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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 355 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 355 Course Title: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer FATMA GÖKÇEN ÇETİN (fgokcencetin@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) LEYLA KAHRAMAN, FATMA GÖKÇEN ÇETİN,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The purpose of this course is to give basic information about political sociology and to specify main perspectives within the discipline.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can build the connection between political events and social structures. 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-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
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;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-2 Will be able to describe some concepts related to the relationship between society and politics. 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-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;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-3 Will be able to analyze the social movements. 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-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-4 Can use abstract concepts with their concrete contents. 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-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
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;
PO-6 Gain ability to apply research methods and techniques in the social disciplines;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Major approaches and debates on the relationship between power and society.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Scope, subjects, sources, method and requirements of the course. Lecture.
2 What is the object and subject of Lecture.
3 Method and conceptual framework. Lecture.
4 Micro-power. Lecture.
5 Macro-power: the state. Lecture.
6 Culture and political behavior. Lecture.
7 System theories: Easton ve Parsons. Lecture.
8 mid-term exam
9 Critical Theory: Frankfurt School and Poststructuralism. Lecture.
10 Modernity and Posmodernity debates 1. Lecture.
11 Modernity and Posmodernity debates 2. Lecture.
12 Class, nationhood and citizenship. Lecture.
13 Ethnicity and multiculturalism. Lecture.
14 Social gender. Lecture.
15 General overview and Discussion. Lecture.
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Vergin, Nur (2008), Siyasetin Sosyolojisi, Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul
2 DUVERGER, Maurice (2002), Siyaset Sosyolojisi, İstanbul: Varlık Yayınları.
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 2 5 10
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 1 2
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 112