Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue
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| Year/Semester of Study | 4 / Spring Semester | ||||
| Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
| Type of Course | Optional | ||||
| 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) | ENSAR ÇETİN, | ||||
| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
| Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
| Objectives of the Course | |||||
| The sociology of daily life is concentrated on the meaning of social action. The course presents the knowledge of this area from three basic perspectives with sample readings. It includes contemporary theoretical efforts. In addition, this course is designed as an experience of understanding, interpreting and aesthetizing a life. | |||||
| Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
| The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
| LO-1 | Understands the Visible Elements of Daily Life. It gives the ability to interpret everyday life from a different perspective. |
PO-1 1. Can understand the basic concepts regarding the sociology programs.
PO-2 2.Can transfer and adapt what they have acquired in the field of Sociology to other disciplines. PO-3 3. Can develop creative, resourceful in terms of conducting sociological analysis and equipped with the communication and social skills necessary to take part in team work. 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. |
Examination |
| LO-2 | The ability to bring sociological analysis to events in daily life is given. |
PO-10 10. Can have the professional and ethical responsibility in the process of the collection, evaluation and implementation of the data in the field of study and publishing the results. PO-11 11. Can observe the current national and international issues. PO-12 12. Can make their knowledge regarding human health and environmental awareness available for the benefit of the society. |
Examination |
| LO-3 | It provides a comparative explanation of the sociological aspects of events. |
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. |
Examination |
| LO-4 | Improves the ability to analyze scientific aspects of sociological events. It provides the ability to evaluate sociological events. |
PO-2 2.Can transfer and adapt what they have acquired in the field of Sociology to other disciplines. PO-3 3. Can develop creative, resourceful in terms of conducting sociological analysis and equipped with the communication and social skills necessary to take part in team work. PO-4 4. Can have the skills to define, model and solve the sociological problems in the field of Sociology and related fields. |
Examination |
| PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
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| Course Contents | ||
| Basic Concepts, Epistemological Elements in the Sociology of Daily Life; Theoretical Approaches: Habermas, Heller in Neo-Marxist Movement; Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Ardigo in a Phenomenological Approach; Goffman and Garfinkel from North-American Micro Sociology; New Approaches: Maffesoli; Practice, Body, Theory: Foucault and Bourdieu, de Certeau; Criticism of Daily Life: Neo-Freudian Studies, Marxism and Psychoanalysis; Visible Elements of Daily Life; Structures in the life-world; Popular Lifestyles and Strategies; Social Classes and Daily Life; Daily Life and Gender. | ||
| Weekly Course Content | ||
| Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 | With life being a concern | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 2 | To be a problem with life Basic theoretical approaches: neo-marxis team: Heller, Habermas, Lefebvre | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 3 | Phenomenological approach: Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, ArdigoLefebvre | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 4 | North-American Micro Sociology: Goffman and Garfinkel | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 5 | Epistemological elements of daily life sociology | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 6 | Unconscious, practical, power in daily life: Freud, Bourdieu, Foucault | |
| 7 | Critique of Daily Life: Neo-Freudian Studies, Marxism and Psychoanalysis | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 8 | mid-term exam | |
| 9 | Contemporary theoretical efforts in the sociology of everyday life: de Certeau, Maffesoli, Bovone, Smith | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 10 | Criticism of everyday life: the discovery of Marxism by Freud. | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 11 | Alienation and opposition in daily life: Lefebvre | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 12 | Individual in reality, self and power relations | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 13 | Life styles and anthropology of consumption | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 14 | Minimalism, ethics and late-capitalism; ways of resisting everyday life: love and aesthetics | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 15 | The art of living as a practice of knowing a limit | Lecture Method Discussion Method |
| 16 | final exam | |
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
| 1 | Heller, A. (1984) Everyday Life. London:RoutledgeandKegan Paul | |
| 2 | Heller, A. (1985) ThePower of Shame:ARationalPerspective. London:Routledgeand | |
| 3 | Habermas, J. (2001) İletişimsel Eylem Kuramı. (çev) Mustafa Tüzel. | |
| 4 | Bourdieu, P. (1995) Pratik Nedenler:Eylem Kuramı Üzerine. (çev) Hülya Tufan. Istanbul:Kesit. | |
| Required Course instruments and materials | ||
| 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 | 15 | 1 | 60 |
| Student Work Load | |||
| Type of Work | Weekly Hours | Number of Weeks | Work Load |
| Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| Outside Class | |||
| a) Reading | 1 | 13 | 13 |
| b) Search in internet/Library | 0 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Own study for final exam | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| Total work load; | 85 | ||