| Code: SOS 305 |
Course Title: CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES |
Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 |
ECTS: 5 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
3 / Fall Semester |
| Level of Course |
1st Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Compulsory |
| Department |
SOCIOLOGY |
| 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) |
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| Language of Instruction |
Turkish |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| A student successfully completing this course can understand and express the main setup of the approaches and analysis of each thinkers being examined in itself and in comparison to other thinkers'. Can understand and express the difference between philosophical and scientific approaches.He can understand how the process of sociological theory construction came face to face with historical, social, temporal structures and processes. he can understand, exemplify and express the effect of historical changes on theories and methods. Can exemplify, and refers the formation of society and state power, solidarity and sovereignty, function, and social organization, economy, ideology and politics, between the mutual improves the level of awareness about the dialectical forms of relations is being handled.
Teaching Method: Lecture and discussion |
| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
Can define the basic concepts of sociology programs. |
PO-1 1. Can understand the basic concepts regarding the sociology programs.
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
Can adapt and transfer the acquired knowledge with other disciplines in the field of Sociology |
PO-2 2.Can transfer and adapt what they have acquired in the field of Sociology to other disciplines.
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
Can defining the sociological problems of sociology and related fields, may have the ability to model and solve. |
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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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
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| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Introduction: Course subject, scope and purpose of the |
expression |
| 2 |
The central problem of the classical theories of sociology |
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| 3 |
Sociological theory and the Formation of A.Comte |
expression |
| 4 |
H. Spencer Resources and Context of Thought |
expression |
| 5 |
H. Sepencer's Sociology |
expression |
| 6 |
E. Durkheim's Sociology Resources and Context |
expression |
| 7 |
E. Durkheim's Sociology and Theoretical Heritage |
expression |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
K. Marx's Sociology Resources and Context |
expression |
| 10 |
K. Sociology of Marx |
expression |
| 11 |
K. Criticisms for the opinions of Marx and Sociology (Critics of the Frankfurt School) |
expression |
| 12 |
G. Simmel Thought Resources and Context |
expression |
| 13 |
Sociology of George Simmel |
expression |
| 14 |
G. Simmel theoretical Heritage |
expression |
| 15 |
A General Overview |
expression |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Sezgin Kızılçelik, Sosyoloji Teorileri I, II., |
| 2 |
George Ritzer; Klasik Sosyoloji Teorileri |
| 3 |
Raymond ARON; Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Aristotle. (1993) Politics, (trans. M. Tunçay) Istanbul: Harvard University Press.
Arslan, Ahmet. (1997) Science and Intellectual World of Ibn Khaldun, Ankara: Valley Press.
Aron, Raymond. (1989) Stages of Sociological Thought, (trans. Allen Korkmaz)
Ankara: Information Publishing House.
Barnes, Harry Elmer. (1948). An Introduction to the History of Sociology, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
De Tocqueville, Alexis de. (1962) American Democracy (trans. Taner Timur) in Istanbul:
Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr. (1997) Ideal State, (annotated trans. A. Armstrong), Ankara: Valley Press.
Ibn Khaldun (1990) Muqaddima I, (trans. K. Ugan Zakir): Istanbul: Routledge.
Swingewood, Alan. (1991) A Short History of Sociological Thought, (2nd ed.) Macmillan. Lecture notes |
