GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY/2780045

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assist.Prof.Erdal AKSOY

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

erdalaksoy@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Understanding the concept of culture
Learning the social roots of culture

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	What is culture?
2. Week	Culture in Classical Sociological Perspective
3. Week	Integration and Culture
4. Week	Conflict and Culture
5. Week	Frankfurt Scholl and Culture
6. Week	Symbolic interaction and culture
7. Week	Fenomonology ve culture
8. Week	Midterm exam
9. Week	Etnometodology and culture
10. Week	Cultural structure and actor
11. Week	Production of culture
12. Week	Hermeneutics and culture
13. Week	Cultural analysis of postmodernism
14. Week	Evaluation
15. Week	Final exam
16. Week

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Edles, Laura D., Uygulamalı Kültürel Sosyoloji, Babil Yayınları. Smith, Philip, Kültürel Kuram, Babil Yayınları.

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer,Discussion

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	20
Assignment	1	20
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	4	56
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	9	5	45
Searching in Internet and Library	12	3	36
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports	14	3	42
Preparing Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	5	5
Final and Studying for Final	1	6	6
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			190
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.6
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Having knowledge about sociology, social policy, political economy, social structure analysis, social change on the advanced level.					X
2	To learn and gain ability to embody concepts such as social status, social role, social identity and social values, gaining in the social structure.				X
3	To understand importance of social work in struggle social exclusion.				X
4	To develop effective policy proposal about social rehabilitation.				X
5	To understand social norms as an component that determine individual behaviours.				X
6	To understand social norms as an component that determines individual behaviours.					X
7	To learn how to reduce the social inequality in the legal relations.				X
8	To define concept of social stratification and evaluate systems of social stratification.					X
9	To produce policies that can be applied for disadvantaged groups.				X
10	To make comparative analysis of Turkish and Western entrepreneurial mentalities.				X
11	To gain using effectively the concept of social work with a sociological aspect in solving social policy problems.					X
12	To gain ability to make an analysis on the concepts such crime and violence in the frame of foundation terms as religion, culture, economics which describes social life.					X
13	To learn and use written and non-written grammer rules of Turkish and foreign language on the advanced level.					X

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