SO 355

Weekly Study Guide - November 24

For this week you need to know the following concepts:

For a definition and example, click on a concept and a link will open. The best way to learn this information is to use 3"x5" index cards, writing the concept on one side of the card and the definition and example on the other side. 

The following questions will guide your reading for this week and will serve as a basis for class discussion. Please prepare an answer to the question that corresponds with your assigned number in your small group. You may also use one or more of these questions as a starting point for your sixth essay.
1. How does the interview with Bhumika Muchhala illustrate student participation in a movement for global change? How is the anti-sweatshop structured and in what ways do students participate?
2. What do Radhika Gajjala and Annapurna Mamidipudi mean by “cyberfeminism”? How is it something more than women just using the Internet to write a paper for a class?
3. What are the different ways that Radhika Gajjala and Annapurna Mamidipudi use the Internet as a tool of empowerment?
4. What are the reasons that Brecher, Costello, and Smith give to explain why most people do not try to change power relations? What sometimes leads people to change their mind in this regard and work for change?
5. What do Brecher, Costello, and Smith mean by “the Lilliput Strategy”? Why do they believe that it is effective in countering economic globalization?

For a printable version of this week's discussion questions, click here.