COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to understand, analyze and project the emergence of modern consumerism, its historical background, its causes and its effects on social cognition and social policy. The course is also aims to discuss the degradation effect of consumerism on social policy. By revealing such topics, psychobiographic space of an individual will be also on focus to understand the erosion of social cognition and social life.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire, Peter N. Stearns, Routledge, 2007.
2- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjofsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014, W.W Norton and Company Publishing, MIT Press, 2014.
3- The Corporate Assault on Youth: Commercialism, Exploitation and the End of Innocence, Edited by Deren Boyles, Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.
4- Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability: Paradise Lost , Edited by Lyn Thomas, Palgrave Macmilla, London, 2011.
5- After the Future: Franco Berardi, AK Press 2011, Edinburgh.
6- Social Policy and Social Change: Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice, Jillan Jimenez, 2010.
7- The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - And Why by Richard E. Nisbett, Free Press, New York, 2005.
8- The Social Conquest of Earth, Edward O. Wilson, Liveright Publishing, 2013.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, class discussions, ted talks, videos and student assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures.

2. Students supposed to read the materials before lecture and participate the classroom discussions.

3. Students are expected to make presentations about the subjects given by the lecturer.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes