Sosyolojiye Giriş I

SOS 303 SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (4-0 ) 4 5 AKTS

Sociological change, assimilation, socio-cultural engagement, socio-cultural change and such concepts are being taught and the stages towards these are analyzed. Besides, classical and modern theories are being discussed. Capitalism, modernism and society, the first era of writing, ethnocentric evolution, second era of writing: modernizing development theory, addiction school, world system and approach, Marxist development writing, underdevelopment, egalitarian development, basic needs theory, postmodernism, women empowerment.

Course Book:

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  Toplumsal Değişme Kuramları, P. R. Appelbaum, , Türkiye İş Bankası Yayını, İstanbul, 1981.
  
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  Gelişme Yazını Açısından Modernizm, Kapitalizm ve Azgelişmişlik, Sarmal Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1996.
  
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  Modernliğin Sosyolojisi, Peter Wagner, Sarmal Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1996.
  
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  Modernliğin Eleştirisi, Alain Touraine, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 1995.
  

Other References:

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  Postkapitalist Paradigmalar, İlker Belek, Sorun Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Bireyselleşmiş Toplum, Zygmunt Bauman, çev. Yavuz Alogan, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005.
  

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  Kapitalist Ötesi Toplum Drucker, Peter F., İnkılap Kitabevi, İstanbul,1992
  
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  .“Sosyolojinin Laboratuarı Olarak Toplumsal Değişim Olgusu”, Sosyo  Ekonomik Perspektif, Jean Duvıgnaud, Asa Kitabevi, Bursa, 2001.
  
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  Bilgi Toplumu ve Ekonomik Gelişme, Hüsnü Erkan,  Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Küreselleşme ve Türkiye Ekonomisine Etkisi Rana Eşkinat,, Anadolu Üni. Yay. No: 1036, Eskişehir, 1998.
  
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  Tarihin Sonu ve Son İnsan Francıs Fukuyama, Gün Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1999.Sosyoloji, Anthony Giddens, Ayraç Yayınları, Ankara, 2000.
  
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  “Medeniyetler Çatışması mı?”, Medeniyetler Çatışması Huntington, S.P, Vadi Yayınları, Ankara, 2001.
  
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  Social Change and History Nispet, Robert A., London, Oxford University Press,1972.
  
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  Postmodernizm, Gencay Şaylan, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara,1999.
  
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  Sosyal ve Kültürel Değişme, Mahmut Tezcan, A.Ü. E.B.F. Yayınları, No:129, Ankara,1985. 
  
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  Toplumsal Değişme Mahmut Tezcan, Feryal Matbaası, Ankara, 1995.
  

SOS 304 CULTURE THEORIES (4-0 ) 4 5 AKTS

Culture and related concepts (cultural engagement, national culture, global culture, modernization, cultural assimilation, cultural change, acculturation, amalgamation, cultural relativity, ethnic group and so on), intercultural interaction,  cultural theories, globalization and global culture discussions.

Course Book:

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  Kültür Örüntüleri, Ruth Benedict, Öteki Yayınevi, (Çev. Mustafa Topal), Ankara, 1999.
  
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  İnsan Davranışının Kültürel Temelleri, Philip K. Bock (Çev. N. Serpil Altuntek) İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2001.        
  
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  Smith Philips, Kültürel Kuram, Babil Yayınları (Çev. Selime Güzelsarı), İstanbul, 2005
  
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  Bronislaw Malinowski, Bilimsel Bir Kültür Teorisi, Kabalcı Yayınevi, (Çev. Saadet Özkal), İstanbul, 1992.
  
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  ROBERTSON, Roland Robertson, Küreselleşme: Toplum Kuramı ve Küresel Kültür, Bilim ve Sanat. (Çev. Ümit Hüsrev Yolsal), Ankara, 1999
  
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  Mümtaz Turhan(Kültür Değişmeleri, Millî Eğitim Basımevi, İstanbul 1969.
  
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  UYGUR, Nermi.(1996). Kültür Kuramı, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
  

SOS 305 POLITICS AND SOCIETY (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

Meaning of politics, subject and its functions, the birth of classic political science, the subject of new political science, political power, “state” according to political science, legality of political power, political participation and political culture, political systems and public, pressure groups, democracy and social state.

Course Book:

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  Siyasal Rejimler, Maurice Duverge, çev. Teoman Tunçdoğan, Sosyal Yayınlar, Ankara, 1986.
  
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  Batı'da Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi-3-Yakın Çağ, Mete Tunçay, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2008.
  
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  Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, Alaeddin Şenel, V Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.
  
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  Siyasal Sosyoloji, Ali Yaşar Sarıbay, Der Yayınları, İstanbul, 1998.
  

Other References:

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  Siyasetin Sosyolojisi, Nur vergin, Bağlam Yayınları, İstanbul, 2003.
  
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  Siyasi Partiler, Maurice Duverger, Bilgi Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1974.
  
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  Türkiye’de Siyasi Partiler, Zafer Tarık Tunaya, Arba Yayınları, İstanbul, 1952.
  
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  Güçlü Demokrasi-Yeni Bir Çağ İçin Katılımcı Siyaset, çev.Mehmet Beşikçi, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1995.
  
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  Siyasallığın İcadı, Ulrich Beck, çev.Nihat Ülner, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 1999.
  
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  Siyaset, Sosyoloji ve Toplumsal Teori, Anthony Giddens, çev. T. Birkan, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 1996.
  
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  Modern Türkiye’de Siyasi Düşünce, der. Ayşe Öncü, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002.
  

SOS 306 SOCIOLOGY IN TURKEY (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

Development of sociology in Turkey, its relation to Western sociology and its results, entrance of modern sciences into Turkey and echoes, Sociology in Turkey and its functions, basic issues in Turkish sociology, main research topics in Turkish sociology, Turkish sociology related studies, people, thinkers, sociologists, and their products.

Course Book:

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  75. Yılında Türkiye'de Sosyoloji, yay. haz. İsmail Coşkun, Bağlam Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1991.
  

Other References:

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  Türk Sosyoloji Tarihine Bir Katkı, Yasin Aktay, Küre Yayınları, İstanbul, 2010.
  
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  Türk Sosyologları ve Eserleri 1- Temel Tartışmalar, Ertan Eğribel, Ufuk Özcan, Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2010.
  
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  Türk Sosyologları ve Eserleri 2- Genel Eğilimler ve Kurumsallaşma, Ertan Eğribel, Ufuk Özcan, Kitabevi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2010.
  

SOS 307 STATISTICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES I (3-2 ) 4 5 AKTS

Exemplifications, parametric techniques, non-parametric techniques, analysis techniques about studying one particular topic, correlation analysis, SPSS program qualifications, qualitative and quantitative analysis in social sciences and other techniques and methods.

Course Book:

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  Sosyal Bilimlerde Bilgisayar Destekli Nitel Veri Analizi, Elif Kuş, Anı Yayınları, Ankara, 2007.
  

Other References:

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  SPSS Uygulamalı Bilimsel Araştırma Yöntemleri, Yahşi Yazıcıoğlu, Samiye Erdoğan, Detay yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004.
  
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  Temel İstatistik 2, Metin ÇAKICI, Adil OGUZHAN, Tuncer ÖZDİL, Özal Matbaası, İstanbul, 2000.
  
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  Veri analizleri el kitabı, SPSS uygulamaları, Şener Büyüköztürk, Pegem yayınları, Ankara, 2004.
  

SOS 308 STATISTICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES II (3-2 ) 4 5 AKTS

Exemplifications, parametric techniques, non-parametric techniques, analysis techniques about studying one particular topic, correlation analysis, SPSS program qualifications, qualitative and quantitative analysis in social sciences and other techniques and methods.

Course Book:

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  Sosyal Bilimlerde Bilgisayar Destekli Nitel Veri Analizi, Elif Kuş, Anı Yayınları, Ankara, 2007.
  

Other References:

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  SPSS Uygulamalı Bilimsel Araştırma Yöntemleri, Yahşi Yazıcıoğlu, Samiye Erdoğan, Detay yayıncılık, Ankara, 2004.
  
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  Temel İstatistik 2, Metin ÇAKICI, Adil OGUZHAN, Tuncer ÖZDİL, Özal Matbaası, İstanbul, 2000.
  
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  Veri analizleri el kitabı, SPSS uygulamaları, Şener Büyüköztürk, Pegem yayınları, Ankara, 2004.
  

SSP 900 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECT (1-2) 2 3 AKTS

The importance of social responsibility, detect of social agenda problems and working on solution ways to solve this problems, attending to conferences, seminars, and symposiums as audience, volunteering in different social responsibility projects in schools or in other public places.

SOS 401 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY THEORIES I (3-0 ) 3 6 AKTS

Critics of positivism, social action as a concept, social sciences and understanding, Simmel and socialization concept, understanding and method issues, Weber, ideal and social action, religion and social action, capitalism and protestant ethics, the logic of rationalism, social action and social system, Pareto, sociology of everyday life, action theory and self, Mead, Pareto, Blumer, Husserl and Schultz, Garfink, Berger ve Luckmann and their studies and theories.

Course Book:

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  Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları, Margaret M. Poloma, Gündoğan Yayınları, Ankara, 1993.
  

Other References:

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  Sosyolojik Çözümlemenin Tarihi, Tom Bottomore ve Robert Nisbet, V Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.
  
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  Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Tarihi, Alan Swingewood, Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul, 2001.
  
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  Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri, Raymond Aron, Bilgi Yayınevi, çev. K. Alemdar, Ankara, 1989.
  
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  Sosyoloji Notları, Nilgün Çelebi, Anı yayıncılık, Ankara, 2007.
  
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  Bilim Olarak Sosyal Teori, Russel Keat ve John Urry, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 1994.
  
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  Aydınlanma Çağı, Norman Hampson, Hürriyet Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991.
  
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  Felsefe ve Doğa Bilimleri, Doğan Özlem, İnkılap Kitabevi, 1996.
  
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  Aydınlanma Düşüncesi, Ahmet Çiğdem, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Sosyal Bilimlerin Mantığı Üzerine, Jürgen Habermas, Kabalcı Yayınevi, çev. Mustafa Tüzel, İstanbul, 1998.
  
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  Bir İmkan Olarak Modernite, Ahmet Çiğdem, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Sosyolojik Metodun Kuralları, Emile Durkheim, Sosyal Yayınları, çev. E. Aytekin, İstanbul, 1986.
  
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  Durkheim Sosyolojisi, Nurettin Şazi Kösemihal, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1971.
  
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  Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Örgütlenme Kuramı, Max Weber, İmge Kitabevi, çev. Özer Ozankaya, Ankara, 1995.
  
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  Protestan Ahlakı ve Kapitalizmin Ruhu, Max Weber, Hil Yayınları, çev. Z. Aruoba, İstanbul, 1997.
  

SOS 402 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY THEORIES II (3-0 ) 3 6 AKTS

Critics of positivism, social action as a concept, social sciences and understanding, Simmel and socialization concept, understanding and method issues, Weber, ideal and social action, religion and social action, capitalism and protestant ethics,  the logic of rationalism, social action and social system, Pareto, sociology of everyday life, action theory and self, Mead, Pareto, Blumer, Husserl and Schultz, Garfink, Berger ve Luckmann and their studies and theories.

Course Book:

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  Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları, Margaret M. Poloma, Gündoğan Yayınları, Ankara, 1993.
  

Other References:

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  Sosyolojik Çözümlemenin Tarihi, Tom Bottomore ve Robert Nisbet, V Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.
  
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  Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Tarihi, Alan Swingewood, Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul, 2001.
  
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  Sosyolojik Düşüncenin Evreleri, Raymond Aron, Bilgi Yayınevi, çev. K. Alemdar, Ankara, 1989.
  
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  Sosyoloji Notları, Nilgün Çelebi, Anı yayıncılık, Ankara, 2007.
  
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  Bilim Olarak Sosyal Teori, Russel Keat ve John Urry, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 1994.
  
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  Aydınlanma Çağı, Norman Hampson, Hürriyet Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991.
  
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  Felsefe ve Doğa Bilimleri, Doğan Özlem, İnkılap Kitabevi, 1996.
  
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  Aydınlanma Düşüncesi, Ahmet Çiğdem, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Sosyal Bilimlerin Mantığı Üzerine, Jürgen Habermas, Kabalcı Yayınevi, çev. Mustafa Tüzel, İstanbul, 1998.
  
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  Bir İmkan Olarak Modernite, Ahmet Çiğdem, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Sosyolojik Metodun Kuralları, Emile Durkheim, Sosyal Yayınları, çev. E. Aytekin, İstanbul, 1986.
  
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  Durkheim Sosyolojisi, Nurettin Şazi Kösemihal, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1971.
  
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  Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Örgütlenme Kuramı, Max Weber, İmge Kitabevi, çev. Özer Ozankaya, Ankara, 1995.
  
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  Protestan Ahlakı ve Kapitalizmin Ruhu, Max Weber, Hil Yayınları, çev. Z. Aruoba, İstanbul, 1997.
  

SOS 403 FINAL PROJECT I (2-2 ) 3 8 AKTS

Student present her findings, empirical and institutional results at the end of her research as a report during final project I for further studies and researches.

Resources:
Resources suggested by the supervisor according to topic of research and also resources of student whilst doing her study.

SOS 404 FINAL PROJECT II (2-2 ) 3 8 AKTS

Student present her findings, empirical and institutional results at the end of her research as a report during final project I for further studies and researches.

Resources:
Resources suggested by the supervisor according to topic of research and also resources of student whilst doing her study.

ELECTIVE COURSES

SOS 311 INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (3-0 ) 3 4 AKTS

This course includes topics such as change in means of production and the psychological effects of technological change, elementary forms of labor organization, machinization and its effects, sceintific turn in the organization of labor: Taylorism, the second scientific period in the organization of labor: Fordism, the last step in the organization of labor and technology: flexibility, flexible specialization, change in the sectoral distribution of labor power, the feminization of labor power, change in the age distribution of labor power and its psychological effects, capitalist organizational structure, the perception of change in the class structure, analysis of class and class conflicts in the post-capitalist paradigm, the perception of new middle class, new social movements, post-capitalist social formation, post-capitalist paradigm and technological determinism, post-fordism, post-industrial society, the second industrial segmentation theory, information society, post-fordist model of society, disorganized capitalism and its relationship with psychology.

Course Book:

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  Sanayileşmenin Kültür Temelleri, John U. Nef, çev. Erol Güngör, Milli Eğitim Basımevi,İstanbul, 1970.
  

Other References:

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  Postkapitalist Paradigmalar, İlker Belek, Sorun Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  İktisadi Aklın Eleştirisi, Andre Gorz, çev. Işık Ergüden, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1995.
  
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  Gelişme Yazını Açısından Modernizm, Kapitalizm ve Azgelişmişlik, Sarmal Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1996.
  
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  Postmodernliğin Durumu, David Harvey, çev. Sungur Savran, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
  
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  Bireyselleşmiş Toplum, Zygmunt Bauman, çev. Yavuz Alogan, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005.
  

SOS 312 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

Society and environment relationship, basic notions of human-nature relationship, environmental movements in Turkey, evolution of ecological problem in Turkey and the world, actual environmental problems, basic notions of environment and environmental problems: environmental rights, ecologic balances, diversification, re-cycling, environmental trends and approaches: utopic socialists, human centered environmental approach, approach of garden cities, environmental approach of laissez faire, laissez passer, environment and development, politics of environment, environmental management and organization in Turkey, NGO’s, international organizations.

Course Book:

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  Çevre Bilimleri, Hasan Ertürk, Ekin Basım Yayın, Bursa, 2009.
  

Other References:

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  Çevre Sorunları, Turgut Gündüz, Gazi Kitapevi, Ankara
  
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  Çevre Politikası, Ruşen Keleş, Can Hamamcı, Aykut Çoban, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2009.
  
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  Çevre, Kalkınma ve Etik, İhsan Keleş, Hatice Metin, Hatice Özkan Sancak, Alter Yayıncılık, 2005.
  

SOS 313 CLASSICAL LOGIC (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

This course aims to teach the field and principles of logic, definition of logic, characteristics of logic, information truth-logical truth, basic concepts about logic, intension-extension relationship, empricism, rationalism, five sorts of predicable words (genus, the kind; the species; the essential difference; the characteristic, property; the accident), types of thinking (analogy, induction, deduction), laws of thinking (law of identity, law of noncontradiction, law of excluded middle, law of sufficient reason), concepts and relations between concepts, and propositions and types of propositions.

Course Book:

Klasik Mantık, A. Kadir Çüçen, İstanbul, 2012

SOS 314 MODERN LOGIC (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

This course aims to discuss the contents of modern (symbolic) logic, logic of propositions, logic of predicates, rules of basic inference, basic truth tables, equivalence of proposition, inference, consistency, logic of quantification, open propositions, principle of specialization and rules of specialization.

Course Book:

Mantık, A. Kadir Çüçen, İstanbul, 2012

SOS 315 SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

Historical roots of consumption and its conceptual background will be investigated. The aim of the course is to evaluate changing meaning and importance of consumption in today’s society and also studying the effect of consumption on creating and generalizing of cultural values.

Course Book:

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  Yaşam Tarzları, David Chaney, Dost Kitapevi, Ankara 1999
  

Other References:

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  Tüketim Sosyolojisi, Cengiz Yanıklar, Birey Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
  
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  Tüketim Sosyolojisi, Abdülkadir Zorlu, Glocal Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
  
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  Tüketimin Antropolojisi, Baron Isherwood, Mary Douglas, Dost Kitapevi, Ankara, 1999
  
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  Medya ve Tüketim Sosyolojisi, Hüseyin Köse, Ayraç Yayınları, Ankara, 2010.
  
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  Postmodern Pazarlama, Yavuz Odabaşı MediaCat Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
  
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  Postmodernizm ve Tüketim Kültürü, Mike Featherstone, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005.
  
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  Tüketim Kültürü Yetinen Toplumdan Tüketen topluma, Yavuz Odabaşı, Sistem Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1999.
  
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  Jean Baudrillard, Tüketim Toplumu, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  

SOS 316 MASS PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA (4-0 ) 4 4 AKTS

This course aims to discuss communication research: fundamentals and development, means of mass communication and theory of communication, speech-act, literacy, features of mass communication, culture industries, critical theory and culture, ideology and media studies, feminist theories and media studies, culture and ideological impact, Frankfurt School and analysis of culture, discourse, media and psychology relationship, media and the perception of democracy, psychology of communication and modernity, individual and mass communication, media ethics-advertisements, cultural structure of communication and its psychological impact, globalization and culture, information and media, reification in the mass culture and utopia, communication theory of Habermas, the politics of communication and communication of politics, advertising-social responsibility and ethics, and computerized communication: internet.

Course Book:

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  Kimlik Mekanları - Küresel Medya, Elektronik Ortamlar ve Kültürel Sınırlar, David Morley ve Kevin Robins, çev. Emrehan Zeybekoğlu, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Medya, İktidar, İdeoloji, Mehmet Küçük, Ark Yayınları,İstanbul, 1999.
  
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  Medya Denetimi, Noam Chomsky, çev. Şen Süer, Tüm Zamanlar Yayınları, İstanbul, 1995.
  
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  Kitle İletişimi Kuramları, der. Erol Mutlu, Ütopya Yayınevi, Ankara, 2005.
  
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  İletişim Çalışmalarına Giriş, John Fiske, çev. Süleyman İrvan, Ark Yayınları, Ankara, 1996.
  
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  İletişimsel Eylem Kuramı (Cilt I,Cilt II), Jürgen Habermas, çev. Mustafa Tüzel, Kabalcı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2001.
  
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  Medya Halka Nasıl Evet Dedirtir? Kitle İletişim Araçlarının Ekonomi Politiği, Edward Hertman-Noam Chomsky, Minerva Yayınları, İstanbul, 1998.
  
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  Tüketim Toplumu, Jean Baudrillard, çev. Hazal Deliceçaylı, Ferda Keskin, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2010.
  

Other References:

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  Medya ve Demokrasi, John Keane, çev.Haluk Şahin, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1999.
  
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  Kitle Kültürü Enformatik Cehalet, Nabi Avcı, Rehber Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.
  
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  Simülakrlar ve Simülasyon, Jean Baudrillard, çev.Oğuz Adanır, Dokuz Eylül Yayınları, İzmir, 1998.
  
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  Siyaset, Medya ve Ötesi, Naci Bostancı, Vadi Yayınları, Ankara, 1998.
  
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  Toplumbilim Sorunları, Pierre Bourdieu, çev. Işık Ergüden, Kesit Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Televizyon Üzerine, Pierre Bourdieu, çev. Turhan Ilgaz, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.
  
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  Medya ve Etik, Bülent Çaplı, İmge Yayınları, Ankara, 2002.
  

SOS 317 SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH (3-0 ) 3 4 AKTS

This course contains; youth and youth related conceptual definitions; youth images in different society and culture, as a social fiction youth discourse and modern paradigm of youth, in exchange of image and representation, rebuilding of youth, in different families young and youth; representation of youth image in school, religious relationship and media; reproduction of youth in paternalist politics, state and “citizen youth”, working youth and homeless young; social problems-health, war, migration, poorness, exploitation, nourishment, youth in context of urbanization, new youth image and representation in post-modern circumstances, socialization of youth, youth and crime, conflict of generations, youth in urban and rural.

Course Book:

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  Gençlik Sosyolojisi Yazıları, Mahmut Tezcan, Gündoğan Yayınları, İstanbul, 1996
  

Other References:

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  Göç ve Gençli, Vildan Akan, Toplum ve Göç içinde Sosyoloji Derneği Yayınları s:521-532. Ankara
  
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  The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, D. Bell, Heinmann. London, 1978,
  
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  Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood, L. Kaplan Simon-Schuster, New York, 1984