What is Capitalism?

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Introduction
1	What is Capitalism? What is Anthropology?
2	Competing Ways of Understanding Expanding Class Inequality in the United States
3	An Ethnographic Problem: The Financial Crisis of 2008	Discussion with writing tutor: tips on paper-writing
Theories of Capitalism
4	Nineteenth Century Political Economy
5	Sociological Perspectives: Weber and Bourdieu
6	Capitalism After World War II
7	Theories of Capitalism: From Post-Structuralism to Identity Literature
8	Capitalism and Globalization
9	Contemporary Debates Over Capitalism: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
10	Capitalism Redux: History, “Progress,” and the Return of the Nineteenth Century?	First Writing Assignment Due
An Ethnographic Look: Capitalism And Everyday Life
11	Social Class: Thinking Outside the Box
12	Film: People Like Us: Social Class in America. Directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. PBS, 2001
13	Film (cont.): People Like Us: Social Class in America. Directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. The Center for New American Media, 2001.
14	Discussion of “People Like Us”
15	Discussion of Old Money and Blue-Chip Black
Capitalism and Its Others
16	Capitalism and Its Others: Soviet-Style State Socialism	Second Writing Assignment Due
17	Capitalism and Its Others: The Nordic Model
18	Capitalism And Its Others: The “Third World”
A Case Study: Inside the 2008 Financial Crisis
19	Inside the 2008 Financial Crisis	Final Writing Assignment Topics Due; Discussion with Writing Tutor Regarding Final Writing Assignment
20	Film: Frontline: Money, Power & Wall Street, Episode 1, April 24, 2012.
21	Film: Frontline: Money, Power & Wall Street, Episode 2, April 24, 2012.
22	Inside the 2008 Financial Crisis (cont.)	Draft of Final Writing Assignment Due
23	Inside the 2008 Financial Crisis (cont.)
24	Inside the 2008 Financial Crisis (cont.)	Draft of Final Writing Assignment Returned for Revisions
25	Final Project Oral Presentations
26	Final Project Oral Presentations (cont.)
27	Final Project Oral Presentations (cont.)	Revised Final Writing Assignment Due