Sociology of the New Economy: Schedule

Schedule

September 2

Introduction.

WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT THE NEW ECONOMY?

September 4

"Cost-Cutting in New York, but a Boom in India." In New York Times, August 11, 2008.

Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chap. 2.

U.S. gross domestic product, 1947-2008.

U.S. productivity growth by major sector, 1947-2000.

September 9

Daniel Bell, "From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development." In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (Basic Books, 1976), 47-119.

Changes in US industrial employment, 1890-2002.

Engine vs. motherboard.

Average annual growth rates of U.S. science & engineering occupations: 1960-2000.

R&D investment by selected country: 1981-2006.

Situses: locations of occupational activities.

September 11

Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chap. 1.

September 16

Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 2-4.

September 18

First take-home exam due.

INEQUALITY AND RISK

September 23

Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chaps. 4-5.

Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chap. 13.

Dalton Conley, "Rich Man's Burden." In New York Times, September 2, 2008.

US poverty by race, 1999.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Employment Statistics.

September 25

Diditi Mitra, "Driving Taxis in New York City: Who Wants to Do it?" In S. Javaraman and I. Ness (eds.), The New Urban Immigran Workforce (M.E. Sharpe, 2005), 33-56.

Martin Carnoy, "New Technology and Job Markets." In Sustaining the New Economy (Harvard University Press, 2000), 14-55.

September 30

Thomas L. Friedman, "'What, Me Worry?'" In New York Times, April 29, 2005.

Daniel Bills, "Schooling and Socioeconomic Success" and "Education and Work in the Postindustrial Society." In The Sociology of Education and Work (Blackwell, 2004), 14-36 and 83-111.

Henry M. Levin, "Pedagogical Challenges for Educational Futures in Industrializing Countries." Comparative Education Review 45 (2001): 537-560.

"Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job" (New York Times, July 31, 2006).

Bill Gates on the "American education advantage."

THE NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT

October 2

Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 5-9.

October 7

Steven Greenhouse, "The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract." In The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf, 2008), 71-97.

Daniel H. Pink, "How Many Are There?" and "How Did it Happen?" In Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself (Warner Business Books, 2002), 27-55.

Fordism and Post-Fordism.

October 9

Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism, chap. 1.

October 14

Nicholas Lehman, "The Kids in the Conference Room." In D. Remnick (ed.), The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence (Random House, 2000), 139-149.

Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism, chap. 2.

October 16

Interview paper due.

October 20-24: Fall break

MERGING WORK AND LIFE

October 28

Lloyd, Neo-Bohemia.

October 30

Lloyd, Neo-Bohemia (cont.).

SPECIAL LECTURE: Thursday, October 30, 6:30 pm in Sanders Classroom 212

Richard Lloyd, Vanderbilt College: "On the Barstools of Giants: Place, Aura, and Cultural Production."

November 4

Sweet & Meiskins, Changing Contours of Work, chaps. 3, 6.

Weekly hours of child care in American families: 1965-2000.

Overlap of child care with other activities in American families: 1975-2000.

November 6

November 11

Second take-home exam due.

THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY

November 13

Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, chaps. 10-12.

SPECIAL LECTURE: Monday, November 17, 5:30 pm in Sanders Classroom 212

Kee Warner, "Privilege in Place: Traveling the Well-Carved Path."

November 18

James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II, "The Demand for Authenticity" and "Rendering Authenticity." In Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), 9-30, 45-80.

Bernard Cova, Robert V. Kozinets and Avi Shankar, "Tribes, Inc.: The New World of Tribalism." In B. Cova, R.V. Kozinets and A. Shankar (eds.), Consumer Tribes (Elsevier 2007), 3-26.

Isabelle Szmigin, Marilyn Carrigan and Caroline Bekin, "New Consumption Communities and the Re-Enabling of 21st Century Consumers." In B. Cova, R.V. Kozinets and A. Shankar (eds.), Consumer Tribes (Elsevier 2007), 296-311.

"The Anti-Restaurants." New York Times, August 27, 2008.

November 20

Moore, Unmarketable, chaps. 1-4.

"Assault on the Gentrifiers, and the Audience" (New York Times, November 14, 2008).

Jim DeRogatis, "The curse of alternative nostalgia: What the heck happened to the Class of '93?" (Chicago Sun-Times, November 13, 2008).

Consumer tribes exercise.

November 25

Moore, Unmarketable, chaps. 5-11.

The Legal Satyricon: Dischord & Minor Threat v. Nike.

November 27

No class: Thanksgiving holiday.

INDIVIDUALIZATION

December 2

Bauman, Work, Consumerism and the New Poor.

December 4

Bauman, Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (cont.).

December 9

Last day of class.

Mario Savio's 1964 speech at UC Berkeley.

December 16

Consumerism paper due.