Soc 356: Transformative Technologies
spring 2001: The Clock

Calendar:
 

1/16	introduction
1/18	transformative technologies	Barnett: intro. and chapter one
1/23	calendars	Duncan: "Luna, Temptress of Time"
1/25	technological determinism?	Barnett: chapter two
1/30	sundials and water clocks	Barnett: chapter three
2/1	autonomous technology?
2/6	monasteries	Barnett: chapter four
2/8	reductionism?	Barnett: chapter five
2/13	merchants and time discipline	Barnett: chapter six
2/15	watches and time discipline	Barnett: chapters seven and eight
2/20	finding the longitude paper draft due	Barnett: chapter ten
2/22	finding the longitude
2/27	rail roads	Barnett: chapter eleven
3/1	industrialization	Barnett: chapter twelve
3/6	industrialization	Barnett: chapter thirteen; Ingold: "Work, Time and Industry"
3/8	midterm exam
3/13	spring break!
3/15	spring break!
3/20	waiting	Gasparini: "On Waiting"
3/22	diffusion/imperialism: Japan	Nishimoto: "The 'Civilization' of Time..."
3/27	diffusion/imperialism: Australia	Donaldson: "The End of Time?"
3/29	the Internet revised paper due	Lee and Liebenau: "Time and the Internet..."
4/3	television
4/5	leisure	van der Poel: "Leisure and the Modularization..."
4/10	work
4/12	new technologies	Barnett: chapter fourteen
4/17	evolving meanings	Freake: "The Semiotics of Wristwatches"
4/19	feminist perspectives	Leccardi: "Rethinking Social Time"
4/24	feminist perspectives	Odih: "Gendered Time..."
4/26	resistance: slow food	peruse http://www.slowfood.com/cgi-bin/SlowFood.dll/ SlowFood_Com/scripts/Chisiamo/chisiamo.jsp?SlowFood=SF
5/1	resistance: info. economics	Paolucci: "The Changing Dynamics of Working Time"
5/3	review

final exam: Tuesday, May 8, 10:30 - 12:30