[Peace] events Friday, March 11 / Linda Weber's birthday / Emotional Responses to Terrorism at the Y, noon / Walk out and rally 2pm / Democracy's Gift 4pm in 319 Gregory Hall

[C. G. Estabrook]

[If you're going to hear the awful Lynn at noon, you might see the following as 
an antidote. Happy birthday, Linda. --CGE]

Transnational Studies Colloquium
(Sociology, Geography, and Urban and Regional Planning)
Friday, 11 March, 2:00 p.m.
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor

MICHAEL BURAWOY
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
President, International Sociological Association
“What Should We Mean by Global Sociology?”


Classical sociology has conventionally been trapped within the framework of the 
nation-state. Today we have to think globally but without denying the importance 
of the national container. As a first step this means comparing different 
countries, but the more important step is to try to see the world as a unit unto 
itself, populated by organizations, networks and movements that transcend 
national boundaries. In this context what shall we mean by global sociology? We 
have to first ask a prior question: what is sociology? This paper is based on 
the premise that sociology takes the standpoint of civil society, just as 
economists take the standpoint of markets and political scientists take the 
standpoint of the state. Civil society first emerged at the end of the 19th 
century in Europe in response to the destructive expansion of national markets, 
especially labor markets. Today, the capitalist economy assumes a global 
character, but a global character with a momentum that is outside the control of 
nation states. The destructiveness of this contemporary wave marketization 
transcends national boundaries as we see in such phenomena as financial crises, 
global warming and human trafficking. In contesting this destructiveness civil 
society must also transcend national boundaries as it does, potentially, in 
social movements, NGOs, and religion. Such a putative global civil society calls 
for a sociology that is based not just in a local or national civil society, but 
assumes global dimensions. This global sociology is very different from the 
hegemonic project of national sociologies that falsely present themselves as 
universal, just as it is different from the retreat into particularism. Rather a 
global sociology requires us to stitch together national sociologies from below. 
It requires a community of sociologists that transcends national boundaries, but 
created through a dialogue among national sociologies.

On 3/10/11 10:43 AM, Karen Medina wrote:
> March 11 -- Linda Weber's birthday
>
> Friday, March 11
> ''Fear and Outrage: Emotional Responses to Terrorism''
> John Lynn, Distinguished Professor of Military History, Northwestern University
> Where: University of Illinois, YMCA Friday Forum
> 1001 South Wright Street Champaign, IL
> noon - 1pm
> [All forums are radio broadcast at 6:00 p.m. on WEFT 90.1 the Monday
> following the lecture]
> [This is eighth in the YMCA's Friday Forum series, 'Americans at
> War--A Look at the Impacts of U.S. Military Power in the 21st
> Century']
>
> Walk out and Rally on Friday at 2 pm
> Tomorrow, March 11 at 1:30pm
> Location: UIUC classrooms and the main quad
>
> Democracy's Gift
> Graduate Studnet Conference Keynote - Title: "Democracy's Gift:
> Virtue, Civility, and Collective Action Problems"
> Speaker Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto
> Date Mar 11, 2011
> Time 4:00 pm
> 319 Gegrory Hall (810 South Wright Street)
> Sponsor Department of Philosophy
> Event type Lecture
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