| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
Including current and best practices in the field of sociology has advanced knowledge, information improves the level of expertise, deepen, and can analyzed using statistical methods and interpretations. |
PO-1 1-Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Sociology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods.
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
Information obtained in the doctoral program, R & D units and features may have the ability to work or occupational field. |
PO-4 4-Have the qualification and capability to gain admission to doctoral programs, R&D units or occupations related to the field with the knowledge they have gathered in the field.
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
Important in the development of sociology in the people, events and facts, in terms of area can evaluates the effects of practice. |
PO-8 8-Evaluate how the important personalities, events and phenomena that have made essential contributions to the development of Sociology that might have impact on their field of practice.
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| Examining contemporary theories in sociology. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
What is sociological theory? Its subjects. The importance of concepts such as structure, subject, action, person, social will. |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 2 |
Pioneers of sociology and contemporary theories and their opinions |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 3 |
Functionalism. Opinions of Durkheim, Parsons and Merton will be discussed. |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 4 |
Structural theories and defenders |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 5 |
Conflict theory, criticism of society. Opinions and views of Frankfurt School, Wright Mills, Pierre Bourdieu will be examined. |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 6 |
Conflict theory, criticism of society. Opinions of Max Weber, Lewis Coser and Ranfdoll Collins will be discussed. |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 7 |
Evolution and Modernity: Macro Sociological Point of View |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Social theories and psychoanalysis in transition process |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 10 |
Symbolic Interaction and views about it |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 11 |
Main features of 20th century social theory and introduction to thought cults: positivism and effects of hermeneutic, Objectivism and Rationalism problems |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 12 |
Repression and Social Transformation |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 13 |
Phenomenology / Ethnomethodology |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 14 |
Interpretive sociology and Contributors |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 15 |
Modernism and postmodernism |
Lecture, questions and answers, discussion |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Ruth A. Wallere - Allison Wolf; (Çev. Leyla Elburuz-M.Rami Ayas), Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları; Punto Yayıncılık, İzmir 2004 |
| 2 |
Margeret M. Polama; Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları; Gündoğan Yayınları, Ankara 1993 |
| 3 |
Contermporary Sociological Theory; Craig Calhoun; Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, and İndermohan Virk, Blackwell Publishing, USA 2005 |
| 4 |
Classical Sociological Theory; Criag Calhoun, Josph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Kathryn Schmidt, and İndermohan Virk, Blackwell Publishing, USA 2006 |
| 5 |
A. Sorokin ; Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları, Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara 1994 |
| 6 |
Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri, Raymond Aron, Bilgi Yayınevi, 1989 basımı. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Source books, articles |
