Course Name | Code | Semester | T+U Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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Social Sciences Is Methodology Discussions | SOS 619 | 0 | 3 + 0 | 3 | 6 |
Precondition Courses | |
Recommended Optional Courses | |
Course Language | Turkish |
Course Level | Doctorate Degree |
Course Type | Optional |
Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. İSMAİL HİRA |
Course Lecturers | |
Course Assistants | Res. Asist.Mehmet ANIK, Res. Asist.Bayram KAHRAMAN |
Course Category | |
Course Objective | In this course, the aim is to look at modern sociological trends in the light of new theoretical approaches in sociology, which are based on methodology. |
Course Content | Within this framework, The Enlightment, methodological critiques towards modernity and, related to these, discussions of notions of person will be focused. |
# | Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
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1 | S/he learns the basic theories of methodological debates in social sciences. | Lecture, Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
2 | S/he learns classic texts on social reality theories expressed in methodological practices. | Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
3 | S/he learns method approach and on what it is discussed in those studies. | Lecture, Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
4 | S/ he realizes alternative paradigms of classical and contemporary sociology in interpreting to social reality. | Lecture, Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
5 | S/he recognize the representatives of the methodological discussions of contemporary sociology. | Lecture, Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
6 | S/ he could increase an ability to better recognize and interpret of his own social reality. | Lecture, Discussion, Group Study, | Testing, Homework, |
Week | Course Topics | Preliminary Preparation |
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1 | As a Method Pozitivism in Social Science | |
2 | Popper: Falsification on Critical Rationalism (Neo-Pozitivism) | |
3 | Frankfurt School: Marcuse, Horkheimer, Habermas I | |
4 | Frankfurt School Marcuse, Horkheimer, Habermas II | |
5 | Wittgenstein: From Meanin’s Picture Theory to Language Game | |
6 | Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
7 | Lakatos: The Methodology of Scientific Researsh Programmes | |
8 | Althusser: Society, Ekonomics, and Ideology | |
9 | Midterm exam | |
10 | Feyerabend: Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge or Theoretical Pluralism | |
11 | Hermeneutic:Gadamer (Tradition, Historical Conscious, and Authority | |
12 | Hermeneutic: Derrida (Deconstruction) | |
13 | Foucault: As a Telling Marginality versus Meta-narrative | |
14 | Poststructualism and Postmodernism I |
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Course Notes | |
Course Resources |
Order | Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
1 | To be able to perceive and evaluate social matters at national and universal level | X | |||||
1 | To be able to perceive and evaluate social matters at national and universal level | X | |||||
2 | To be able to evaluate sociological process from beginning to current in terms of leading Turkish thinkers at national level | X | |||||
2 | To be able to evaluate sociological process from beginning to current in terms of leading Turkish thinkers at national level | X | |||||
3 | To be able to understand and solve the particular social problems and closely acquainted with related branches of Sociology | X | |||||
3 | To be able to understand and solve the particular social problems and closely acquainted with related branches of Sociology | X | |||||
4 | To be able to interrogate and pose a question on popular contemporary sociological concepts objectively as globalization, multiculturalism, identity and postmodernism | X | |||||
4 | To be able to interrogate and pose a question on popular contemporary sociological concepts objectively as globalization, multiculturalism, identity and postmodernism | X | |||||
5 | To be able to do researches and to improve a method about the sociological problems and produce solutions | X | |||||
5 | To be able to do researches and to improve a method about the sociological problems and produce solutions | X | |||||
6 | To be able to analyze the social conditions in nineteenth century that caused rising of Sociology | ||||||
6 | To be able to analyze the social conditions in nineteenth century that caused rising of Sociology | ||||||
7 | X | ||||||
7 | X |
Evaluation System | |
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Semester Studies | Contribution Rate |
1. Ara Sınav | 60 |
1. Kısa Sınav | 5 |
1. Ödev | 30 |
2. Kısa Sınav | 5 |
Total | 100 |
1. Yıl İçinin Başarıya | 60 |
1. Final | 40 |
Total | 100 |
ECTS - Workload Activity | Quantity | Time (Hours) | Total Workload (Hours) |
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Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Mid-terms | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Quiz | 2 | 10 | 20 |
Assignment | 1 | 10 | 10 |
Oral Examination | 2 | 6 | 12 |
Performance Task (Laboratory) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 160 | ||
Total Workload / 25 (Hours) | 6.4 | ||
dersAKTSKredisi | 6 |