SOCIOLOGY OF FASHION

MTT469

Course Code: MTT469
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 4

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

learn the theoretical and applied studies that exist in the field of fashion sociology.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

Various changes in fashion depending on sociological development and the social dimension of fashion; social value of fashion, economic-political and social effects in production and distribution relations.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Relationship between fashion and sociology.
2^nd Week	Basic concepts in fashion sociology.
3^rd Week	Sociological analysis, theory and method
4^th Week	Introduction to fashion sociology theories
5^th Week	Men's clothing, establishment of masculine identities, popular culture and women's identity struggle.
6^th Week	Gender ambivalence, eroticism and the dialectic of chastity.
7^th Week	Phases of the fashion process-Anti fashion trends
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Social status, alternative clothing, from class fashion to consumer fashion.
10^th Week	Instability in status, the relationship between culture industry and fashion.
11^th Week	Fashion and social structure in Far Eastern societies.
12^th Week	Social structure and fashion perception in the Middle East, Islam, Ottoman and Republican eras.
13^th Week	G. Simmel's theory of fashion.
14^th Week	general evaluation

Recommended or Required Reading

Adorno, The Culture Industry, (ed.J.M.Bernstein) Routladge, London 1991
Crane D., Moda ve Gündemleri, (Çev. Özge Çelik) Ayrıntı Yay. 2000 İstanbul
Davıs F., Moda Kültür ve Kimlik, (Çev. Özden Arıkan) Yapı Kredi Yay. 1997, İstanbul
Fischer J. Sosyoloji Nedir ? (Çev. Nilgün Çelebi) Atilla kitabevi, 1996, Ankara
Gür, Ş. Ö.; Mekan Örgütlenmesi, Gür Yayıncılık, Trabzon, 1996.
Haug W.F. Meta Estetiğinin Kritiği, (Çev. Metin Toprak) Felsefe Logos, 2008, İstanbul
Ülger Emir H., G.Simmel'de sınıfsal farklılığın nesnelleştiği bir alan: Moda felsefesi,Felsefe Dünyası, Sayı 59, 2014/1

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Presentation
Questions/Answers
Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Assignment	1	10
Attendance	1	10
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	3	3
Preparation for Quiz	0	0	0
Individual or group work	10	2	20
Preparation for Final exam	1	20	20
Course hours	3	14	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	10	10
Laboratory (including preparation)	0	0	0
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	10	2	20
Total Work Load			118
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			3.93
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1
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	LO1
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