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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / SOS 532 - SOCIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Code: SOS 532 Course Title: SOCIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 5
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department SOCIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ENSAR ÇETİN (ensarcetin@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) ENSAR ÇETİN,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The sociology of daily life is concentrated on the meaning of social action. The course presents the knowledge of this area from three basic perspectives with sample readings. It includes contemporary theoretical efforts. In addition, this course is designed as an experience of understanding, interpreting and aesthetizing a life.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Understand the Visible Elements of Daily Life. It gives the ability to interpret everyday life from a different perspective. 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.
Examination
LO-2 The ability to bring sociological analysis to events in daily life is given. PO-2 2-Plan experiments and carry out original researches in the field by making use of the theoretical and practical knowledge at the expert level that they have obtained in their field.
Examination
LO-3 It provides a comparative explanation of the sociological aspects of events. PO-3 3-Make use of the knowledge they have in order to find a solution to problems by analyzing, comparing and questioning them and can carry out original research in the related field on their own.
LO-4 Improves the ability to analyze scientific aspects of sociological events. It provides the ability to evaluate sociological events. 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.
PO-9 9-Transfer in a systematical way the latest developments in Sociology and their field of study reinforcing with qualitative and quantitative data to the groups either concerned with the field or not by verbal, visual and written means.
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Basic Concepts, Epistemological Elements in the Sociology of Daily Life; Theoretical Approaches: Habermas, Heller in Neo-Marxist Movement; Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Ardigo in a Phenomenological Approach; Goffman and Garfinkel from North-American Micro Sociology; New Approaches: Maffesoli; Practice, Body, Theory: Foucault and Bourdieu, de Certeau; Criticism of Daily Life: Neo-Freudian Studies, Marxism and Psychoanalysis; Visible Elements of Daily Life; Structures in the life-world; Popular Lifestyles and Strategies; Social Classes and Daily Life; Daily Life and Gende
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 With life being a concern
2 Basic theoretical approaches: neo-marxis team: Heller, Habermas, Lefebvre
3 Phenomenological Approach: Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Ardigo
4 North-American Micro Sociology: Goffman and Garfinkel
5 Epistemological elements of daily life sociology
6 Unconscious, practical, power in daily life: Freud, Bourdieu, Foucault
7 Critique of Daily Life: Neo-Freudian Studies, Marxism and Psychoanalysis
8 mid-term exam
9 Contemporary theoretical efforts in the sociology of everyday life: de Certeau, Maffesoli, Bovone, Smith
10 Criticism of everyday life: the discovery of Marxism by Freud.
11 Alienation and opposition in daily life: Lefebvre
12 Individual in reality, self and power relations
13 Life styles and anthropology of consumption
14 Minimalism, ethics and late-capitalism; ways of resisting everyday life: love and aesthetics
15 The art of living as a practice of knowing a limit
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 15 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 5 13 65
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 7 21
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 7 21
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 151