| Code: SOS 227 |
Course Title: THEORIES OF SOCIOLOGY-I |
Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 |
ECTS: 5 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
2 / 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) |
ENSAR ÇETİN, |
| 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. |
| Course Contents |
| Before the emergence of sociology as a science in the Classical Sociological Theories I course, the necessity of the society, the historical origins of sociological thought and the historical background of the place they occupied in the philosophical thought in ancient and middle ages were discussed. their philosophical studies and views on society. Secondly, the theories of Thomas Hobbes, Montesquieu, John Locke, Giambattista Vico, Jean Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, one of the pioneers of sociological thought in the 17th and 18th centuries, on the relations between society, social organization, equality and state will be discussed. Finally, the emergence, systematization of sociology as a science and the theories of Saint Simon, Augusto Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies who are representatives of classical sociology theories will be examined. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
ntroduction: Course subject, scope and purpose of the |
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| 2 |
The central problem of the classical theories of sociology |
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| 3 |
Sociological theory and the Formation of A.Comte |
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| 4 |
H. Spencer Resources and Context of Thought |
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| 5 |
H. Sepencer's Sociology |
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| 6 |
E. Durkheim's Sociology Resources and Context |
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| 7 |
E. Durkheim's Sociology and Theoretical Heritage |
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| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
K. Marx's Sociology Resources and Context |
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| 10 |
K. Sociology of Marx |
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| 11 |
K. Criticisms for the opinions of Marx and Sociology (Critics of the Frankfurt School) |
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| 12 |
G. Simmel Thought Resources and Context |
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| 13 |
Sociology of George Simmel |
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| 14 |
G. Simmel theoretical Heritage |
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| 15 |
A General Overview |
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| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Sezgin Kızılçelik, Sosyoloji Teorileri I, II., |
| 2 |
Sezgin Kızılçelik, Sosyoloji Teorileri I, II., sil George Ritzer; Klasik Sosyoloji Teorileri sil Raymond ARON; Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
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