| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
Can use programs and basic concepts of Sociology. |
PO-1 1. Can understand the basic concepts regarding the sociology programs.
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
Can develop the ability of identifying, solving and modeling Sociological problems of sociology and related fields |
PO-4 4. Can have the skills to define, model and solve the sociological problems in the field of Sociology and related fields.
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
Can review and evaluate the data by using advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field. |
PO-6 6. Can assess and evaluate the data making use of the advanced knowledge and skills that they have acquired in the field, to define and analyze the issues connected with current technological developments finding ways to offer solutions to those issues based on the researched and evidence.
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| The Origins of Sociological Thought, Social Philosophy: The philosophy of the Enlightenment Society, Classical Sociologists, Turkey and the problematics of sociology Basics |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Origins of Sociology
Aristotle
Augustine |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 2 |
History, Society and State According to Ibn Khaldun: The Science of Umran
Society in Western Thought: Hobbes and Rousseau |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 3 |
VICO: New Science
Vico's New Science: Towards Social Sciences
Vico's Cyclical Theory of History |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 4 |
MONTESQUIEU:
Montesquieu's Social Thought
Material Conditions Determining Society: Climate and Geography |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 5 |
MONTESQUIEU: Sociology of Politics
Separation of powers
From Political Theory to Sociology: Three Issues |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 6 |
Auguste Comte:
Law of Three States
Hierarchical Classification of Sciences
Social Statics – Social Dynamics |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 7 |
AUGUST COMTE:
From Science to Philosophy, From Philosophy to Religion.
The Issue of Universality in Comte's Thought
Determinism and Progress |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
KARL MARX: His Intellectual Biography
Marx's Evaluation of History and Society |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 10 |
Marx's Economic Theory: Value, Wage and Surplus-Value |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 11 |
Class Theory.
Alienation Theory |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 12 |
Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Civil Society, Organic Intellectual |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 13 |
Louis-Pierre Althusser: Ideological State Apparatuses |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 14 |
An Overview of Tocqueville's Thought: Equality - Freedom Balance
Tocqueville's Theory of Democracy |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 15 |
Democracy in America
Old Regime and Revolution |
Lecture, question and answer |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Kösemihal, Nurettin Şazi, Sosyoloji Tarihi, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul 1989. |
| 2 |
Swingewood, Alain; Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Kısa Tarihi, Çev. Osman Akınhay, Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, Ankara, 1998. |
| 3 |
Bottomore, Tom-Nisbet, Robert; Sosyolojik Çözümlemenin Tarihi, Çev. Mete Tunçay- Aydın Uğur, V Yayınları, Ankara 1990. |
| 4 |
Aron, Raymond, Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri, Çev. Korkmaz Alemdar, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Ankara 1986. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Source books, articles |
