SOC 120 University of California Los Angeles Globalization Weekly Reflection Paper

Format: 12pt font, Times New Roman, 2 pages Single Spaced

*Minimum length requirement for reflections moving forward: 1,200 words (not including work-cited list)

NOT DOUBLE SPACED

Hello, I need help with my weekly reflection for Sociology class. I will provide you with (1) Powerpoint, (2) the readings and 1 article, (3) example of 10/10 reflection and (4) links to the movies we watched in class. The reflection is not an essay with an intro, body, and conclusion, but rather just shows the understanding of this weeks material and develop an analytical perspective on it. It is highly encouraged to use quotes from both the readings and Powerpoint. Please be

Down below I will attach the syllabus instructions for the weekly and the “Orientating Question” that was emailed to us after the lecture to help guide our reflection. THANK YOU.

TA (Teacher grading assistant) NOTE: “try to bring in more specifics from the lecture, readings and documentary, and cite them. So for example, when you describe Indonesia’s economy, say something to the effect of “As shown in lecture #2″. That makes it easier to see how you’re incorporating the ideas from different sources and gives credit where it’s due.”

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MUST ANSWER THIS ORIENTING QUESTION

Email from Professor

Dear students,

Here is your orienting questions for the reflection due Friday. I remind you, however, that this is merely a prompt for those who feel they need one. You don’t necessarily need to follow this specific prompt. Your principal guide to drafting your reflection are the guidelines on the syllabus.

You watched a documentary in class and will watch on your own “The War You Don’t See.” Can you draw on the readings to further analyze the content of these documentaries. And vice-versa, in what ways, if at all, do the documentaries illustrate the content of the readings? Can you weave into your discussion the many things that were discussed in the lecture?

Your professor

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Syllabus Instructions

Read these guidelines carefully. Each week, on 8 occasions, you will prepare a reflection essay of approximately 2-3 pages (single-spaced). *Minimum length requirement for reflections moving forward: 1,200 words (not including work-cited list). You are of course free to write more than the minimum required. These are not academic papers in which you need an introduction, hypothesis, conclusion, etc. They are reflections and you may use a more informal style, even stream of consciousness prose. Please note: there are two criteria we will use in grading these assignments:

Does your reflection demonstrate that you have participated in and paid attention to the lecture/powerpoint, done the readings, and engaged with the documentary?

Have you developed analytical discussion, including bringing in the terms, concepts, and theories that we discuss in the lecture and are in the readings? Have you shown how the three (lectures, readings, documentaries) are related to one another, and have you identified and discussed the underlying theme(s) that run through all three?

In addition, I will generally send out an email shortly after class with several orienting questions that you should respond to in the context of your reflection. We will be looking very carefully to see how you respond to these orienting questions, especially with regard to the readings.

Note that these reflections should not be a summary of the lecture, readings, and documentary, and nor should they be a question and answer format. Avoid mere description. The purpose is three-fold: 1) that you demonstrate you have attended the lectures done the readings, watched the documentaries, and given thought to them; 2) to identify what you did not understand and what you think is important to discuss in class, in relation to the course, and; 3) this is crucial, that you are able to synthesize the three (lecture, readings, documentary) to develop a meaningful analytical discussion on the topic of the week.

As you write these reflections, you should use the sociological concepts and terms you have acquired in the course and through the readings. We will be looking for this as we grade.

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Oct. 28: Political Globalization, Global Governance and the State. Cultural Globalization, Global Communications, Global Social Movements, Transnational Civil Society

Readings:

Keniche Ohmae, “The End of the Nation State” (in reading packet);

“Global Governance” (in reading packet, encyclopedia entry)

Jan Nederveen-Pieterse, “Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms” (in reading packet)

Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (in reading packet).

“News Channels, Global” (in reading packet, encyclopedia entry)

Jackie Smith and Marina Karides, et. al., “Globalization and the Emergence of the World Social Forums” (in reading packet)

Film: Shadows of Liberty (opening section)

Film: The War You Don’t See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVvmUUTIik

***Film: Mickey Mouse/Disney (*MUST MENTION*)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuSYllYzno

*ARTICLE:

https://truthout.org/articles/to-defeat-fascism-we…

Reading Reflection #3 Due 6:00 PM October 30