友人玄震（http://www.douban.com/people/2528742/）找到的Michael Mann的课程纲要，我觉得第一份纲要尤其有用，就转载了过来。

Sociology 228: Critical Issues in Macrosociology:

Michael Mann, Haines 234 (Tel: 5-1822). E-mail: Mmann@soc.ucla.edu


Syllabus: Soc 228 is a course primarily intended for macro-sociology students, though students with other interests and from other departments are also welcome. This year I cover major recent debates in macro-sociology, focusing on four main areas: explaining democracy versus authoritarianism, revolution, European exceptionalism, and political economy and welfare. There are substantial readings from the draft chapters of the forthcoming third volume of my Sources of Social Power (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Assessment : a term paper on one or more of the ten topics. One copy must be handed in to the Sociology office by Tuesday, Dec 7 at 4pm, and another sent by e-mail to me. Provided students discuss some of the issues of the course, they may also introduce material from an empirical case of their own choice.

Students must also write four 2 page resumes of some of the weekly literature assigned, covering at least 50 pages of the materials. These resumes are not graded, but to produce less than four of a pass standard would result in an overall grade reduction for the course. Post these on the class web-site at least 24 hours before the relevant class. Students may chose to merely give an accurate resume of the main arguments of the reading. If so, I will respond with the comment "OK", "Good" etc. If students also introduce critical commentary, I will give more feedback.

Students must also give one class presentation of a paper of 4-6 pages. This is not graded. It should be analytically-organized: the major issues, the alternative answers given, the empirical support for these, and your own conclusion. It should cover more than just the starred reading, though perhaps not everything on the reading-list for that week. I will give feedback on this presentation. This may be on the same topic as the term paper.

This is a provisional syllabus and reading-list. The readings will be on the class web-site.

1. Democracy and Authoritarianism (1): The Barrington Moore Thesis.

*Moore, Barrington Jr. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1966, pp esp 3-110, 413-452.
Skocpol, Theda "A critical view of Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy", Politics and Society, Vol 12, 1973.
Tilly, Charles Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1990. Blackwell, 1992, Chaps. 3 & 4.
Downing, Brian M., The Military Revolution and Political Change. Princeton UP, 1992, Chaps. 1,4,5,7, 10.
Ertman, Thomas. 1997. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Chap 1.

2. Democracy and Authoritarianism (2): the 20th Century

* *Stephens, John D. "Democratic transition and breakdown in Western Europe, 1870-1939: A test of the Moore thesis", AJS, Vol 94, 1989.
Luebbert, Gregory "Social foundations of political order in interwar Europe", World Politics, Vol 39, 1987.
Rueschemeyer, D., Stephens E. & Stephens J. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago University Press, 1992. Chs 1-4.
*Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, pp 3-101.
Renske Doorenspleet “Reassessing the Three Waves of Democratization” World Politics 52.3 (2000) 384-406 (available on web).
Barry Gills & Joel Rocamora “Low intensity democracy”, Third World Quarterly, Vol 13, 1992. J-Stor.

3. Economic Miracle or Eurocentrism? European and Chinese Economic Development Compared

*Joseph Bryant “The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 31.4 (2006) 403-444 (available on-line).
Pomerantz, Kenneth The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp 3-68.
Goldstone, Jack 2002 "Efflorescence and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the 'Rise of the West' and the Industrial Revolution", Journal of World History Vol 13: 323-389.
Mann, Michael “The Sources of Social Power revisited: a response to criticism”, in John Hall & Ralph Schroeder (eds.), The Anatomy of Power. Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Copy available on class web-site).
Gunder Frank, Andre Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1998. Chaps 1 & 7.

4. European Exceptionalism II: War and the State in Europe & Other Continents. Was Europe exceptional rather than paradigmatic in its (1) fiscal-military-statebuilding nexus and (2) “Westphalian” system of states?
*Mann, Michael, Europeans are from Mars (unpublished typescript).
* Centeno. Miguel Blood And Debt. War and the Nation-State in Latin America, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, Chaps 1 and 6, pp 1-32 & 261-280.
Herbst, Jeffrey States and Power in Africa. Princeton University Press, 2000 Chap 4, pp 97-136.
Cooper, Frederick Africa Since 1940. Cambridge University Press, 2002, Chap 7, pp 156-190.

Fearon, James & David Laitin “Ethnicity, insurgency and civil war”, American Political Science Review, Vol 97, 2003.
5 Revolution: (1) Explaining the Success of the Bolshevik Revolution and Failure Elsewhere.

* Jack Goldstone “Revolutions.” In The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, eds. Todd Landman and Neil Robinson. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009, pp. 319-347
Mann, Michael , The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge University Press 1993), Vol II, pp 660-666; 711-715., and Vol III Chap 6 : “Explaining Revolutions: Phase 1, Proletarian Revolutions, 1917-1923" .
Skocpol, Theda States & Social Revolutions, Cambridge University Press, 1979. , Chaps on Russian Revolution.

6. Revolution (2) Peasant Revolutions in Late 20th century: over the last century almost all revolutions and insurrections have been launched by peasants in the periphery of the world. Does this require modification of classic approaches to revolution?

*Goodwin, Jeff 2001 No Other Way Out, Cambridge Univ. Press, excerpts on class web-site.
Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol III, Chap 14 “The Chinese Revolution”, unpublished.
*Wickham-Crowley, Timothy 1997 “Structural Theories of Revolution” in John Foran (ed), Theorizing Revolutions. Routledge
Paige, Jeffrey Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World, Free Press, 1975 pp 1-123, 273-376
Somers, Margaret and Walter Goldfrank, "The Limits of Agronomic Determinism: A Critique of Paige's Agrarian Revolution."Comparative Studies in Society and History (July 1979) 21(3)443-458. J-Stor.
Chirot, Daniel Social Change in the Modern Era, ch 7, “Revolutions in the Periphery1910-1950"

7. Revolution (3) ? The Disintegration of the Soviet Union: revolution, counter-revolution or just collapse – and caused by what?

*Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol III, Chap 18 “ The Fall of Soviet Communism”, unpublished.
Lane, David The Rise and Fall of State Socialism: Industrial Society and the Socialist State. Polity, 1996., Chaps 7 & 8.
Ellman, Michael & Vladimir Kontorovich The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System. Routledge, 1992. Chap 1, pp 1-39.
Kotz, David & Fred Weir Revolution From Above. The Demise of the Soviet System. Routledge 1997, pp 34-155.
Beissinger, Mark Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Chap 8, pp 385-442.

8. Political Economy & Welfare: (1) The New Deal: Class v Elite/Institutional Theories . The debate here concerns whether the New Deal was essentially a response to class pressures, either from below or among fractions of the capitalist class, or was it mainly molded by political processes or institutions ?

*Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol III, Chap 8 “The New Deal”, unpublished.
*Manza, Jeff 2000 “Political sociological models of the U.S. New Deal”, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 26, pp 297-322 (a review of the debates). J-Stor.
Goldfield, Michael 1989 “Worker insurgency, radical organization, and New Deal labor legislation”, American Political Science Review, Vol 83, 1257-82. J-Stor.
1990. “Reply to Skocpol and Finegold”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 84: 1304– 15. (Emphasizes working class insurgency).
Domhoff G. William 1990 The Power Elite and the State. Aldine de Gruyter. Chs 3 & 4 (emphasizes conflicts among capitalist class).
Skocpol, Theda & Kenneth Finegold "State capacity and economic intervention in the early New Deal", Political Science Quarterly, Vol 97, 19. (Emphasize political institutions). J-Stor.
Amenta, Edwin & Parikh S. 1991 “Capitalists Did Not Want The Social Security Act: A Critique of the 'Capitalist Dominance' Thesis”. American Sociological Review, Vol. 56: 124-9 (ditto). J-Stor.

9. Political Economy and Welfare (2): Comparative Welfare States. Did the different forms of welfare state result from class conflict, class compromise, national citizenship, political elites, an ageing population, or what?

* Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1990. "The three worlds of welfare capitalism", Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1989. J-Stor (this is also Chapter 1 in his book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton UP., pp 9-34, 221-9.
*Esping-Andersen 1999 "Comparative welfare regimes re-examined” in his Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp 73-94.
Evans, Peter et al, Bringing the State Back In, op cit., Chapter by Weir & Skocpol.
Hicks, Alexander Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism, Cornell University Press, 1999, pp 111-186.
Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol III, Chap 9, “The Rise of Social Citizenship in Capitalist Democracies”, unpublished.

10. Political Economy and Welfare (3): The Rise and Decline of Neoliberalism
The causes of its rise and the extent of its decline today.

* Stiglitz, Joseph 2002 “Globalism’s Discontents” , The American Prospect, Vol 13, pp 1-14.
*Mann, Michael The Sources of Social Power, Vol III, Chap 17: “The Rise and Decline of Neoliberalism”.
Krippner, Greta 2005 “The financialization of the American economy”, Socio-Economic Review, Vol 3, 173-208.
Mudge, Stephanie 2008 “What is neo-liberalism?”, Socio-Economic Review, Vol 6, 703-731.
Fourcade-Gourinchas, M., and S. Babb. 2002. “The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Neoliberal Transitions in England, France, Mexico, and Chile” American Journal of Sociology, Vol 107: 533-579.
Vreeland, James 2003 The IMF and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 120-
Prasad, Monica 2006 The Politics of Free Markets. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press.Pp 1-97, 280-86.
Johnson, Simon 2009 “The Quiet Coup”, Atlantic Online, May.