Sociology D169                                                                                                Professor Gershon Shafir

Fall 2007                                                                     

Will examine the alternative views on the construction of the modern citizen and the good society in the liberal outlook and within the human rights perspective and their alternatives in the communitarian, social-democratic, nationalist, feminist, and multiculturalist perspectives. We will use the format of a moot court or its equivalent (e.g. a congressional subcommittee, an equal rights commission, a board of education) to explore relevant issues in depth. Students will pick one court case from the list, work on it as a group during the quarter, and present it in class. Each group will have its own web board to prepare its case for the moot court.

Requirements: the grade will be based on the preparation and presentation of the moot court case (50%), a single question weekly assignment (10%), and the midterm exam (40%).

Gershon Shafir, editor, The Citizenship Debates, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

October 1-3-5-8: Classical Local and Global Citizenship

J.G.A. Pocock, "The Ideal of Citizenship Since Classical Times," Queen's Quarterly, Vol.99, No.1, Spring 1992, pp.35-55, in Shafir, pp.31-41.

Max Weber, "Citizenship in Ancient and Medieval Cities," in his General Economic History, Rutgers UP, in Shafir, pp.43-49.

John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness in the Liberal Polity," in Philosophy and Public

Affairs, No.14, in Shafir, pp.53-72.

Adrian Oldfield, Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World, London, Routledge, 1990 in Shafir, pp.75-89.

T.H. Marshall, "Citizenship and Social Class," in his Class, Citizenship, and Social Development, 1949 in Shafir, pp. 93-111.

Nancy Fraser & Linda Gordon, "Contract Versus Charity: Why Is There No Social Citizenship in the United States?," Socialist Review, 92/2 Vol.22, No.3, pp.45-67, in Shafir, pp. 113-127.

Rogers Brubaker, "Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation-State in France and Germany: A Comparative Historical Analysis," International Sociology, Vol.5, No.4, December 1990, in Shafir, pp.131-164.

Yasmin Soysal, "Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe," in her Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994 in Shafir, pp .189-217.

Will Kymlicka, "Multicultural Citizenship and Minority Rights" in his Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights: A Liberal Theory of Minority Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, in Shafir, pp.167-188.

November 14: Women's Rights

Kathleen B, Jones, "Citizenship in a Woman-Friendly Polity," Signs, Vol.15, No.4, 1990 in Shafir, pp. 221-247.

Iris M. Young, "Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship," Ethics, Vol.99, No.2, 1989, in Shafir, pp.263-290.

Michael Walzer, "The Idea of Civil Society," in Dissent, Spring 1991, in Shafir, pp. 291-308.

Gershon Shafir, "Citizenship and Human Rights in an Era of Globalization," in Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, N.Y., Routledge, 2004, pp. 11-25.

The following are web pages of prevous moot courts:

Civil Rights and Unlawful Enemy Combatants