# Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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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