will understand the relationships between sociology and social work disciplines.
Mode of Delivery
Face to face
Prerequisites
No
Recommended Optional Programme Components
There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course Description
The purpose of the introductory sociology course is to provide students with a detailed understanding of the discipline and development of sociology.
Course Contents
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
The disciplinarization of sociology: separation from philosophy and psychology, methodological development, and colonialism
2nd Week
Durkheim and macro-physical sociology
3rd Week
Simmel's sociology and Neo-Kantianism
4th Week
Tarde and the end of the social
5th Week
Rescuing Marxism's political ontology from sociology
6th Week
Weberian sociology and Marxism debates
7th Week
Elias and figurational sociology
8th Week
Midterm Exam
9th Week
Parsons' system theory and its position in contemporary sociology
10th Week
Adorno and Horkheimer's sociological expansion and the Frankfurt School
11th Week
Bauman's sociology
12th Week
Latour and relational sociology
13th Week
Bourdieu's sociology: field, habitus, capital
14th Week
Giddens and intervening in the structure-agency dilemma in sociology
15th Week
Microsociology and force dynamics in the tradition of Deleuze and Foucault
Recommended or Required Reading
John J. Macionis & Ken Plummer (2005). Sociology. A Global Introduction, Third Edition.
Brovne, K. (2014). Sosyolojiye Giriş, Çev. İbrahim Kaya, İstanbul: Say Yayınları.
Doğan, İ. (2008). Sosyoloji: Kavramlar ve Sorunlar, Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Discussion
Lecture
Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity
Percentage (%)
Mid-term
1
40
Total(%)
40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
