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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / KPİ516 - KAMU POLİTİKASI VE İŞLETMECİLİĞİ (YL) (TEZLİ)

Code: KPİ516 Course Title: SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TURKEY AND CURRENT SOCIAL ISSUES Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department KAMU POLİTİKASI VE İŞLETMECİLİĞİ (YL) (TEZLİ)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer GÖRKEM BİRİNCİ (gorkem@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The main aim of this course is to make student able to understand and analyze the Turkish Social Structure.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 It defines the social structure as a fact with its essential concepts and methods. PO-8 Gain the consciousness of adopting ethical values as basic values in every stage of life and especially in professional life,
PO-9 Have the consciousness of lifelong learning.
Examination
LO-2 It describes foundations of social structure. PO-8 Gain the consciousness of adopting ethical values as basic values in every stage of life and especially in professional life,
PO-9 Have the consciousness of lifelong learning.
Examination
LO-3 It adapts related theories to Ottoman/Turkish social structure comparatively. PO-8 Gain the consciousness of adopting ethical values as basic values in every stage of life and especially in professional life,
PO-9 Have the consciousness of lifelong learning.
Examination
LO-4 It analyzes the social structure of Turkey in a historical way. PO-8 Gain the consciousness of adopting ethical values as basic values in every stage of life and especially in professional life,
PO-9 Have the consciousness of lifelong learning.
Examination
Oral Examination
LO-5 It deciphers the changing processes of Turkey in an understanding of continuity and unity. PO-8 Gain the consciousness of adopting ethical values as basic values in every stage of life and especially in professional life,
PO-9 Have the consciousness of lifelong learning.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Society, Social Structure and Social System. Turkish Society and its Characteristics: Social Groups and Ethnicity; Social Institutions in Turkey; Education, Justice, Health, Family and Religion; Population, Migration and Urbanization. Turkeys Social Structure and the Future
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 The concept of Social Structure lecture
2 Qualities of the social structure lecture
3 The theories of establishing of Ottoman Empire lecture
4 Ottoman Stratification and Land System lecture
5 Reasons for the decline in the Ottoman empire lecture
6 Statist elits and traditional liberals lecture
7 Turkish Politics: Center and Periphery relations lecture
8 mid-term exam
9 Structural changes in Turkey; the effects of external elements lecture
10 Family structure in Turkey; urbanizations and migrations in Turkey lecture
11 Özal government: Globalization and Neo-liberalism lecture
12 Views of the change in the social structure lecture
13 Economic development of Turkey lecture
14 Changes in the political Structure of Turkey:Democratization lecture
15 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Emre Kongar, 21. Yüzyılda Türkiye: 2000’li Yıllarda Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Yapısı, Remzi Kitabevi, 2000, İstanbul
2 Taner Timur, Osmanlı Toplumsal Düzeni, İmge Yayınevi, 2001, İstanbul.
3 Çağlar Keyder, Türkiye’de Devlet ve Sınıflar, İletişim Yayınları, 2001, İstanbul
4 Birsen Gökçe, Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Yapısı ve Toplumsal Kurumlar, Savaş Yayınları, 1996, İstanbul
Required Course instruments and materials
Course materials are determined by lecturer

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 14 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 4 14 56
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 14 56
       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 10 1 10
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 15 1 15
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 181