COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FISCAL SOCIOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MLY 2008 FISCAL SOCIOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DILEK BAŞARAN

Offered to

Public Finance
Public Finance

Course Objective

Establishing the relationship between finance and sociology, to examine social and psychological factors affecting taxation, taxation of social responses to the causes and consequences of social structure, suitable to analyze and evaluate the features of the tax system.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To establish and explain the relationship between finance and sociology.
2   Describe examples of psychological and sociological factors that affect taxation.
3   To identify and interpret the problems of taxation.
4   To analyze the taxation shown in the political and social responses.
5   An ideal sort and interpret the basic features of the tax system.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Sociology and Sociology of Finance: Basic Concepts
2 Tax Burden in the world and in Turkey
3 The Theory of Informal Economy
4 Dimensions of the Informal Economy in the world
5 Dimensions of the informal economy in Turkey
6 Principles of Taxation (an evaluation of psychological and sociological perspective)
7 Tax Burden and Tax Pressure
8 Midterm exam
9 Midterm exam
10 Economics of crime
11 Tax Ethics and Awareness
12 Tax amnesties
13 Tax Resistance and Tax Revolts
14 Ideal Tax System

Recomended or Required Reading

Fiscal Sociology lucter notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

dilek.dileyici@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 16:00 - 17:00 Room Number: 515

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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