DOCUMENT by: Bob Hassenger Subject: What We're Doing
Module Overview:
In this module, we complete Barber, and then you will have yet another opportunity to pull together your thinking, in Assignment Three. The emphasis in the second part of the book is on Jihad, which becomes the figure, with McWorld as the ground. Remember, it is Barber's thesis that neither can be understood without the other: they constitute a dialectical tension within modern society. We first examine the essentials of Jihad in Part Two, especially Chapter 14. Then in Part Three, we get into the versus of the book's title, whether democracy can survive this tension, and, if so, how.
Module Learning Objectives:
To understand how, for Barber, Jihad and McWorld cannot exist without the other, and why both are antithetical to real democracy, in the author's view.
Readings:
Parts Two and Three of Barber.
Due Date: December 14, 2003
Assignments:
Due Date: Assignment Three due the week of December 14, 2003
Discussions:
Start Date: November 24, 2003
End Date: December 14, 2003
If you have any questions about the assignments or activities for this module, please click on the ASK A QUESTION link below. Now go to the next document to begin this module.
