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02/10/2021
PART I: Definitions (30/50 marks) You will be asked to answer any three definitions from a list of five (worth 10/50 marks each). In your answer you must:
Define the term in relation to interdisciplinary social science (2 points)
Explain the relevance of the term (4 points)
Give two illustrative examples or applications of the term (2 points each = 4 points). Your illustrative
examples may be drawn from whatever sources you choose, e.g., course readings, including newspaper and magazine articles, lectures, films, popular culture, etc.
Five terms will be drawn from this list:
objectivity
alienation
Peter’s map
Jamaica’s Free Zones
McWork sector
Eurocentrism
means of production
surplus value
revolution vs. reform
enforced casualization of work
monogeny and polygeny
cultural capital
precarious work
gradualism
Global North/South
PART 2: Short essay question (20/50 marks)Instructions: Answer one of the following two essay questions (worth 20 points). Specific point breakdown is noted in each. The essay question choices will be drawn from these readings, as well as from lectures and films:
Judith Butler, “Endangerer/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoiaâ€Â
Peter Hamilton (1992). “The Enlightenment & the Birth of Social Scienceâ€Â
Marshall Berman (1988). “Marx, Modernism and Modernizationâ€Â
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848). “Manifest of the Communist Party,†and “Bourgeois and Proletarians,â€Â
in The Communist Manifesto
William Appleman Williams, “Empire as a Way of Lifeâ€Â
Felix Greene, “How It Began†88-97
Jerry Kloby, “The Legacy of Colonialismâ€Â
Colonialism in Africa, 1914 (map)
Wainaina, How to Write About Africa
Stuart Hall (1992). “The West and the Rest: Discourse and Powerâ€Â
Michael Parenti, “The WTO and Globalizationâ€Â
Michael Parenti, “Mass Media: For the Many, By the Fewâ€Â
Samir Amin, “Eurocentrismâ€Â
Maria Mies, “The Myth of Catching up Developmentâ€Â
Chilla Bulbeck, “Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worldsâ€Â
Chandra Mohanty, “One-Third/Two-Thirds Worldsâ€Â
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “Human traffic: exposing the brutal organ tradeâ€Â
Amrita Pande, “‘At Least I Am Not Sleeping with Anyone’…â€Â
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, “Domesticaâ€Â
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, “Women and Labor Migrationâ€Â
Leslie Salzinger, “A Maid by Any Other Name…â€Â
Rigoberta Menchú, “A Maid in the Capitalâ€Â
Naomi Klein, Threats and Temps
Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida
Hermer Joe and Janet Mosher, “Introduction,†Disorderly People
D. Chunn and S. Gavigan, “From Welfare Fraud to Welfare as Fraud…â€Â
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Examples of essay questions (FROM ANOTHER COURSE – the format of questions on our test may or may not be similar to these):1. Choose ONE of the following articles:i. Sally Slocum, “Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropologyâ€Â
ii. Adrienne L. Zihlman, “Women as the Shapers of Human Adaptationâ€ÂPart a) (5 points): What kinds of assumptions about “sexual selection†are made by the “Man the Hunter†thesis?Part b) (10 points): Provide a detailed analysis of how your chosen author critiques the “man the hunter†thesis, making specific reference to relevant empirical data and examples used, as well as identifying the central claims, arguments and critiques.2. Choose ONE of the following articles:
i. Dorothy Roberts, “Killing the Black Bodyâ€Âii. Ann DuCille, “Toy Theory: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Differenceâ€ÂPart a) (10 points): Provide a detailed analysis of how the author critiques “otherness,†making specific reference to relevant empirical data and examples used, as well as identifying the central claims, arguments and critiques. Part b) (5 points): Finally, explain how your chosen article relates to the general themes of the course.
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