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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS SOS 4077 SOCIAL CHANGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GAZANFER KAYA

Offered to

Sociology Sociology (Evening)

Course Objective

To examanine dyanamics of social change from different perspectives.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand the social change that caused the emergence of sociology 2   to understand the dynamics of social change from different perspectives 3   to understand the role of structure and actor in social change 4   to understand the central position of revolutions in the radical change and transformation of societies 5   to understand the change and transformation of our globalized social world

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 The central role of social change in the emergence of sociology 2 Social Change: Ideology and Technology Relations (1) 3 Internal Dynamics of Social Change (1) 4 External dynamics of socialchange (1) 5 Structural approaches to social change (1) 6 Dialectical - Conflictual appraoaches to social change (1) 7 Actor centered model of social change: Alaine Touraine (6) 8 Social Change and Revolutions (4) 9 Mid-Term 10 Revolutions as Social Change (4, 1, 2) 11 Wallerstein s Social Change Theory (3) 12 Discussions of Globalization from the social change perspective (3)

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Emre Kongar, 1983, Toplumsal Değişim ve Türkiye Gerçeği, Ankara: Remzi 2. Emre Kongar, 2985, Türkiye nin Toplumsal Yapısı I, II, Ankara: Remzi 3. Immanuel Wallerstein, 1999, Biildiiğimiz Dünyanın Sonu, Istanbul: Metis 4. Theda Skocpol, 2004, Devletler ve Toplumsal Devrimler, Ankara: Imge 5. Feroz Ahmad, 1999, Modern Türkiye nin Doğuşu, Istanbul: Iletişim 6. Alaine Touraine, 1998, Birlikte Yaşayabilecek miyiz , Istanbul: YKY 7. Simone de Beauvoir, 1993, Ikinci Cins I, II, III, Istanbul: Payel

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

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 14 3 42 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70 Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5 Preparation for final exam 1 10 10 Midterm 1 1 1 Final 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

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 4 LO.2 4 LO.3 4 4 LO.4 LO.5 4