Brief Introduction
Learn how everyday people in China, Bangladesh, Mexico, and the U.S. transform the world around them and advocate for social change.Description
What possibilities exist for a fairer world? Can one person truly make a difference? In this social sciences course, we sample the possibilities and limits of social change in an interconnected, inequitable global landscape.
This course features in-depth examinations of the rise of garment work for Bangladeshi women, a labor strike in a Mexican suit factory, anti-sweatshop activism in China, and a chat with the president of one of the oldest textile manufacturers in the U.S.
Global Sociology is recommended but not required. Let’s start to understand how social change really works.
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Knowledge
- How globalization transforms local communities
- How the conditions of labor exploitation vary across countries and times
- How activism and protest fit into the study of global sociology
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