Core course for the Power, History, Social Change Area in Sociology. Introduction to the study of large-scale processes of economic, political and cultural change from a comparative and historical perspective. The course begins with an introduction to basic concepts in the study of social change including power, knowledge and the state; nation and nationalism; class and class consciousness; and democracy, civil society and the public sphere. It then turns to a consideration of processes of macro-change at the societal and global level, including development, dependency and globalization, from both political-economy and post-colonial perspectives. It concludes with a consideration of revolution and social movements as processes of change, including analysis of communism and post-communism and of the rise of social movements in response to globalization.