COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEVRIM ERTÜRK

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management
Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Civil Aviation and Cabin Services
Civil Aviation Transportation Management
Food Technology

Course Objective

To understand culture with the sociological perspective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the areas of study and methods of the culture of sociology
2   To understand basic concepts and frames of the culture of sociology
3   To learn contemporary approaches to the social dimension of culture
4   To understand the methods of analysis of cultural forms and processes
5   To understand different theories of and approaches to culture by making comparisons

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and areas of the culture of sociology
2 Sociological perspectives to culture
3 Cultural turn in the social sciences
4 The symbolic construction of community
5 Ethnic grups and their constructions
6 Nation and construcion of nation
7 Political Culture
8 Mid-term exam
9 On the political culture Gramsci and the concept of hegemony
10 State and culture
11 Collective identities and their constructions
12 Discussions on tradition, modernity and culture
13 Discussions on popular culture, mass culture and consumer culture
14 Globalization and local culture elements
15 General Evaluation
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ali Ergur; Emre Gökalp (Edt.), Kültür Sosyolojisi, Anadolu Üniversitesi Açık Öğretim Fakültesi Yayınları, Eskişehir, 2011.
David Swartz, Kültür ve Iktidar Pierre Bourdieu nun Sosyolojisi, Çeviren, Elçin Gen, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2013.
Fredric Jameson, Kültürel Dönemeç, Çeviren Kemal Inal, Dost Kitabevi, Ankara, 2005.
Anton C. Zijderveld, Kültür Sosyolojisi Kültür Sosyolojisi ve Metodolojisine Giriş, Çeviren, Kadir Canatan, Açılım Kitap, Istanbul, 2014.

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 * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm+Final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is compulsory to attend % 70 to the classes and fulfill the course requirements

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

devrim.erturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 14:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 4 2 8
Preparation for final exam 4 2 8
Other (watching artwork belong to visual arts) 2 2 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

CONTACT INFORMATION
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