Materials & Links for Sociology 929: Envisioning Real Utopias
1. 2003 Syllabus
2. Questions for
Interrogation of Real Utopia Proposals
Weekly Reading Interrogations & Discussion Agenda
Each week participants in the semninar prepare interrogations
of the readings which serve as the basis forf the seminar discussion.
session 2. 9/11/03 Basic
Income and Stakeholder grants.
Interrogations
. Agenda
.
session 3. 9/18/03
Asset Egalitarianism: Bowles & Gintis, Recasting Egalitarianism
. Interrogations
. Agenda
.
session 4. 9/25/03
Market Socialism. Interrogations
. Agenda
.
session 5. 10/2/03 Workers
Coops. Interrogations
. Agenda
.
session 6. 10/9/03
Parecon. Interrogations
. Agenda
.
session 7. 10/16/03 Associative
Democracy. Interrogations
. Agenda
session 8. 10/23/03 Deliberation Day
. Interrogations
. Agenda
session 9. 10/30/03 Empowered
Participatory Governance. Interrogations
. Agenda
session 10. 11/6/03 The Kibbutz
. Interrogations
. Agenda
session 11. 11/13/03 Communitarianism
. Interrogations
. Agenda
session 12. 11/20/03 Education.
Interrogations
. Agenda
Selected Readings
Introduction
Hayek, Fatal conceit [ pp. 6-10
] [ pp. 48-65
] [ pp. 66 - 88
]
Sociological Marxism
Erik Olin Wright and Michael Burawoy Sociological Marxism (unpublished
book manscript)
Outline of book
Chapter 1. Why Sociological
Marxism?
Chapter 2. Taking Seriously
the Social in Socialism
Eelectoral Democracy
Selections from Ackerman and Fishkin,
Deliberation Day
. (prepublication text)
Selections from Ackerman and Ayers, Voting with Dollars [
pp. 3-24
] [pp.25-44
] [pp.181-221
]
Associative Democracy
Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers, Associations and Demogracy
(Real Utopias Project, voil. 1, Verso, 1995)
ch. 1, Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, Secondary Associations and
Democratic Governance. [pp. 7-37
] [ pp. 38 - 73
] [ pp. 74 - 98
]
ch. 2. Paul Q. Hirst. Can Secondary Associations Enhance Democratic Governance
[pp. 101-113
]
ch. 3. Claus Offe. Some Skeptical Considerations on the Malleability
of Representative Institutions [pp. 114-132
]
ch. 4. Jane Mansbridge. A Deliberative Perspective on Neo-Corporatism
[pp.133-147
]
ch. 5. Andrew Szasz. Progress through Mischief: the social movement alternative
to secondary associations. [pp.128-156
]
ch. 6. Andrew Levine. Democratic Corporatism and/versus Socialism. [pp.
157-166
]
ch. 7. Philippe Schmitter. The Irony of Modern Democracy. [pp.
167-183
]
ch. 8. Wolfgang Streeck. Inclusion and Secession: questions on the boundaries
of Associative Democracy. [pp.184-192
]
ch. 9. Ira Katznelson. On Architectural Syncretism. [pp.
193-199
]
ch. 10. An Institutional Critique of Associative Democracy. [pp.
201-206
]
ch. 11. Iris Marion Young. Social Groups in Associative Democracy. [pp.
207-213
]
ch. 12. Heinz Klug. Extending Democracy in South Africa. [pp.
214-235
]
ch. 13. Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers. Solidarity, Democracy, Association.
[pp. 236-267
]
Basic Income
Selections from Erik Olin Wright (ed) Redesigning
Distribution
Van der Veen & van Parijs, Capitalist road
to communism
Wright, Why something like socialism is necessary
for the transition to something like communism
Van Parijs, Competing justification of basic income [
pp. 3 - 29
] [ pp. 215 - 235
]
Elster, Comment on van der Veen and Van Parijs
Purdy, Citizenship, Basic income and state
Workers Cooperatives
Hansman, Ownership of enterprise [ pp. 11
- 23
] [ pp. 24 - 34
] [ pp. 35-49
] [ pp. 66 - 88
] [pp. 89-119
] [pp.120-145
]
Market Socialism
John Roemer, Equal Shares (volume II, Real Utopias Project,
Verso),
chapter 1
. John Roemer "A Future for Socialism"
Commentaries
chapter 2
William Simon, Inequality and Alienation in the
socialist Capital Market
chapter 3
Nancy Folbre, Roemer's Market Socialism: a feminist
critique
chapter 4
Debra Satz, Status Inequalities and MOdels of Market
Socialism
chapter 5
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, My Utopia or
Yours?
chapter 6
Mieke Meurs, Market Socialism as a Culture of Cooperation
chapter 7
Erik Olin Wright, Political Power, Democracy and
Coupon Socialism
chapter 9
Fred Block, Finance and Market Socialism
chapter 11
Harry Brighouse, Transitional and Utopian Market Socialism
chapter
12
Richard J. Arneson, What Do Socialists Want?
chapter 13
Andrew Levine, Saving Socialism and./or Abandoning It
chapter 14
Julius Sensat, Socialism as an Attitude
chapter 15
Michael Burawoy, Why Coupon Socialism Never Stood a Chance
in Russia