SOCIOLOGY 560: RESEARCH SEMINAR IN
COMPARATIVE METHODS
Fall 1997
Instructor: Gilbert Rozman
Themes
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WEEK 1: SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORY and COMPARISONS of
SOCIETIES
- The comparative tradition
- Types of comparisons
- Comparative sociologists and their interests
- Methodological issues
- Focus on China, Japan, Russia, including comparison with the U.S. and
Western Europe
WEEK 2: MODERNIZATION THEORY REEXAMINED
- Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural,
Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
WEEK 3: CIVILIZATIONAL THEORY REEXAMINED
- Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
WEEK 4: COMPARATIVE CAPITALISM REEXAMINED
- Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore, National Diversity and Global
Capitalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).
- Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Network Power:
Japan and Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).
WEEK 5: COMPARATIVE COMMUNISM REEXAMINED
- Selection of readings from Soc. 308, including writings of Andrew
Walder, Jonathan Unger, Alex Inkeles, and Gilbert Rozman.
WEEK 6: JAPAN in COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
- S. N. Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View
(Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1996).
- Eiko Ikegami, The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism
and the Making of Modern Japan (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University
Press, 1995).
WEEK 7: COMPARISONS of NATIONAL IDENTITY
- Eiko Ikegami, "Citizenship and National Identity in Early Meiji Japan,
1868-1889: A Comparative Assessment," International Review of Social
History, No. 40, Supplement 3 (1995), 185-221.
- Timothy McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996).
- Edward Friedman, National Identity and Democratic Prospects in
Socialist China (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1995).
WEEK 8: COMPARISONS of TRUST and PERSONAL
NETWORKS
- Francis Fukuyama, Trust: The Social Virtues & the Creation of
Prosperity (New York: The Free Press, 1995).
- Mayfair Mei-huiYang, Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social
Relationships in China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
WEEK 9: AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM and OTHER
SOCIETIES
- Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged
Sword (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996).
WEEK 10: GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY
Neil J. Smelser, Problematics of Sociology (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1997):
- Ch. 3, "Macrosociology," 49-72.
- Ch. 4, "Global Sociology," 73-98.
Akira Iriye, Cultural Internationalism and World Order
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997):
- Ch. 4, "The Cultural Foundations of the New Globalism," 131-76.
- Conclusion, "Toward a Cultural Definition of International Relations,"
177-85.
Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a
Democratic Society (New York: Basic Books, 1996):
- Ch. 8, "The Final Arbiters of Community's Values," 217-57.
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