Soc 300 Week 2 Sociology Paper

Sociology of Developing Countries – SOC 300
Prerequisite: SOC100 or Instructor’s permission

Quarter: Fall 2012 (10/08/2012 – 12/23/2012)
Meeting Days/Time: Monday, 6:00 PM – 9:45PM
Room # 308

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL

1. Handelman, H. (2011). SOC 300: The Challenge of Third World Development: 2011 Custom Edition (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Longman – Pearson Custom Publishing.

2. Griffiths, R. J. (Ed.). (2011). SOC300: Developing World 11/12: 2011 custom edition (21st ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

3. Mokoli, Mondonga M. “Summary Hand-written Notes from The Challenge of Third World Development,” Fall 2012.

4, Mokoli, Mondonga M. “PowerPoint
4, The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict

- Cheating will be negatively and severely punished.
- I will give the points to those who will complete their study guides and have their binders in order
The following weekly learning outcomes will be addressed:
a. To recognize the growing problems of ethnic tensions and violence in the developing world.
b. To be able to define “ethnicity” as a social construction and to be able to discuss recent and current examples of ethnic hostilities
c. To understand the multiethnic diversity of many developing countries.
d. To understand the categories of nationality, tribe, race, and religion as they relate to ethnicity.
e. To recognize the shortcomings of modernization theory and dependency theory in approaching ethnic tensions as an issue for developing countries.
f. To understand the different levels of interethnic conflict in developing countries.
g. To learn and be able to discuss the key terms and concepts related to the issue of ethnicity in developing countries.

h. To understand different types of solutions for dealing with ethnic hostilities in developing countries—and some of the possible outcomes from attempted solutions

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