These theories have broad implications for analyzing the current trajectory of the 
world and are particularly relevant today given the demise of the socialist 
paradigm and the peaking (and hence expected decline) of the freedom (markets and 
democracy) paradigm.  What visions supersede these, or survive these?  What is the 
role of theory development?  What are the possibilities for the world's 
dispossessed?  In this course we look at global racial inequality and ask how has 
the research question been defined (growth, development, democracy, etc.)?  We look
at the sociological models available to measure goal attainment.  Then we use 
feminist and Afrocentric theory to evaluate arguments suggested by world-systems 
approaches and North-South polemics.

1.  Evaluate the Human Goal--Set the Research Question
	A. Peace and Life over Death
	B. Adequate Food for All
	C. Education and Creativity
	D. Freedom and Mobility

2.  Define the Sociological Model(s) of Evaluation
	A. Have measures of goal attainment
	B. Employ method of Seeking Primary Contradiction
		- measure it
		- evaluate forces of change and stasis
		- identify resolution possibilities

3.  Apply the Sociological Approach defined above to evaluating Lines of Inquiry
suggested by       North-South Polemics and the World-System theory
	A. Feminist
	B. Cheikh Anta Diop
	C. Rudolph Bahro and the Greens
	D. Marimba Ani
	E. Andre Gunder Frank

4.  Consider Marxist and Development Theory Critiques

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