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Ph.D. on Management and Organization

MAN605

SOCIAL THEORY

Course Code
MAN605
Semester
First Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelDoctorate Of Science
Year of Study1
SemesterFirst Term (Fall)
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s) -
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Will learn prominent paradigms and comprehend key differences between these paradigms in the field of management and organization.
  2. Will comprehend the reciprocal interaction process between actor and the social structure.
  3. Understand how and why movements in social structure occur
  4. Will comprehend the relationship between power and legitimacy in the social structure.
  5. Understands the individual, organizational and social conflicts and knows the power element of these conflicts.
  6. Will understand the debate between modernity and post-modernity.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionIn scope of this course, the search for reconciliation will dominate within the framework of a scientific realistic paradigm that also addresses the tides in social theory. In order to achieve the goal, we will try not to go beyond the basic guiding of social ontology and epistemology. Obviously this posture does not aim to exclude those who are in search of different paradigms.Participants are free to pursue different paradigms and defend them for the scientific framework.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction: Map of the Sociological Field.
2nd Week Introduction: Map of the Sociological Field.
3rd Week Introduction: Map of the Sociological Field.
4th Week Agent or Actor: Dimensions of Micro
5th Week Agent or Actor: Dimensions of Micro
6th Week Structure or Agent: Dimensions of Macro
7th Week Structure or Agent: Dimensions of Macro
8th Week Conflict and Power
9th Week Conflict and Power
10th Week Conflict and Power
11th Week Modernity
12th Week Modernity
13th Week Post-Modernity
14th Week Post-Modernity
15th Week General Assessment
Recommended or Required ReadingSibeon, R. 2004. Rethinking social theory. London: Sage.
Burrell, G. ve Morgan, G. 1979. Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. New Hampshire: Heineman
Thalos, M. 2011. Two conceptions of fundamentality. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 41(2):151-177.
Pickel, A. 2004. Systems and mechanisms: A symposium on Mario Bunge?s philosophy of social science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 34(2):169-181.
Demetriou, C. 2009. The realist approach to explanatory mechanisms in social science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 39(3):440-462.
Kemp, S. 2012. Interests and structure in dualist social theory: A critical appraisal of Archer?s theoretical and empirical arguments. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 42(4):489-510.
Giddens, A. 1983. Class Division, Class Conflict and Citizenship Rights. A. Giddens (Der.), Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory:164-180. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Giddens, A. 1983. Power, the Dialectic of Control and Class Structuration. A. Giddens (Der.), Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory:197-213. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Reed, I. A. 2013. Power: Relational, discursive, and performayive dimensions. Sociological Theory, 3(3):193-218.
Mouzelis, N. 2012. Modernity and the secularization debate. Sociology, 46(2):207-223.
Lee, R. 2013. Modernity, modernities and modernization: Tradition reappraised. Social Science Information, 52(3):409-424.
Delanty, G. 2015. Europe in world regional perspective: Formations of modernity and major historical transformations. The British Journal of Sociology, 66(3):420-440.
Düzgün, E. Class, state and property: Modernity and capitalism in Turkey. European Journal of Sociology, 53(2):119-148.
Aakvaag, G. C. 2012. Social mechanisms and grand theories of modernity ? worlds apart? Acta Sociologica, 56(3):199-212
Wood, E. M. 1997. Modernity, postmodernity or capitalism? Review of International Political Economy, 4(3):539-560.
Richardson, L. 1991. Postmodern social theory: Representational practices. Social Theory, 9(2):173-179.
Kellner, D. 1988. Postmodernism as social theory: Some challenges and problems. Theory, Culture and Society, 5:239-269.
Boghossian, P. A. 1996. What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us. Times Literary Supplement, December:14-15.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Attendance 1 10
Presentation of Article 1 90
Total(%) 100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 0
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework
Article 5 50 250
Total Work Load292
Total Work Load / 30 (h)9.73
ECTS Credit of the Course10
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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