Course Detail
Course Detail
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY and ECONOMY | - | Fall Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 5 |
| Course Program | Perşembe 12:00-12:45 Perşembe 12:45-13:30 Perşembe 13:30-14:15 Cumartesi 12:00-12:45 Cumartesi 12:45-13:30 Cumartesi 13:30-14:15 |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Required |
| Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. Mehmet İPŞİRLİ |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Prof.Dr. Nurullah ARDIÇ |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | |
| Course Content | This course contains; Introduction: What is Sociology? ,Historical context: How did Sociology Emerge? ,What is (Not) Society? Freedom, Power, and Networks of Interaction,Social Structures & Organizations,Social Norms, Values, and the Self ,Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Historical Sociology ,Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Society and Politics ,Sociological Perspectives: Karl Marx – Historical Sociology,Sociological Perspectives: Marx – Capitalism & Alienation,Sociological Perspectives: Emile Durkheim – Suicide,Sociological Perspectives: Durkheim – Religion ,Sociological Perspectives: Max Weber – Life and Sociological Approach ,Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Religion and Capitalism ,Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Power: Stratification & Domination . |
| Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| This course aims to provide information on fundamental approaches in the social sciences and to help students develop a sociological imagination that will enable them to make sense of cultural realities within their own contexts. It will provide familiarity with the core views of classical sociologists and acquaint students with key debates in the social sciences. |
| Teaching Methods: | |
| Assessment Methods: |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: What is Sociology? | ● Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Ch. 1. Recommended: ● Arthur A. Berger, Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory, AltaMira Press, 2003, pp. 19-74. (Turkish trans.: Durkheim Öldü! Sherlock Holmes Sosyolojik Teoriye Giriyor, Heretik Yay., 2014.) ● *Stephanie Wilson, “10 Popular Concepts in Sociology: Understanding the Foundations of Human Society” appliedworldwide.com (*Can’t be taken for presentation/summary). |
| 2 | Historical context: How did Sociology Emerge? | ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 12. Recommended: ● S. Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, “Introduction: Eurocentrism, Androcentrism and Sociological Theory” Idem (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Kenneth Bock “Theories of progress, development, evolution” in Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet, eds. A History of Sociological Analysis. New York: Basic Books, 1978. |
| 3 | What is (Not) Society? Freedom, Power, and Networks of Interaction | ● Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power, Cambridge UP. Vol I: Ch. 1. Recommended: ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 1. ● Vineeta Sinha “Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● S. Farid Alatas, “José Rizal (1861–1896)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Vineeta Sinha “Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● S. Farid Alatas, “Said Nursi (1877–1960)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. |
| 4 | Social Structures & Organizations | ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Ch. 4. ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 4. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 251-68. ● George Ritzer on “Rationalization & McDonaldization” ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 7. |
| 5 | Social Norms, Values, and the Self | ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Chs. 5, 6. Recommended: ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Chs. 2, 3, 6, 8. ● Goffman, The Presentation of Self, Introduction and Ch. 6 |
| 6 | Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Historical Sociology | ● S. Farid Alatas, Ibn Khaldun, Oxford UP, 2013, Ch. 5. Recommended: ● Ibn Khaldun, Excerpts from The Muqaddimah, Chs. 1, 2, 4, 5. ● Nurullah Ardıç, “Beyond ‘Science as a Vocation’: Civilisational Epistemology in Ibn Khaldun and Weber” Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 36, no. 3 (class website). ● Zaid Ahmad, The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun, 2003, Chs. 2, 7 |
| 7 | Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Society and Politics | ● S. Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldun, Routledge, 2014, Chs. 2, 9. Recommended: ● Ibn Khaldun, Excerpts from The Muqaddimah, Ch. 3. ● S. Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldun, Routledge, 2014, Chs. 6, 7, 8. |
| 8 | Sociological Perspectives: Karl Marx – Historical Sociology | “The history of the world is the history of class struggle” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 24-45. Recommended: ● From Tucker: Marx-Engels Reader: Manifesto of the Communist Party, pp. 469-500, The German Ideology, Pt.1, pp. 146-75. *Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, pp. 3-6, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, (the beginning), pp. 53-4, Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx (by Engels), pp. 681-82, Engels' letter to Bloch, 1890, pp. 760-65. (*Can’t be taken for presentation/summary). ● Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (in Tucker, pp. 579-85.) ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 1-24. |
| 9 | Sociological Perspectives: Marx – Capitalism & Alienation | “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 46-64. Recommended: ● From Tucker: 1844 Manuscripts, pp. 70-81 & 95-96, Excerpts from The Holy Family, pp. 133-35. ● Melvin Seeman. “On The Meaning of Alienation” American Sociological Review, vol. 24, no. 6, 1959, pp. 783–791 (Class website). ● Göran Therborn, “Twentieth-Century Marxism and the Dialectics of Modernity”, in From Marxism to Post-Marxism, Göran Therborn, Verso, 2008, pp. 66-110. ● Newspaper articles on Turkey & socialism (on class website). |
| 10 | Sociological Perspectives: Emile Durkheim – Suicide | “We must treat social facts as (if) things” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 82-94. Recommended: ● Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Suicide, excerpts, in Thompson, pp. 43-83. ● Durkheim: The Division of Labor in Society excerpts in Thompson pp. 19-42. ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 65-66, 70-76, 224-32. ● Steven Lukes: “Alienation and anomie” |
| 11 | Sociological Perspectives: Durkheim – Religion | “Religion is just society stretched ideally to the stars” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 105-118. Recommended: ● Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life excerpts in Thompson, pp. 85-98. ● Gökalp, Ziya. (1915) “Dinin İctimai Vazifeleri” İslam Mecmuası, I vol. I, nos. 34, 36, İstanbul. (English trans: “Social Functions of Religion” in Gökalp, Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization: Selected Essays of Ziya Gökalp, (trans. and ed. by Niyazi Berkes), London: George Allen and Unwin.) ● Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America” |
| 12 | Sociological Perspectives: Max Weber – Life and Sociological Approach | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 145-154. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 7-13, 28-32 ● S. Farid Alatas, “Max Weber (1864–1920)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Mahoney, James. 2004. “Comparative-Historical Methodology,” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 30, pp. 81-101. |
| 13 | Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Religion and Capitalism | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 119-32, 169-84. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 138-205. ● Randall Collins, “Weber’s last theory of capitalism” (class website). ● Philip S. Gorski, 1993. “The Protestant Ethic revisited: disciplinary revolution and state formation in Holland and Prussia” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 2. |
| 14 | Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Power: Stratification & Domination | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 154-68. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 43-64, 251-68. ● Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power, Cambridge University Press, vol. II: Ch. 3. ● Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1990. Blackwell, Ch. 3. |
| Resources |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
| ECTS / Workload Table | ||||||
| Activities | Number of | Duration(Hour) | Total Workload(Hour) | |||
| Course Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Guided Problem Solving | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Resolution of Homework Problems and Submission as a Report | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Term Project | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Presentation of Project / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Midterm Exam | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| General Exam | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Performance Task, Maintenance Plan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total Workload(Hour) | 0 | |||||
| Dersin AKTS Kredisi = Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)/30*=(0/30) | 0 | |||||
| ECTS of the course: 30 hours of work is counted as 1 ECTS credit. | ||||||
Detail Informations of the Course
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY and ECONOMY | - | Fall Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 5 |
| Course Program | Perşembe 12:00-12:45 Perşembe 12:45-13:30 Perşembe 13:30-14:15 Cumartesi 12:00-12:45 Cumartesi 12:45-13:30 Cumartesi 13:30-14:15 |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Required |
| Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. Mehmet İPŞİRLİ |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Prof.Dr. Nurullah ARDIÇ |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | |
| Course Content | This course contains; Introduction: What is Sociology? ,Historical context: How did Sociology Emerge? ,What is (Not) Society? Freedom, Power, and Networks of Interaction,Social Structures & Organizations,Social Norms, Values, and the Self ,Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Historical Sociology ,Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Society and Politics ,Sociological Perspectives: Karl Marx – Historical Sociology,Sociological Perspectives: Marx – Capitalism & Alienation,Sociological Perspectives: Emile Durkheim – Suicide,Sociological Perspectives: Durkheim – Religion ,Sociological Perspectives: Max Weber – Life and Sociological Approach ,Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Religion and Capitalism ,Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Power: Stratification & Domination . |
| Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| This course aims to provide information on fundamental approaches in the social sciences and to help students develop a sociological imagination that will enable them to make sense of cultural realities within their own contexts. It will provide familiarity with the core views of classical sociologists and acquaint students with key debates in the social sciences. |
| Teaching Methods: | |
| Assessment Methods: |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: What is Sociology? | ● Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Ch. 1. Recommended: ● Arthur A. Berger, Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory, AltaMira Press, 2003, pp. 19-74. (Turkish trans.: Durkheim Öldü! Sherlock Holmes Sosyolojik Teoriye Giriyor, Heretik Yay., 2014.) ● *Stephanie Wilson, “10 Popular Concepts in Sociology: Understanding the Foundations of Human Society” appliedworldwide.com (*Can’t be taken for presentation/summary). |
| 2 | Historical context: How did Sociology Emerge? | ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 12. Recommended: ● S. Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, “Introduction: Eurocentrism, Androcentrism and Sociological Theory” Idem (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Kenneth Bock “Theories of progress, development, evolution” in Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet, eds. A History of Sociological Analysis. New York: Basic Books, 1978. |
| 3 | What is (Not) Society? Freedom, Power, and Networks of Interaction | ● Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power, Cambridge UP. Vol I: Ch. 1. Recommended: ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 1. ● Vineeta Sinha “Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● S. Farid Alatas, “José Rizal (1861–1896)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Vineeta Sinha “Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● S. Farid Alatas, “Said Nursi (1877–1960)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. |
| 4 | Social Structures & Organizations | ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Ch. 4. ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 4. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 251-68. ● George Ritzer on “Rationalization & McDonaldization” ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Ch. 7. |
| 5 | Social Norms, Values, and the Self | ● Berger, Invitation to Sociology, Chs. 5, 6. Recommended: ● Bauman, Thinking Sociologically, Chs. 2, 3, 6, 8. ● Goffman, The Presentation of Self, Introduction and Ch. 6 |
| 6 | Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Historical Sociology | ● S. Farid Alatas, Ibn Khaldun, Oxford UP, 2013, Ch. 5. Recommended: ● Ibn Khaldun, Excerpts from The Muqaddimah, Chs. 1, 2, 4, 5. ● Nurullah Ardıç, “Beyond ‘Science as a Vocation’: Civilisational Epistemology in Ibn Khaldun and Weber” Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 36, no. 3 (class website). ● Zaid Ahmad, The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun, 2003, Chs. 2, 7 |
| 7 | Sociological Perspectives: Ibn Khaldun – Society and Politics | ● S. Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldun, Routledge, 2014, Chs. 2, 9. Recommended: ● Ibn Khaldun, Excerpts from The Muqaddimah, Ch. 3. ● S. Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldun, Routledge, 2014, Chs. 6, 7, 8. |
| 8 | Sociological Perspectives: Karl Marx – Historical Sociology | “The history of the world is the history of class struggle” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 24-45. Recommended: ● From Tucker: Marx-Engels Reader: Manifesto of the Communist Party, pp. 469-500, The German Ideology, Pt.1, pp. 146-75. *Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, pp. 3-6, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, (the beginning), pp. 53-4, Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx (by Engels), pp. 681-82, Engels' letter to Bloch, 1890, pp. 760-65. (*Can’t be taken for presentation/summary). ● Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (in Tucker, pp. 579-85.) ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 1-24. |
| 9 | Sociological Perspectives: Marx – Capitalism & Alienation | “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 46-64. Recommended: ● From Tucker: 1844 Manuscripts, pp. 70-81 & 95-96, Excerpts from The Holy Family, pp. 133-35. ● Melvin Seeman. “On The Meaning of Alienation” American Sociological Review, vol. 24, no. 6, 1959, pp. 783–791 (Class website). ● Göran Therborn, “Twentieth-Century Marxism and the Dialectics of Modernity”, in From Marxism to Post-Marxism, Göran Therborn, Verso, 2008, pp. 66-110. ● Newspaper articles on Turkey & socialism (on class website). |
| 10 | Sociological Perspectives: Emile Durkheim – Suicide | “We must treat social facts as (if) things” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 82-94. Recommended: ● Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Suicide, excerpts, in Thompson, pp. 43-83. ● Durkheim: The Division of Labor in Society excerpts in Thompson pp. 19-42. ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 65-66, 70-76, 224-32. ● Steven Lukes: “Alienation and anomie” |
| 11 | Sociological Perspectives: Durkheim – Religion | “Religion is just society stretched ideally to the stars” ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 105-118. Recommended: ● Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life excerpts in Thompson, pp. 85-98. ● Gökalp, Ziya. (1915) “Dinin İctimai Vazifeleri” İslam Mecmuası, I vol. I, nos. 34, 36, İstanbul. (English trans: “Social Functions of Religion” in Gökalp, Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization: Selected Essays of Ziya Gökalp, (trans. and ed. by Niyazi Berkes), London: George Allen and Unwin.) ● Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America” |
| 12 | Sociological Perspectives: Max Weber – Life and Sociological Approach | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 145-154. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 7-13, 28-32 ● S. Farid Alatas, “Max Weber (1864–1920)” in Farid Alatas & Vineeta Sinha, (eds.) Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. ● Mahoney, James. 2004. “Comparative-Historical Methodology,” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 30, pp. 81-101. |
| 13 | Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Religion and Capitalism | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 119-32, 169-84. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 138-205. ● Randall Collins, “Weber’s last theory of capitalism” (class website). ● Philip S. Gorski, 1993. “The Protestant Ethic revisited: disciplinary revolution and state formation in Holland and Prussia” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 2. |
| 14 | Sociological Perspectives: Weber – Power: Stratification & Domination | ● Giddens, Capitalism & Modern Social Theory, pp. 154-68. Recommended: ● Weber: Selections, in Runciman, pp. 43-64, 251-68. ● Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power, Cambridge University Press, vol. II: Ch. 3. ● Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1990. Blackwell, Ch. 3. |
| Resources |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |