****Note: If you need to turn in any work this semester, no matter how late, please email me so we can set up a timeline for submission.

 

 

Homework for Wednesday: Review Steger and Jin, then answer these questions:

 

1–What is the definition of these four Social Forms of globalization:

a–Embodied Globalization:

b–Disembodied Globalization:

c–Object-Extended Globalization:

d–Organization-Extended Globalization:

 

2–What four distinct qualities does each social form of globalization possess?

a:

b:

c:

d:

 

3–What is the parable of the elephant and why is it important?

 

4–What are Steger’s short and very short definitions of globalization?

 

Questions related to “A Good Fall”:

1–Why is Ganchin in NYC?

2–Does this story exhibit any modernist or gothic characteristics?

3–Does this story contain forms or qualities of globalization? What are they?

4–What types of ethics are at work? Does Ganchin exhibit a different type of ethics from Zong? Cindy?

 

Best,

Prof. Scanlan