The following is for students studying Cultural and Moral Economy.
Please find attached files concerning my notes to lectures largely drawn from course textbooks, course reader and journal articles listed in 'Course Outline' (Week 1).
If you are making references to any lecture materials, please email me to ensure proper citation. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and is avoidable.
If there are any problems, please contact me:
email: sanghera@online.nsk.su ; balihar_sanghera@yahoo.co.uk
Cheers, Balihar Sanghera
Links to my other courses
Market Society: Meanings, Emdedding and Structures
Old and New Institutional Economics
Economics of the Firm
Sociology of Consumption
Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research
Qualitative Research Methods
State and Society
Link to the Bishkek International Sociology Conference, 17-21 June, American University - Central Asia, sponsored by Civic Education Project Central Asia & Mongolia and American University - Central Asia
Links to my guest lectures and conference papers
Lectures at the University of Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
'Neutrality of Markets and Ethnicity - special references to embedding, abstractions and petty capital', CEP / Canadian Studies Minority Discourses Conference, Ustron, Poland
'After the cultural, a return to the moral economy', CEP Critical Sociology Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
'Sociology, imperialism and educational capital: the need to become a social scientist', CEP Sociology Round Table in Kaunas, Lithuania
Links to Civic Education Project (CEP) websites (for details of student conferences and other educational opportunities)
CEP Russia (important information on student conferences)
CEP (interesting information on educational and employment opportunities)
A link to social science websites
Social Science Websites - sites for social theory, online papers, journals, universities, research bodies and resources sites
Week 1: Course Outline
Introduction
Week 2: Globalisation
Seminar: Anya Petchourina - Theories of Value
Globalisation article 1 on post-consumer radicals societies
Globalisation article 2 on cultural globalisation
Globalisation article 3 on global sport
Week 3: Production of Culture
Seminar: Anastasia Kiyanova - Cultural Industries
Production article 1 on Adorno
Production article 2 on American-style consumer
Production article 3 on cultural policies in post-Soviet Russia
Week 4: Fashion
Seminar: Alena Trubkina - Capitalism's Cultural Turn
Fashion article 1 on Russian fashion
Fashion article 2 on Russian fashion
Fashion article 3 on Russian fashion
Week 5: Advertising
Seminar: Luba Dolgova - Economics of creativity
Advertising article 1 on Russian advertising
Advertising article 2 on 'shock' tactics in advertising
Advertising article 3 on Russian advertising
Week 6: Corporate Culture
Notes on Industrial Organisation
Seminar: Julia Kotarskaya - Changing the People
Corporate Culture article 1 on Anglo-Saxon and Japanese models of Capitalism
Corporate Culture article 2 on the US Corporate Values
Corporate Culture article 3 on the UK working life
Week 7: Identity at Work
Notes on Fordism and Flexibility
Identity at Work article 1 on flexibility at work
Identity at Work article 2 on the changing UK labour market
Identity at Work article 3 on some myths of the UK labour market
Week 8: Essays
Test
Week 9: A Preliminary Critique of Cultural Economy
Regulation
Moral Obligations: State and the civil society
Regulation article 1 on the Russian 'Naked Truth' News
Regulation article 2 on Russian talk shows
Regulation article 3 on Russian funding of the arts
Regulation article 4 on the recent history of the UK cultural policy
Week 10: Morality
Colonisation by the market: a question of market boundaries
Morality article 1 on regulating the internet
Morality article 2 on women entrepreneurs in the pornographic industry
Morality article 3 on the US pornographic industry
Morality article 4 on homosexuality in the UK
Week 11: Please see the lecture notes for Week 9 'Moral Obligations: State and the civil society'
Also see the lecture notes for Week 10 'Colonisation by the market: a question of market boundaries'
Andrew Sayer's 'Developing the Critical Standpoints of Radical Political Economy'
Moral Economy article 1 on minority ethnic communities and forced marriages
Moral Economy article 2 on ethnicity and policing in St Petersburg
Moral Economy article 3 on ethnicity and citizenship
Week 12: The different approaches to culture and economy - a critique of 'cultural economy' and towards 'moral economy'
Week 13: Examination
