SOC 502 Media and Politics |
3 Credits |
This is a seminar course designed to explore three aspects
of media/politics in particular: (1) transnational/
national news agencies and media organizations in the era of
digital, cable and satellite communication (2) critical
debates on issues such as bias and objectivity in political
reporting, tabloid news, political scandal, investigative
journalism (3) intersections between media power and
national politics, including such themes as 'agenda
'spin control', 'the spiral of silence' or 'political
advertising'.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2015-2016 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 503 Social Studies of Constitutions and Constitutionalism |
3 Credits |
In recent years, constitutionalism as a mode of political
action undertaken by courts and other political entities
has become key to efforts of political reconstruction. In
both South Africa and Eastern Europe, for example,
constitutionalism has become the modus operandi of setting
the framework of new political orders, for coming to
terms with a troublesome past, and for gaining
political legitimacy vis-à-vis global or regional
trans-national institutions. At the same time,
constitutions today, as in the past, remain a crucial site
for contesting and negotiating the boundaries of the
legitimate order and work as a juridico-political
context for affirming and enacting deeply rooted
imaginations of a nation's past, present and future.
Constitutional courts, as well as other constitutional
bodies emerge as major players in these contestations.
We will examine these processes through the specific
examples of the European Union, Hungary and South Africa.
In particular the historical, political, social and
economic dynamics at work in these contexts
concentrating on the making of constitutions, the operation
of constitutional bodies and the entangled notions
of constitutionalism is discussed.
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ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 504 Media Research Workshop |
3 Credits |
The main aim of this workshop will be to provide
hands-on experience in media research
techniques. Students will be expected to work
on individual projects and/or joint projects
learning to apply various techniques
such as ''frame analysis'',; ''narrative analysis'';
''focus group analysis''.
The reading materials for the course
will include examples from existing
media research with different kinds of materials
(visual, written, digital) as well as
conventional ''methodology'' articles.
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 508 Religion and Politics |
3 Credits |
This course examines the interaction of religious
and political authorities, discourses, and institutions
through historical, comparative, and normative perspectives.
We will start our discussion with a
survey of the role of religion in the formation of modern
political institutions and identities, including the
modern state, long-distance and national social
movements, welfare regimes, and national identities.
We will then investigate various aspects of religious
politics, focusing in particular on religious movements and
violence, the rise and transformation of religious
parties, secularism as political ideology and movement
and the relationship between religious politics and
democracy. The course will
conclude with a review of recent debates in political
theory on the legitimate place of religion in
public life and in the political sphere. In the
course of the semester, we will discuss empirical
cases drawn from Europe, the U.S., the Middle
East, and Southeast Asia.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
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Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 513 Turkish Social Thought |
3 Credits |
The course will deal with the basic
social and political ideas developed in the early and late
republican period in Turkey. in the first part a special
emphasis will be given to the formation of the social
thought via the constitution of the notion of law and
society within the framework of the 'essential' conflictual
concepts, such as east-west, modernity-conservatism.
In the second part basic schools of thought (like blue
Anatolia) and the ideas and arguments of the prominent
thinkers and intellectuals will be analyzsed. in this regard
new understanding of the social and the political will be
dissected with special reference to such debates as,
modernity, postmodernity, secularism, political Islam,
Europe, globalisation. An extensive review of Turkish
literature in this context is imperative.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 518 Qualitative Research Methods |
3 Credits |
This course is designed towards those who are new to
qualitative inquiry. It will provide an overview of the
theoretical foundations, primary methods of data collection
and analysis. With the required student fieldwork projects,
carried out concurrently with classroom lectures and
discussions, the class aims to balance information
acquisition and application of specific skills needed
to conduct quality research.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2009-2010 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 520 Sociology of Mobilities |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the study of current
mobilities of everything (people, ideas, goods, capital,
and images), the social, cultural and political aspects
of the infrastructure and workings of mobility places
and systems, and the historical formation of the
mobility of as an inseparable feature of civilization,
modernity and globalization. Topics to be
covered include Mobilities Theory; cities as interfaces
and spaces of travel and tourism; inequalities
across (im)mobilities; historical development of
transportation systems; global structures of mobilities;
airports, railways, and container ports; mutual
constitution of transportation, travel and tourism;
social, cultural and economic impacts of transportation
systems and hubs over place-making and social relations.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Sociology of Mobilities |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 521 Urban Sociology |
3 Credits |
Social implications of urban life with respect to such
topics as patterns of city growth; urban
social organization (family, neighbourhood, community);
urban social issues (housing, crime); urban
policy and urban planning (sociology of planning,
citizen participation)
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 525 Power, Economy, and Society |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the study of the
meaning, functions, and place of economic activities in
society from a comparative perspective. Topics to be
covered include globalization, capitalism and
neoliberalism; work and labor regimes; governmentality;
cultures of consumption; space and value;
deindustrialization and class; and cultural economy
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Power, Economy, and Society |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Power, Economy, and Society |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 526 Gender and Work |
3 Credits |
This course examines how the organization and
practices of labor, work, and workplace is gendered
through a historical and comparative socio-cultural
lens. Subjects to be examined include the constitutive
relation between gender identity, class position and
labor force participation; work and gender dynamics
within different sectors in contemporary planetary
economy; the state’s involvement with gender, family
and work; and women’s and men’s experiences of
work hierarchies.
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 532 Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 Credits |
Who are we?? Every social group tries to answer this
question, albeit with significant variation
across cultures and throughout history. All
social groups also try to define and enact
rules about the sexual activities of their members.
Sociological and anthropological literature
shows that the ways in which social groups
define their rules about sexuality relate
to the ways in which they define
boundaries and maintain spaces for themselves.
In this course we are going to survey existing
theoretical discussions and research about this
problematic. Specific themes for discussion
will vary, but are likely to include such issues as
homosexuality, honor crimes and the headscarf
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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