Information Of Programmes

FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / SOS 333 - SOCIOLOGY

Code: SOS 333

Course Title: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TURKEY I

Theoretical+Practice: 3+0

ECTS: 4

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

HULUSİ YILMAZ (h.yilmaz@nevsehir.edu.tr)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Objectives of the Course

To give the basic concepts related to the concept of social structure and assess Turkey's social structure with these concepts.

Learning Outcomes		PO	MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1	Understanding the basic concepts of social structure	PO-1 1. Can understand the basic concepts regarding the sociology programs.	Examination Performance Project
LO-2	To follow the process of social change in Turkey	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.
LO-3	To gain insight into the social structure of Turkey	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: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents

Weekly Course Content
Week	Subject	Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1	Social structure concepts; social institutions, groups and social change	Expression
2	TÜİK Institution page content, Accessing statistical data on the subject to be researched.	Expression
3	Politics in the last period of the Ottoman Empire. I. and II. Constitutionalism. Politics-Army relationship	Expression
4	Republican Era Turkey and the Single Party Regime	Expression
5	One Party Regime: Party-State integration	Expression
6	1950 General Elections and the Democrat Party's Coming to Power	Expression
7	1960 Military Coup and Interim Regime Period and Transition to Civilian Politics	Expression
8	mid-term exam
9	▲ Politics in Turkey until the March 12 Memorandum: Change, Transformation and Actors	Expression
10	1971 Memorandum and the Second Interim Regime period Coalition Governments and the Era of Ideological Conflict	Expression
11	1980 Military Coup and the Third Interim Regime Period	Expression
12	Turkish education system as a source of problem and solution	Expression
13	Turkish education system as a source of problem and solution	Expression
14	Urbanization, Spatial splitting, poverty and Turkey	Expression
15	Urbanization, Spatial splitting, poverty and Turkey	Expression
16	final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1	Mehmet Zencirkıran, Türkiye'nin Toplumsal Yapısı
Required Course instruments and materials

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	2	14	28
b) Search in internet/Library	1	14	14
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	2	7	14
mid-term exam	1	1	1
Own study for final exam	2	14	28
final exam	1	1	1
			0
			0
Total work load;			128