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| Code | FDB1724 |
| Name | Sociology of Culture |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Term | Spring |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 6 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Yüksek Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
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Course Goal / Objective
The aim of the course is to give students detailed information about the sociology of culture, to provide students with knowledge and skills on topics such as intercultural diversity, culture and tradition.
Course Content
The scope of this course covers anthropological approach to culture, culture and tradition, culture and society issues.
Course Precondition
to be a registered student in the graduate program
Resources
The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture Edited by Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Notes
Alver, K. ve Doğan, N. (2018). Kültür Sosyolojisi. İstanbul: Çizgi Kitabevi. Mannheim, K. (2017). Kültür Sosyolojisi. Ankara: Pinhan Yayıncılık.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Students gain ability to understand, recognize, analyze and critic main problems of sociology of culture and examine them through different sociological points of view and they will be eligible to know and understand required sources. |
| LO02 | Students learn frameworks, main subjects, methods, terminology and literature of Sociology of Culture. |
| LO03 | Students learn the sources of Sociology of Culture. |
| LO04 | Students grasp emergence of Sociology of Culture. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students learn essential knowledge and approaches in the field. | 2 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students have extensive knowledge about national and international studies in the field. | |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students perform original researches on the field. | 2 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gain sufficient knowledge about national and international studies in the field. | |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Can do original research in the field. | |
| PLO06 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Determines a topic from the proposals and develops a report on this issue. | |
| PLO07 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Discusses and presents the research report. | |
| PLO08 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Use individual and team work skills in national and international projects | |
| PLO09 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Recognize the basic sources of the field to use in scientific studies. | 3 |
| PLO10 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Effective use of a foreign language to follow international literature in the field | |
| PLO11 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Using higher order thinking skills (critical thinking, problem solving, creative thinking, decision making, reflection) | |
| PLO12 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | They can conduct their work independently and as a member of a team. | |
| PLO13 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Using scientific research skills in their work | |
| PLO14 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Follow ethical rules |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHODStructure, Culture and Agency Margaret S. Archer | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 2 | Culture and Cognition, Albert J. Bergesen; Difference and Cultural Systems, Nancy Weiss Hanrahan | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 3 | CULTURAL SYSTEMS, Culture in Global Knowledge Societies: Knowledge Cultures and Epistemic Cultures Karin Knorr Cetina | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 4 | Media Culture(s) and Public Life Ronald N. Jacobs ‘Religion as a Cultural System’’: Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz Rhys H. Williams | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 5 | Aesthetic Uncertainty: The New Canon? Vera L. Zolberg Pragmatics of Taste Antoine Hennion | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 6 | PART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 145 9 Music and Social Experience 147 Tia DeNora 10 Consumer Culture 160 Daniel Thomas Cook | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 7 | Fame and Everyday Life: The ‘‘Lottery Celebrities’’ of Reality TV Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams Labor for Love: Rethinking Class and Culture in the Case of Single Motherhood Maria Kefalas | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
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| 9 | IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE New Developments in Class and Culture David Halle and L. Frank Weyher Sexuality and Religion: Negotiating Identity Differences Michele Dillon | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 10 | COLLECTIVE MEMORY Collective Memory: Why Culture Matters Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii Counter-Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past, Anna Lisa Tota | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 11 | Race after the Cultural Turn Orville Lee Museums and the Constitution of Culture Jan Marontate | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 12 | THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS Professions as Disciplinary Cultures Magali Sarfatti Larson Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality Susan S. Silbey | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 13 | Everyday Life and the Constitution of Legality Susan S. Silbey; THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 14 | 27 The Autonomy of Culture and the Invention of the Politics of Small Things: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Tartışma |
| 15 | Toward a Nonculturalist Sociology of Culture: On Class and Status in Globalizing Capitalism Nancy Fraser | Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
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| 17 | Term Exams | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 143 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 5,72 | ||
| ECTS | 6 ECTS | ||