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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS SOS 4021 SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology (Evening) Sociology

Course Objective

This course is a general introduction to social contex of knowledge and will discuss knowledge society, ideology, knowledge and science.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explaine social bases of knowledge and its sociological meaning 2   To show construction of modern society by knowledge 3   Defining of different of konowledge understanding 4   To discuss information society, tecnology and changing 5   To show the priority of knowledge in social relationship

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Sociological imagination of konowledge 2 Defining knowledge and society 3 Western knowledge and historical improvment of knowledge 4 Pozitivism 5 Hermenutic and Paradigm understanding of Kuhn 6 Postmodern knowledge 7 Weber and Mannhaim 8 Traditional model of knowldege 9 Mid term 10 Modern knowledge and globalization 11 Knowledge, ideolgy and power I: Marx, Mardin, Althuserl 12 Knowledge, ideolgy and power II:Foucault

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FIN FINAL EXAM 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60 4 RST RESIT 5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 3 36 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 8 96 Midterm 1 1 1 Final 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 LO.1 4 3 4 LO.2 3 4 4 4 LO.3 3 3 3 4 3 LO.4 3 4 3 LO.5 4