COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology (Evening)
Sociology

Course Objective

To understand culture with the sociological perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand the areas of study and methods of the culture of sociology
2   to understand basic concepts and frames of the culture of sociology
3   to learn contemporary approaches to the social dimension of culture
4   to understand the methods of analysis of cultural forms and processes
5   to understand different theories of and approaches to culture by making comparisons

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and areas of the culture of sociology (1)
2 Sociological perspectives to culture (1, 2)
3 Cultural turn in the social sciences (3)
4 The symbolic construction of community (4)
5 Ethnic grups and their constructions (5)
6 Nation and construcion of nation (6, 7)
7 Political Culture (13)
8 On the political culture Gramsci and the concept of Hegemony (13)
9 Mid-Term
10 State and Culture (6)
11 Identity and the Theories of Identity (8, 11)
12 collective Identities and Their Constuctions (5, 6, 7, 12)

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Lynette Spillman, Cultural Sociology, Blackwell, Oxford.
2. Raymond Williams, 1991, Kültür, Ankara: Imge
3. Fredric Jameson, 2005, Kültürel Dönemeç, Ankara: Dost Kitabevi
4. Anthony Cohen, 1999, Topluluğun simgesel Kuruluşu, Ankara: Dost Kitabevi
5. Fredrick Barth, 2001, Etnik Gruplar ve Sınırları, Ankara: Bağlam Yayıncılık
6. Benedict Anderson, 1983, Imagined Communities, Londra: Verso
7. Eric Hobsbawn , Terence Ranger, 1983, Inventing Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
8. Nuri Bilgin, 1994, Sosyal Bilimlerin Kavşağında Kimlik Sorunu, Izmir: Ege Yayıncılık
9. Connolly, W. E. 1991, Identity/Difference, Ithaca: Cornell University Press
10. John, Tomlinson, 1991, Kültürel Emperyalizm, Istanbul: Ayrıntı
11. Simone de Beauvoir, 1993, Ikinci Cins I, II, III Cilt, Istanbul: Payel
12. Ian Chambers, 1994, Göç, Kültür, Kimlik, Istanbul: Ayrıntı
13. Antonio Gramsci, Hapishane Defterleri

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 3 48
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55

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