UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SOC 100 Introduction to Computer Application Programs
The course provides an introductory experience with software for encoding and processing numeric data, organizing literal information such as notes and bibliographies, making quantitative presentations and writing research reports.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to the basic concepts and principles of sociology. Includes a variety of theoretical perspectives and research findings that represent both the macro and microanalytical traditions in sociology.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 106 Sociological Perspectives
The study of various perspectives germane to a sociological understanding of society.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 108 Sociological Analysis
Analysis of the political, economic and social institutions of society in a comparative and cross-cultural perspective. Emphasis is placed on a historical change and transformation of social structures.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 203 Advanced Computer Application Programs
The course provides advanced level of experience in software for encoding and processing data as well as literal information such as notes and bibliographies, making quantitative representations and writing research reports in the social sciences.
Credits: (2+0+2) 3
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SOC 204 Introduction to Research Methods
An introduction to the methodology and research techniques used in social sciences. The logic of scientific inquiry. Formulation research problems; selection of the appropriate research design. General problems of measurement and data collection techniques.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 209 Introduction to Comparative Historical Sociology
Sociological reading of historical sources and scholarly writing for a comparative study of processes and institutions of historical societies. Use of historical writing as sociological data. Extensive use of sociological concepts and theories informed in particular by works of Marx, Weber and Schumpeter.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 221 Social Change and Development
Examination of the content and context of major theories of social change and development. Evaluation of the relevance of these theories to historical experience in different world regions. Current issues in development.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 224 Urban Sociology
Examines the role of cities in different socio-historical contexts with special emphasis on the organization of contemporary urban life. Includes dualistic models of urban life, settlement dynamics, survival strategies of urban households, and responses to global restructuring. Special emphasis on Turkish urbanization. Alternates with 262.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 227 Sociology of Small Groups
Characteristics of small groups; interrelationships between the individual, the group and the social setting. Interaction processes in small groups and the emergence of group structure. Theories of group dynamics.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 262 Population Studies
Introduction to basic demographic concepts; the relationship between social, cultural and economic factors, and population composition and structure. Population theories and policies. Alternates with 224.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 272 Culture and Society
Study of culture from a sociological and anthropological perspective. Main emphases are on culture and symbol, culture ad social structure, comparative studies of culture, and on the interface between anthropological studies of culture and those of other disciplines.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 281 Social Anthropology
The general aims, methods and findings of modern anthropology. A comparison of diverse cultures and societies, covering such topics as ecology, economy, politics, kinship, religion, and other belief systems and ritual. Special emphasis is placed upon the significance of symbolism and culture.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 282 Peasant Studies
The analysis of various sociological definitions and theories of peasant societies, an overview of the historical conditions for their emergence, the transformation of agricultural production and its social consequences, the role of peasants in nation building, specific forms of peasant politics, peasants and the state, and the position of women in rural society. Alternates with 284 and 286.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 284 Economic Anthropology
An examination of thinking about the meaning, functions, and place of "economic" activities in society, from a comparative perspective. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the economies of pre-capitalist/pre-modern societies, otherwise known as primitive and peasant, and on the transformations taking place in such economies. Alternates with 282 and 286.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 285 Family and Kinship
The study of the meaning and functions of family and kinship in society in a comparative perspective. Special emphasis is placed on understanding changes and continuities in family and kinship over time. Discussions focus on family and kinship groups and structures, systems of alliance and marriage, inheritance, the developmental cycle, and family and kinship in the modern world.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 286 Political Anthropology
An exploration of forms of power, control and authority in different social and cultural settings, with special emphasis on their transformations brought about by processes of social change. Examination of institutional as well as discursive structures through careful analysis of specific case studies. Alternates with 282 and 284.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 287 Language, Culture and Society
This course investigates the relationship between language, culture and society, exploring different anthropological approaches to language with special emphasis on context and change. Topics will include the transmission of culture through language, the interaction of languages in everyday encounters, the ways power and inequality affect language, and issues of language and social change.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 5
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SOC 303 Social Statistics
A two-semester introduction to techniques of summarizing and interpretingsocial science data. Descriptive statistics. Probability theory and probabilitydistributions. Decision theory. Testing statistical hypotheses. Statisticalestimation. Non-parametric statistics. Correlation and regression analysis.Use of a computer package program designed to process social science data.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 304 Data Analysis
Applied quantative research methods with advanced statistical analysis:application of regression, ANOVA, and other similar statistical techniquesto research problems through SPSS or similar programs. Application ofsurvey research or document analysis. Alternates with 306.
Credits: (3+0+2) 3
Prerequisite: SOC 204, SOC 303
SOC 306 Qualitative Research Methods
This course covers the theory and practice of qualitative research methods used in sociology and anthropology. Topics include the philosophical assumptions and paradigms underlying qualitative methodologies, design alternatives and issues, data collection techniques such as interviewing and observation, issues of reliability and validity, data analysis and reporting strategies, and a discussion of ethics in qualitative inquiry. Alternates with 304.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 320 Sociology of Organizations
<div>A social structural approach to the study of organizations emphasizing such issues as the role of technology in determining organizational structure; interrelations between size, complexity and formalization in organizational networks; impact of large scale organizations on the structure of modern societies. </div><div> <br></div>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 324 Power and Inequality
Study of basic concepts, theories, and critical issues in the analysis of structured social inequality. Comparative and historical inquiry into the forms and consequences of stratification, social mobility, and political power.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 340 Economy and Society in Comparative Perspective
<div>Examines how the organization of economic activity varies and is transformed within different social systems. The development of markets, corporate hierarchies, networks, and associations are considered from the perspective of different theoretical traditions. The state's role in organizing and coordinating economic activity is emphasized. </div>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 341 Advanced Industrial Societies
This course covers the social and economic transformation of advanced countries in Western Europe and North America since World War II. Topics will include the impact of the Depression; recovery under American hegemony and social balances of the welfare state; race, immigration and inequality; new social movements; crisis and political change in the 1980s; regionalization, globalization, and nation-states.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 342 Political Sociology
A survey of the field of political sociology, oriented around critical themes in major theoretical traditions and contemporary issues. Special attention to competing perspectives on power, the state, and the relationship of class structure to politics. Questions about political ideology and action are also explored.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 343 State and Society in Comparative Perspective
Surveys theories and research on comparative state formation, on states as actors, and on the effects of state structures on socioeconomic change and pattern of politics. Special emphasis on Ottoman-Turkish state formation in comparative perspective.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 344 Studies in Comparative Historical Sociology
Comparative analytical study of history of societies for the development of new perspectives, theories, hypotheses in macro-sociology. Classical texts as well as contemporary debates on existing historical material to form the bases of discussion.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 345 Politics, Religion and Social Change
The role of religion in the process of social change and the impact of social change on the formal organization of religion and on the nature of religious belief. Comparison of different religious experiences, both mainline and New Age, in terms of their social and political implications.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 353 Globalization of Culture and Communication
An introduction to the trends and issues of the processes of globalization of culture and transcultural communication. Study of a multiplicity of various disciplinary approaches in an attempt to focus on a variety of issues: the political economy of global communication; formation of a "world culture", transition to a post-industrial or post-Fordist mode of production; the transformation of the experience of time and space, and, the creation of new networks of information.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 360 Society and Environment
Interaction between technology, politics, and human and non-human ecological systems. Current ecological issues in contemporary analytical perspective.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 368 Understanding Health and Healing
Health and healing from a social and cultural perspective: concepts and representations of health and illness over time, models of causation, lived experience of illness, therapeutic encounters, medical systems, medicalization of life, and globalization of medicine. Special attention given to how biomedical knowledge and practice are culturally constructed and institutionally structured.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 370 History of Social and Political Thought
Development of social thought, its philosophical foundations and some issues of moral philosophy from the Classical period to the Enlightenment and the l9th century and its investigation through the critical examination of original texts by principal thinkers like Plato, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 371 History of Sociological Theory
An in-depth analytical study of the principal paradigms that set the groundwork for modern sociology through the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 373 Issues in Sociological Theory
An in-depth study of sociological theory: an evaluation of some of the major theories in sociology in terms of their assumptions, theoretical rigor, and political implications.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 375 Sociology of Law
Law as a social institution, comparative and historical study of its changing normativity, the evolution of its practice, and its interaction with other social processes and institutions.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 377 Comparative Sociology of Religions
Religion as a socio-historical project: examination of the major texts and the commentaries on Judaism, Christianity and Islam regarding the questions of individual responsibility, moral community, political power, and the ideals of social order.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 379 History of Sociological Conceptualization
Review of the origins and development of key concepts and major theoretical perspectives in sociology from the classical theorists to contemporary statements.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 380 History of Anthropological Thought
The examination of the philosophical texts and the issues in the philosophical tradition that are the groundwork for the attempt to scientifically analyze and classify cultures. Delienation of the growth of the discipline in Britain, America and France by examining the intellectual traditions that led to the differing concerns of the anthropologists.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 387 Urban Anthropology
A comparative examination of the culture and social organization of cities and the regions centered on and controlled by them. Topics include: the processes of city growth and change, the nature of urbanism, pre-industrial cities, contemporary cities, with special emphasis on non-western cities.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 425 The City
Comparative sociology of city formation and urban societies in historical perspective. Special emphasis on theoretical conceptualization in diverse contexts.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 430 Sociological Thought in Turkey
A survey of sociological thinking in Turkey: Major figures and texts; dominant theoretical orientations; selected topics and problems; major premises, aspirations, and politics in the development of sociological thought in Turkey.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 435 Contemporary Issues in Turkey
Sociological analysis of current issues related to social and cultural change in Turkey, and their relationship to world-wide phenomena. Particular emphasis on developing research interest.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 441 Seminar on Historical Sociology
<div>Examines the logic and methodological assumptions of historical sociology. Substantive paradigms of comparative and historical analysis are illustrated through representative major works. </div>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 442 Economy ad Society in the Late Twentieth Century
Comparative analysis of politically organized aspects of the economies in the post-World War II period and their class structures; their development trajectories; crisis of the welfare states; neo-liberalism and the modes of adaptation to the new world-economic environment amongst the industrializing societies.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 443 Class and State in the Middle East
Social structures and political processes in the Middle East. Study of the origins of social ad economic underdevelopment in the Middle East from a historical perspective and examination of current problems related to political regimes through a selective study of the social and political structure of the region.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 451 Identity and Culture
Sociological approaches to the formation and transformation of collective identities with special emphasis on the role of the modern nation-state, impact of international migration, and mass media and new forms of cultural expression and politicization of identities. Ethnic, racial and religious minorities and their relations with dominant cultures; increasing salience of identity politics and popular cultures.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 452 Seminar on Social Movements
The study of the formation of new cultural models through the interplay of social conflicts. The focus will be upon the emergence of new relations of domination, and new forms of power.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 453 Communication and Media Studies
New forms of communication will be discussed in the context of contemporary societies. The effects of an "information society" on modes of communication and on the categories of public and private spheres will be analyzed.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 455 Post-Industrial/Post-Modern Debate
New forms of communication will be discussed in the context of contemporary societies. The effects of an "information society" on modes of communication and on the categories of public and private spheres will be analyzed.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 458 Contemporary Media Studies
Comparative analysis of media in different cultures within a process of globalization. The examination of various issues regarding television and radio broadcasting, and new digital media, such as internet, in relation to political economy, the public domain, forms of popular culture, narrative structures, and ethnography of audiences.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 462 Sociology of Gender
<div>An inquiry into the relation between gender and social structure and practice. Examines the position of women in society, their accession to the economic and political spheres and the history of women's movements in different societies. Topics included are: women in the family and the home, the construction of gender identities, the meanings attached to masculinity and femininity, and the contextuality of gender differences. Critically reviews sociological categories and introduces concepts that can take into account the gendered nature of social reality. </div><strong></strong>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 465 Selected Topics in Demography
Studies the social causes and consequences of demographic processes. Family and social structure, fertility, mortality, and migration. Policies that are affected by demographic processes.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 468 Migration Studies
Causes and consequences of transnational migration. Economic and culturalglobalization, social, cultural and political citizenship, demographicforces in international migration, migration and global cities, transnationalidentity, forced migration, labor migration, circular migration, undocumentedmigration and trafficking. The effects of state policies upon migrantsin both countries of emigration and immigration.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 471 Advanced Issues in Social Theory
Principal questions of epistemology and methodology in the social sciences. An overview of selected controversies in sociological theory both in terms of their historical antecedents and theory construction. An examination of various theoretical perspectives, the positivism-antipositivism debate, empiricism, historicism and positive science, the limits of sociological inquiry and the limits of theory, interpretive sociology, objectivism, the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 472 Contemporary Social Theories
<div>This course will review in a comparative perspective the recent theoretical and substantive developments in the discipline of sociology. It will focus on the relation between contemporary research and theory.</div>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 478 Social Memory
The role of social memory in contemporary society. Exploration of varioussites, dynamics and politics of individual and collective accounts ofremembering/forgetting the past in the present. The study of social memorywithin particular historical, political and social settings, especiallyin connection to power relations. Theories of social memory as well asthe particular forms and sites of memory such as autobiography, testimony,monuments, everyday life, national and post-national memories, and politicsof memory in different contexts.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 479 Sociology of Citizenship and Human Rights
An attempt to historicize and contextualize two notions that have been central in Western political thought: citizenship and human rights. The historical conditions of the emergence and transformation of notions and practices of citizenship and human rights, theoretical accounts and critiques from various political and theoretical positions.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 480, 481 Issues in Contemporary Anthropology I, II
An examination of major issues of current concern in the discipline of social-cultural anthropology. Meant to acquaint students with new thinking at the frontiers of the field. Topics selected will vary from year to year depending upon directions in the disciplines at the time of offering.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 482 Sociology of Religion
This course will focus on sociological and anthropological theories of religion, and on selected religious institutions in a comparative/historical framework. Some of the topics covered will include a discussion of ethnographic and theoretical issues in religion and society raised by Durkheim, Weber's theses on charisma, sect, dogma and religious organization, economic and political dimensions of religious institutionalization.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 485, 486 Regional Studies I, II
<div>This course analyzes the societies and cultures of major world socio-cultural regions from sociological and/or anthropological perspectives. One region is to be selected for discussion each time the course is offered. Primary focus is on common regional social structures and cultures, on divergent social and cultural institutions, on processes producing them. </div>
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 490, 496, 497, 498, 499 Directed Research and Readings I, II, III, IV, V
Faculty members will assign reading and research tasks to students on selected topics and supervise their progress. The scope and duration of the studies will be specified at the beginning of the semester.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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SOC 491, 492, 493, 494, 495 Specialization Seminar I, II, III, IV, V
Advanced topics in social analysis.
Credits: (3+0+0) 3
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GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SOC 501 Advanced Research Methods I
A general survey of social science research techniques. Experimental and non-experimental research designs.Measurement theory, reliablity and validity. Sampling theory and designs. Overview of statistical evaluation procedures. Panel designs.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 502 Advanced Research Methods II
Data collection techniques. Scaling procedures. Multivariate analysis techniques including multiple correlation and regression, multiple classification analysis, factor analysis and related procedures. Complex experimental designs. The writing of research reports.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 503 Sociological Theory I: History of Sociological Theory
The course reviews the origins and the development of some of the principal concepts which constitute the elements of modern sociology. For that purpose the works of major theorists are studied from the point of view of emergence of sociological perspective.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 504 Sociological Theory II:Contemporary Sociological Theory
The course critically focuses on some of the contemporary perspectives in sociology and evaluates the according to their assumptions, internal consistency, theoretical rigor, and political consequences. This is mainly a survey course in contemporary sociological theory.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 523 Political Sociology
This course reviews the theoretical developments in the field of political sociology since the 19th century. The discussion of these various theoretical developments will be related to the continuity and change in social institutions and political processes.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 524 Historical Sociology
This course attempts to develop a sociologically structured theory and method for the study of historical change and stability. It will focus on the issues relating to the history of the state, political revolutions, and economic and legal institutions.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 531 Ideas and Intellectuals in Society
The course aims at studying the role of intellectuals, ideas and, certain social institutions in the change and stability of societies. A historical and comparative perspective will inform the discussion of the interaction between the activity of intellectuals and social structural processes.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 535 Turkish Society : Research and Theory
Survey of Theory and research concerning contemporary Turkish society with special emphasis on social and cultural change.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 541 Social Change and Development
A review of the basic theoretical approaches to social change. Classical and neo-evolutionary theories, conflict theory and modernization. The measurement of change. Recent attempts to operationalize and measure national development. Empirical works on the relationship among various dimensions of development. Emprical works on the relationship among various dimensions of development. Cross-sectional and time-series models. Development and the world system.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 553 Popular culture, Mass Media and Political Representation
New forms of group identification and collective action in relation to forms and practices of popular (especially visual) representation. Examination of distinctions between popular versus mass versus high cultures; mass media and the politics of representation, of subject with different cultural affiliations.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 563, 564 Issues in Contemporary Society I, II
Focuses on major issues confronting contemporary society. The emphasis is upon future direction of socio-economic and cultural change in advanced industrial societies and their implications for developing countries.
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SOC 579 Graduate Seminer
The widening of students" persepectives and awareness of topics of interest to sociologists through seminars offered by faculty, guest speakers and graduate students.
Credits: (0+1+0) 1 Non-credit
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SOC 581, 584 Selected Topics in Advanced Sociological Theory
<div>This is an advanced course in social theory which studies in-depth one or several issues and perspectives surveyed in Sociology 504. It involves careful and intensive reading and analysis in one of the areas in contemporary sociological theory, and the critical evaluation of debates in that area. </div>
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 585-588 Directed Readings and Research I, II, III, IV, V
Faculty members can give reading and research assignments to students on various topics and supervise the progress of these projects. The circumstances where such projects are warranted are to be determined by the faculty members. The scope and duration of the reading and research project is to be indicated at the beginning of the semester.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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SOC 589 Reading in Sociology
Supervised reading in areas of interest to the students.
Credits: (1+0+0) 1
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SOC 595-599 Special Topics in Sociology/Anthropology I, II, III, IV, V
Study of the latest and current developments in the field of sociology and anthropology.
Credits: (4+0+0) 4
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