COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF ECONOMY

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 examine economy as a basic dynamic of the emergence of modern societies with sociological perspective and to understand its central role to make social analysis

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand economy as one of the major dynamics of social change
2   To relate economy with other social fields 4. To understand the emergence of capitalism in Europe to make comparison to Turkish experience of capitalism
3   To understand the role of economy in the emergence of modern socities
4   To understand the emergence of capitalism in Europe to make comparison to Turkish experience of capitalism
5   To understand social and cultural reflections of capitalist crisis in the different parts of world in 2000s

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and field of study of Sociology of Economy
2 Theoretical Foundations I
3 Theoretical Foundations II
4 Discussions on the Change and Transformation of Production: Capitalism-Fordism-Post-Fordism
5 Neoliberalism
6 Employment
7 Social Class
8 Mid-term exam
9 Informal Sector
10 Inequality
11 Debate on Türkiye I
12 Debate on Türkiye II
13 Class: Employees and Unemployed
14 Women's Labor and Economy
15 General Evaulation
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Aylin Görgün Baral; Serap Suğur (Edt.), Ekonomi Sosyolojisi, Anadolu Üniversitesi Açık Öğretim Fakültesi Yayınları, Eskişehir, 2012.
Richard Senneth, Karakter Aşınması: Yeni Kapitalizmde Işin Kişilik Üzerindeki Etkileri, Çeviren, Barış Yıldırım, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2002.
Thomas Piketty, Yirmi Birinci Yüzyılda Kapital, Çeviren, Hande Koçak, Iş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, Istanbul, 2014.
Şevket Pamuk, Türkiye nin 200 Yıllık Iktisadi Tarihi, Türkiye Iş Bankası Yayınları, 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

Thursday 10:00-11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 4 1 4
Preparation for final exam 5 2 10
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.1
LO.2
LO.3
LO.41
LO.51

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