POPULAR CULTURE

POLI353

Course Code: POLI353
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Cihan Dizdaroğlu

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

have an overal perspective on the conceptualizations of cultural studies.
gain the ability to analyze cultural consumption and mass culture.
have a perspective on evaluating sociological concepts such as class and status from a cultural perspective.
gain the capacity to compare elements of popular culture.
achieve the ability to read political history in relation with cultural history.
have the ability to comprehend the relation between psychoanalytic analysis, and politics and culture.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

No recommended optional programme components.

Course Description

This course is designed to analyze popular culture and its role both in individuals everyday life and in history. Following a brief discussion regarding the main concepts (i.e. consumption, culture, identity, mass production, consumer society), the course focuses on the contemporary discussions around the main theoretical understandings of popular culture. The course aims to help students to understand political history and its connection with popular culture.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Meeting and Introduction
2^nd Week	Culture, Popular Culture, Mass Culture, Folk Culture
3^rd Week	Relation between Production-Consumption-Identity and Culture
4^th Week	From Culture to Mass Culture
5^th Week	Mass Production, Consumer Society, Consumerist Society
6^th Week	Martin Heidegger and Modernity- Technology, Atom Age and 'Age of World Picture'
7^th Week	Midterm Exam
8^th Week	Frankfurt School and Mass/Pop Culture
9^th Week	Hannah Arendt and Human Condition
10^th Week	Simulacrum from Platon to Baudrillard
11^th Week	Culture, Popular Culture, Power and Fascism (1929-1945)
12^th Week	The Americanization of the World (1945-1972)
13^th Week	Globalization and Global Culture(in relation to the Global Production Systems)
14^th Week	Popular Culture as the Language of the Power (On Today and Future: New Populist Revolt in the Post-Keynesian era)

Recommended or Required Reading

Adorno, T. W. (1993), "Theory of Pseudo-Culture (1959)", Telos, March 20, 1993, s: 15-38.
Arendt, H. (2018), İnsanlık Durumu, Çev.: B. S. Şener, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul.
Baudrillard, J. (2013), In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities...or the End of the Social and Other Essays,
Baudrillard, J. (2013), Simülakrlar Ve Simülasyon, Çev.: O. Adanır, Doğu-Batı Yayınları, İstanbul.
Debord, G. (2002), The Society of Spectacle, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-the-society-of-the-spectacle.pdf (erişim: 28.01.2019)
Deleuze, G. (1983), "Plato and the Simulacrum", İngilizceye Çeviren: R. Krauss, October, Vol. 27 (Winter 1983), s.: 45-56.
Dikmen, A. A. (2017), Makine, İş, Kapitalizm ve İnsan, Güncellenmiş 4. Baskı, Nota Bene Yayınları, İstanbul.
Heidegger, M. (1977), "The Age of World Picture", M. Heidegger, The Qoestion Concerning Technology and Other Essays içinde, İngilizceye Çeviren: W. Lovitt, Garland Publishing, New York & London, s: 115-154.
Heidegger, M. (1977), "The Question Concerning Technology", M. Heidegger, The Qoestion Concerning Technology and Other Essays içinde, İngilizceye Çeviren: W. Lovitt, Garland Publishing, New York & London, s: 3-35.
Pettersson, K., et.al. (2017), ?Understanding the Populist Revolt?, Social Europe Journal, Vol. 11.
Witkin, R. W. (2003), Adorno on Popular Culture, Routhladge, London & New York.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	20
Project	1	20
Attendance	1	25
Total(%)		65
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		65
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		35
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	1	1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	4	56
Preparation for Final exam	1	20	20
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	20	20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	1	1
Homework
Project	1	12	12
Total Work Load			152
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			5.06
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6
K1	X
K2
K3			X		X	X
K4
K5
K6					X
K7
K8				X
K9
K10
K11	X	X				X
K12
K13