cambridge UP. Sassen, S. (2007) A Sociology of Globalization, W. W. Norton. Sassen, S. (2008) Territory, Authority, Rights. From Medieval to Global Assemblages.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Scholte, J. A. (2005) Globalization: a critical introduction, 2nd edn, Palgrave Macmillan.
(e-book) Steger, M. B. (2009) Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Stiglitz, J. (2002) Globalization and its discontents. London: Penguin Books. Stearns, Peter N. (2009) Globalization in World History. London: Routledge. Therborn, G. (2011) The World: A Beginner’s Guide, Cambridge: Polity. Waters, M. (1995) Globalization, 2nd edn, London: Routledge. World systems (broadly defined, +debates) Arrighi, G. (1994) The Long Twentieth Century, New York: Verso. Braudel, F. (1979) Civilization and Capitalism, English trans., 3 Vols, New York: Harper
and Row.
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Chase-Dunn, C. and Grimes, P. (1995) ‘World-Systems Analysis’, Annual Review of Sociology 21: 187-417 (e-journal).
Chirot, D. and Hall, T. D. (1982) ‘World-System Theory’, Annual Review of Sociology 8: 81-106 (e-journal).
Frank, A. G. (1978) World Accumulation 1492-1789. New York: Monthly Review Press. Mann, M. (2010) ‘Explaining the World as a System: Can It Be Done?’ British Journal of
Sociology, The BJS—Shaping Sociology Over 60 Years:177-182. (e-journal). Robinson, W. I. (2011) ‘Globalization and the Sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: an
appraisal’, International Sociology 26(6): 723-745. (e-journal). Wallerstein, I. (1974) The Modern World-System, Vol. 1, New York: Academic Press. Wallerstein, I. (1983) ‘The Three Instances of Hegemony in the Capitalist World-
Economy’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 24(1-2): 100-108. (e-journal).
Wallerstein, I. (2004) World Systems Analysis. An Introduction. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Wallerstein, I. (2000) ‘Globalization or the age of transition? A long-term view of the trajectory of the world system’, International Sociology 15(2): 249-265. (e-journal).
Wallerstein, I. (2012) ‘Robinson’s critical appraisal appraised’, International Sociology 27(4): 524-528. (e-journal).
Wolf, E. R. (1982) Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Appendix 1 – General Information
Students with Disabilities
The School welcomes disabled students with disabilities (including those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia) and is working to make all its courses as accessible as possible. If you have a disability special needs which means that you may require adjustments to be made to ensure access to lectures, tutorials or exams, or any other aspect of your studies, you can discuss these with your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor who will advise on the appropriate procedures. You can also contact the Student Disability Service, based on the University of Edinburgh, Third Floor, Main Library, You can find their details as well as information on all of the support they can offer at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-disability-service
Learning Resources for Undergraduates
The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study techniques. Resources and workshops cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading, note-making, essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques. The study development resources are housed on ‘LearnBetter’ (undergraduate), part of Learn, the University’s virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduates Workshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities, have discussions, exchange strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at 1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above). Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the MyEd booking system. Each workshop opens for booking two weeks before the date of the workshop itself. If you book and then cannot attend, please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To be fair to all students, anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing up for future events). Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions about your own approach to studying, working more effectively, strategies for improving your learning and your academic work. Please note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so they cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read students' work. To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email [email protected] (For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language Teaching Centre).
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Discussing Sensitive Topics
The discipline of Sociology addresses a number of topics that some might find sensitive or, in some cases, distressing. You should read this Course Guide carefully and if there are any topics that you may feel distressed by you should seek advice from the course convenor and/or your Personal Tutor. For more general issues you may consider seeking the advice of the Student Counselling Service, http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-counselling
Guide to Using LEARN for Online Tutorial Sign-Up
The following is a guide to using LEARN to sign up for your tutorial. If you have any problems using the LEARN sign up, please contact the course secretary by email [email protected] Tutorial sign up will open on Tuesday 20th September 3.30pm and will close on Tuesday 27 September 2016. Step 1 – Accessing LEARN course pages Access to LEARN is through the MyEd Portal. You will be given a log-in and password during Freshers’ Week. Once you are logged into MyEd, you should see a tab called ‘Courses’ which will list the active LEARN pages for your courses under ‘myLEARN’. Step 2 – Welcome to LEARN Once you have clicked on the relevant course from the list, you will see the Course Content page. There will be icons for the different resources available, including one called ‘Tutorial Sign Up’. Please take note of any instructions there. Step 3 – Signing up for your Tutorial Clicking on Tutorial Sign Up will take you to the sign up page where all the available tutorial groups are listed along with the running time and location. Once you have selected the group you would like to attend, click on the ‘Sign up’ button. A confirmation screen will display. IMPORTANT: If you change your mind after having chosen a tutorial you cannot go back and change it and you will need to email the course secretary. Reassignments once tutorials are full or after the sign-up period has closed will only be made in exceptional circumstances. Tutorials have restricted numbers and it is important to sign up as soon as possible. The tutorial sign up will only be available until Monday 28 September 2015 so that everyone is registered to a group ahead of tutorials commencing in Week 2. If you have not yet signed up for a tutorial by this time you will be automatically assigned to a group which you will be expected to attend.
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Appendix 2 - Course Work Submission and Penalties
Penalties that can be applied to your work and how to avoid them.
There are three types of penalties that can be applied to your course work and these are listed below. Students must read the full description on each of these at: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/current_students/teaching_and_learning/assessment_and_regulations/coursework_penalties Make sure you are aware of each of these penalties and know how to avoid them. Students are responsible for taking the time to read guidance and for ensuring their coursework submissions comply with guidance.
Incorrect submission Penalty When a piece of coursework is submitted to our Electronic Submission System (ELMA) that does not comply with our submission guidance (wrong format, incorrect document, no cover sheet etc.) a penalty of 5 marks will be applied to students work.
Lateness Penalty If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for each calendar day that work is late, up to a maximum of seven calendar days (35 marks). Thereafter, a mark of zero will be recorded. There is no grace period for lateness and penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline.
Word Count Penalty The penalty for excessive word length in coursework is one mark deducted for each additional 20 words over the limit. Word limits vary across subject areas and submissions, so check your course handbook. Make sure you know what is and what is not included in the word count. Again, check the course handbook for this information. You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit. However, you should note that shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark.
ELMA: Submission and Return of Coursework
Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system, ELMA. You will not be required to submit a paper copy of your work.
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Marked coursework, grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA. You will not receive a paper copy of your marked course work or feedback. For details of how to submit your course work to ELMA, please see our webpages here. Remember, there is a 5 mark incorrect submission penalty, so read the guidance carefully and follow it to avoid receiving this.
Extensions: New policy-applicable for years 1 -4
From September 2016, there will be a new extensions policy that applies to all courses in the school from years one to four.
If you have good reason for not meeting a coursework deadline, you may request an extension. Before you request an extension, make sure you have read all the guidance on our webpages and take note of the key points below. You will also be able to access the online extension request form through our webpages.
Extensions are granted for 7 calendar days.
Extension requests must be submitted no later than 24 hours before the coursework deadline.
If you miss the deadline for requesting an extension for a valid reason, you should submit your coursework as soon as you are able, and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late submission. You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them aware of your situation.
If you have a valid reason and require an extension of more than 7 calendar days, you should submit your coursework as soon as you are able, and apply for Special Circumstances to disregard penalties for late submission. You should also contact your Student Support Officer or Personal Tutor and make them aware of your situation.
If you have a Learning Profile from the Disability Service allowing you potential for flexibility over deadlines, you must still make an extension request for this to be taken into account.
Exam Feedback and Viewing Exam Scripts:
General exam feedback will be provided for all courses with an examination. General feedback will be uploaded to the relevant course learn page within 24 hours of the overall marks for the course being returned to Students. Students who sit the exam will also receive individual feedback. The relevant Course Secretary will contact students to let them know when this is available and how to access it.
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If students wish to view their scripts for any reason, they must contact the relevant Course Secretary via email to arrange this.
Plagiarism Guidance for Students: Avoiding Plagiarism
Material you submit for assessment, such as your essays, must be your own work. You can, and should, draw upon published work, ideas from lectures and class discussions, and (if appropriate) even upon discussions with other students, but you must always make clear that you are doing so. Passing off anyone else’s work (including another student’s work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism and will be punished severely. When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own. All submissions will be run through ‘Turnitin’, our plagiarism detection software. Turnitin compares every essay against a constantly-updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work. Assessed work that contains plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero, and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to the College Academic Misconduct officer. In either case, the actions taken will be noted permanently on the student's record. For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Services’ website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/staff/discipline/plagiarism
Data Protection Guidance for Students
In most circumstances, students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living, identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. The document, Personal Data Processed by Students, provides an explanation of why this is the case. It can be found, with advice on data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living, identifiable individuals, on the Records Management section of the University website at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/records-management-section/data-protection/guidance-policies/dpforstudents
