COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 5014 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYŞEN UYSAL

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

To present a critical and analitical perspective about political socialisation and mass movements.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To form a conceptual framework about social movements.
2   To have information about emerging periods on social movements and determinings about this periods.
3   To have information about the actors of social movements and the methods.
4   To present some country cases which can be samples about social movements.
5   As a output of the works have done, to give a critical and analytical perspective related with lessons subjects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Explanations about the content of lesson. Method on social movement researches.
2 Conceptual framework
3 Classical period at social movement theories: Crowds and Relative Deprivation.
4 1970 s and post-1970 s in social movement theories. Resource Mobilisation Theory and Political Process Approach, New Social Movement Approach.
5 New movements and interpretations in social movement theories..
6 The actors of social movements.
7 Term Exams
8 Action Repertoires of Social Movements
9 Circles of social movements and the diffusion of social movements.
10 Within the framework of emerging periods of social movements and their diffusions, to analyse Tunusia, Egypt and other North African experiences.
11 Homework presentations
12 Homework presentations
13 Evaluation and Discussion: The relation between democracy and social movements.
14 Final

Recomended or Required Reading


TILLY, Charles, Toplumsal Hareketler 1768 2004, Babil Yayınları, 2004.
ÇETINKAYA, Doğan, Toplumsal Hareketler. Tarih, Teori ve Deneyim, Iletişim Yayınları, 2008.
ERGUT, Ferdan & Ayşen UYSAL, Tarihsel Sosyoloji. Stratejiler, Paradigmalar, Sorunsallar, Tarih Vakfı Yayınları & Dipnot Yayınları, 2007 (s. 175 370).
AMINZADE, Ronald R. & GOLDSTONE, Jack A. & McADAM, Doug et alii., Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
ARAT, Yeşim, «1980 ler Türkiyesi nde Kadın Hareketi», Toplum ve Bilim, 53, Bahar 1991, s. 7-19.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical frame will be formed by the instructor of lesson.The student is responsable for analysing a scientific article about lesson s subject and doing/presenting a homework which s subject is selected by student.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 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

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Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aysen.uysal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 15:30-17.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 7 3 21
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.144
LO.25
LO.345
LO.454
LO.555

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