SOCI 446- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 68 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Involves mechanisms of reproduction (dealing with power among other things) that enforce the selected and existing institutions, thus making it difficult to change the form of the created institution (ex. a federal state). Involves path-dependent processes (ex. of the qwerty keyboard): colonialism, seen by many historical sociologists as the beginning of a critical juncture period, with long-term locked-in consequences. In order to understand many aspects of the world today, one must look back to the impacts of colonialism. We need to a(cid:272)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373) as o(cid:374)e of the (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s that a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) i(cid:374)gapo(cid:396)e(cid:859)s contemporary economic dynamism. It is common for analyses of colonialism to get into normative statements on the impacts of colonialism. In this class however, we will not focus on such normative elements; we will rather focus on our understanding and assessment of evidence of the long-term effects of colonialism. Initial findings: goal = present as clearly as possible what your final paper will look like.
