GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED ISSUES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE/4350068
Course Title: ADVANCED ISSUES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Prof. Himmet Hülür
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/himmethulur
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  himmethulur@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Student achieves knowledge about the basic issues of sociology of knowledge.
Student gets knowledge about the historical development of sociology of knowledge.
Student learns the enlightenmentalist and modernist conceptions of knowledge, the essentialist and anti-essentialist approaches to knowledge.
Student, adavnces his/her knowledge on the historical context and limitation of knowledge.
Student, understands the possibilities of different forms of knowledge.
Student, understands the role and importance of scientific knowledge.
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 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is lecturing, presentation and discussion in the classrooom.
 -- 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  Introducing the course content Sociology of knowledge in general
2. Week  The roots of sociology of knowledge and the majaor issues of sociology of knowledge
3. Week  The enlightmentalist and essentialist conceptions of knowledge
4. Week  Objectivist, universalist and progressivist thesis of knowledge
5. Week  Knowledge and social context
6. Week  The historicity of knowledge
7. Week  The anti-essentialist conceptions of knowledge
8. Week  Knowledge and the conception of paradigm
9. Week  Midterm examination
10. Week  The theses on subject and object
11. Week  Mannheim and sociology of knowledge
12. Week  Gadamer and hermeneuitics
13. Week  Foucault, the order of knowledge and power
14. Week  Derrida and deconstruction
15. Week  Techno-scientificity and knowledge
16. Week  Final examination
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Susan Hekman, (1999) Bilgi Sosyolojisi ve Hermenutik, çev. H. Arslan ve B. Balkız, Paradigma Yayınları, İstanbul. DoyleMcCharty (2002) Bilgi Kültürü Yeni Bilgi Sosyolojisi, çev. A. Figen Yılmaz, Chiviyazıları, İstanbul. Thomas S. Kuhn (2011) Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı, çev. Nilüfer Kuyaş, Kırmızı Yayınları, İstanbul. Michel Foucault (2013) Kelimeler ve Şeyler, çev. M. Ali Kılıçbay, 4. Basım, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara. Michel Foucault (2013) Hapishanenin Doğuşu, çev. M. Ali Kılıçbay, 4. Basım, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara. Martin Heidegger (1998) Tekniğe İlişkin Soruşturma, çev. Doğan Özlem, Paradigma Yayınları, İstanbul. Mannheim, Karl (2009) İdeoloji ve Ütopya, çev. Mehmet Okyayuz, Deki Yayınları, Ankara.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecturing, presentation, discussion
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
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 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 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
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
14
4
56
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
3
42
 Designing and Applying Materials
14
3
42
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
3
3
 Final and Studying for Final
1
3
3
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
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5
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