Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 220 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 220 Course Title: SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TURKEY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer NEVAL KARANFİL (nevalkaranfil@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
Encouraging participants to think on the ground of correlation between social structure and political developments.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Gain the ability to identify facts in their correlation with historical dynamics. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
Examination
LO-2 Can analyse the components of the social structure in Turkey. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
Examination
LO-3 Gain the ability to raise ciritcal questions about the social structure in Turkey. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
Examination
LO-4 Will increase their ability to discuss political, economic, and cultural issues PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-3 Analyze compenents of political, administrative and institutional systems, design institutional systems, and make operational the process of decision-making and coordination mechanisms which are effective for institutionalization;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Evolution and elements of Turkey's social structure from 19th century to present day.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Scope, subjects, sources, method and requirements of the course. Lecture
2 Social structure, institutions, class, status, social change Lecture
3 Ottoman Legacy Lecture
4 War of Independence and politics during one party era Lecture
5 Transition to Multi-party system Lecture
6 Coup de Etats of 1960 and 1980 Lecture
7 Systemic properties of politics after 1980 Lecture
8 mid-term exam
9 Urbanisation. Lecture
10 Urbanisation and migration. Lecture
11 Poverty. Lecture
12 The 'class' and the 'ethnic'. Lecture
13 Education and culture. Lecture
14 Marginalised groups. Lecture
15 The gender problem. Lecture
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Zencirkıran, Memet (der.) (2011), Dünden Bugüne Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Yapısı, Dora Basım Yayın, Bursa
2 Kongar, Emre (1997), İmparatorluktan Günümüze Türkiye'nin Toplumsal Yapısı: Cilt 1-2, Remzi Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul
3 Keyder, Çağlar (2007), Türkiye’de Devlet ve Sınıflar, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
4 Tonak, Ertuğrul Ahmet ve Schick, Irvin Cemil (der.) (2006), Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye, Belge Yayınları, İstanbul
5 Kaya, Ayhan (der.) (2009), Türkiye’de İç Göçler: Bütünleşme Mi Geri Dönüş Mü?, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul
6 Quataert, Donald ve Zürcher, Eric Jan (1998), Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet Türkiye'sine İşçiler 1839-1950, (çev.) Cahide Ekiz, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
7 Bora, Aksu (2008), Kadınların Sınıfı: Ücretli Ev Emeği ve Kadın Öznelliğinin İnşası, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
8 Buğra, Ayşe (2010), Sınıftan Sınıfa: Fabrika Dışında Çalışma Manzaraları, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
9 Erdoğan, Necmi (der.) (2007), Yoksulluk Halleri: Türkiye'de Kent Yoksulluğunun Toplumsal Görünümleri, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
10 Saraçoğlu, Cenk (2011), Şehir, Orta Sınıf ve Kürtler: İnkardan Tanıyarak Dışlamaya, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
Required Course instruments and materials
Specified books.

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 16 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 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       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 9 1 9
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 9 1 9
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 118