DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT in 2005-2006

Description of Undergraduate Courses
Description of Graduate Courses

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

SOC 100: Principles of Sociology (3-0)-3 An Introduction to basic principles, concepts and theories of sociology; analysis of social structure and cultural patterns, methodology of research in social sciences. The course seeks to make sociology come alive as a vital and exciting field, to relate principles to real-world circumstances, and to attune students to the dynamic processes of our rapidly changing contemporary society (only open to the students of the Faculty of Engineering).

SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology I (4-0)-4 An introduction to basic principles, concepts and theories of sociology; the logic and method of sociological inquiry; analysis of social structure; culture; the relationship of the individual to society; social stratification; different forms of social inequalities. Taught from a comparative perspective drawing examples from Turkey and other developing and developed countries.

SOC 102: Introduction to Sociology II (4-0)-4 An introduction to the analysis of key social institutions and key changes; organizations, state and politics, education, urbanization, population growth, social movements, and globalization. Taught from a comparative perspective drawing examples from Turkey and different parts of the world.

SOC 103: Introduction to Anthropology (3-0)-3 Biological structure of humans and its relationship to group life. Evolution of humankind and culture. Relationship between the human species, nature and tools. Emphasis on culture and social organization of technologically primitive societies. Note: Offered only to students of the Department of City and Regional Planning.

SOC 104: Introduction to Sociology (3-0)-3 An introduction to basic principles, concepts and theories of sociology; analysis of social structure, cultural processes and patterns; the relationship of the individual to society. Emphasis on case studies. Note: Offered only to students of the Department of City and Regional Planning.

SOC 109: Introduction to Sociology (3-0)-3 An introduction to basic principles, concepts and theories of sociology; analysis of social structure, cultural processes and patterns; the relationship of the individual to society. Emphasis on case studies. Note: Offered only to students of the Department of Psychology.

SOC 131: Introduction to Anthropology I (4-0)-4 Biological structure and its relationship to group life in human and non-human primates. Biologic and cultural evolution of the human species. Relationship between the human species, nature and technology, and between environment, modes of subsistence and social organization. The structure of human language.

SOC 132: Introduction to Anthropology II (3-0)-3 The study of humans in different cultural contexts. Theories of culture and social structure. An examination of major human institutions (kinship, economic, political and religious) in cross-cultural perspective. Emphasis on technologically primitive societies.

SOC 134: Social Anthropology (3-0)-3 The study of human beings in different cultural contexts. Theories of culture and social structure. An examination of major human institutions (kinship, economic, political and religious) in cross-cultural perspective.

SOC 203: Urban Sociology (4-0)-4 A comparative study of urban societies and institutions. The origins and the evolution of towns in Western Europe and in the East. Medieval, early modern industrial and post-modern cities. Major theoretical approaches in Urban Sociology. Recent urban trends and processes: suburbanization, gentrification and globalization.

SOC 204: Rural Sociology (4-0)-4 Rural social structure, changing social relations in rural societies. Peasants in market economy and development; types of peasant production; patterns of labor utilization; modernization of agriculture and state policies; peasantry in relation to world economy.

SOC 206: The Anthropology of Kinship Organization (3-0)-3 A cross-cultural comparison of kinship systems. Basic forms of descent and their relationship to residence, marriage, family forms and kinship terminologies. The relationship of kinship and family structure to ecological conditions, technology and economic and political structures.

SOC 114-213: Statistical Methods and Computer Applications in Social Science I-II (4-0)-4 Purposes and limitations of statistics; theory and operational definitions, level of measurement; descriptive statistics, probability and combinations, independence and random sampling; inductive statistics, steps in testing and hypotheses, inferential statistical procedures such as analysis of variance, correlation and regression; multiple regression and partial correlation.

SOC 218: Social Class, Stratification and Mobility (4-0)-4 Inequality, stratification and mobility in relation to social position. Types and dimensions of social inequality. Theories of social stratification. Different types of social strata; class, caste, estate, status, power elite. The underprivileged and the lower strata. Relations among social classes. Bases and mechanisms of social status, individual, group and stratum mobility.

SOC 232: Methodology of Social Science (4-0)-4 The concept of "scientific knowledge" as distinct from other forms of knowledge in society. Philosophy and science. A comparison of the natural and social sciences in terms of their subject matter, approaches to reality and their methods. A survey of the philosophy and methodology of social sciences. A discussion of the nature of theories and models in social sciences. The relation between theory and empirical research in the social sciences.

SOC 234: Economic Anthropology (3-0)-3 Economics and social organization in pre-industrial societies. Understanding 'the economic' in non-market societies and its position within the broader social context. Discussion of major theories dealing with non-industrial forms of production, circulation and consumption. Theories of change and development.

SOC 251: History of Sociology I (4-0)-4 The overall aim of this course is to examine the emergence of sociological imagination. Accordingly, topics such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, rationalism and empiricism, the theory of natural law, the Enlightenment and the conservative critique of the Enlightenment will be examined. The course will also cover the contributions of the founding figures of the discipline of sociology. The works of Vico, Montesquieu, S. Simon and Comte will be examined in order to understand the 'invention' of sociology as a science of society.

SOC 252: History of Sociology II (4-0)-4 The principal aim of this course is to study the development of the discipline of sociology in late 1800s and early 1900s. The works of the founding fathers of the discipline, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, and Pareto will be examined in order to display the different paths of development in the discipline. Positivism, historicism and realism will be discusses in order to understand major metatheoretical standpoints in the social sciences.

SOC 303: Sociology of Change and Transition (3-0)-3 Transitions to modern industrial-urban world. The first transition: England. The French transition. Revolutions from below and above. Other transitions to modern industrial urban world. Transformations in institutions, political, social and cultural structures in late capitalism. Issues in development and underdevelopment in second, third and fourth worlds.

SOC 305: Sociology of Family (4-0)-4 The family as a social institution; the structure and types of family; the functions (economic, social and reproductive) of the family; changing role of the family and social change; sexual division of labor within family; domestic labor; reproduction; patriarchy; child labor; kinship.

SOC 306: Economic Sociology (3-0)-3 The sociology of economic life. Competing perspectives in the field of economic sociology. The comparative and historical study of the world economy. Capital, capitalists, and capitalism. The changing forms of production and exchange. The international division of labor. Economic cycles and trends. Hegemonic transitions. Cities and the world economy. Hierarchies and networks in the organization of business enterprise.

SOC 307: Issues in State and Social Policy (3-0)-3 State and welfare systems. The fundamental issues and current trends in the light of comparative and alternative approaches to politics and economy of the welfare state. Specific emphasis on the development of state and social policy in Turkey

SOC 308: Urbanization in Developing Countries (3-0)-3 The study of various processes and structures involved in the rapid growth of cities in developing countries: migration, the problem of housing, work and employment, capital accumulation, social networks and local politics.

SOC 309: Sociology of Religion I (3-0)-3 Religion and culture in a world-wide perspective. Different approaches to the definition of religion. Patterns of differentiation of religion in relation to society. The role of religion in the modernization process, and the effects of modernization on religion. Organizational structures and patterns of institutionalization in religion. Religion and social stratification.

SOC 310: Sociology of Religion II (3-0)-3 Religion and society in different parts of the world with special focus on the Middle East. Studies in comparative religion with special reference to Max Weber's sociology of religion.

SOC 312: Political Sociology (3-0)-3 The course draws together the perspectives of two disciplines, politics and sociology in an attempt to understand political structures and processes. Theoretical approaches as well as historical and empirical studies are considered. Subjects of particular interest are: political culture, political socialization, participation; the origins and growth of the modern state; legitimacy, individualism, liberalism; concept of citizenship, globalization and discussions on nation-state and citizenship; welfare state.

SOC 313: Data Processing I (3-0)-3 The purpose of this course is to teach students how to process a given set of information both mechanically and sociologically. Students will learn how to transform information into a machine-readable form, and how to use computer package programs such as SPSS, BMDP OR SAS. Having acquainted themselves with these skills, students are expected to make inferences about data. To learn how to make data 'speak' is the major objective of this course.

SOC 314: Work and Organization (4-0)-4 Understanding the development of industrial societies, different industrialization strategies and their political, social implications. Historical aspects of work and work ethic, from ancient times to the present; Tylorism, Human Relations, Neo-Human Relations School, theories of production systems (Blauner and Woodward); labour processes debate. De-skilling and anti-Braverman debate; labour market segmentation; informal forms of work; women's work; trade unions and industrial conflict; transformation of work in post-industrial society; post-fordism.

SOC 315: Sociology of Mass Communication (4-0)-4 An examination of mass communication theories. Discussion on the mass media of communication and their role as social institutions; content, audience and the effect of the mass media. The functions of communications media in the formation of public opinion, cultural values and social control. Analysis of examples from both early studies and current research.

SOC 316: Cultural Analysis of Media Texts (3-0)-3 Critical discussion of different approaches to the 'content' of mass media messages. Methods and techniques involved in the analysis of content. Assessment of classical and current examplary research with regard to their theoretical efficacy and practical usages.

SOC 317: History of Sociology III (3-0)-3 The study of competing schools with divergent interensts and perspectives; mathematical sociology, early functionalism, sociometry, philosophical sociology, sociology of knowledge, neopositivism, systematic sociology. Critical examination of a wide range of scholars and their works such as Lundserg, Cooley, McIver, Gurvitch, Sorokin, Ogburn, Mannheim, Moreno. Particular emphasis is laid on early social anthropologists such as Malinowski, Radcliffe Brown and E. Pritchard.

SOC 318: History of Sociology IV (3-0)-3 The growing significance of phenomenology in sociology; Husserl's philosophy and the subjectivism of Schutz. Recent conceptualizations of social conflict. Parson's and Merton's functionalism. Perspectives and methodological principles of positivism and empirical sociology (A. Gouldner).

SOC 319: Legitimacy and Social Order (3-0)-3 Power, social control and the problem of legitimation. The notion of social contract. Legitimation and the role of religion: theocracy, hierarchy and 'caesaropapism'. Relations between social class and ideology in historical societies. The advent of modern society: secularization, legitimation by performance and efficiency. Lack of legitimacy and the emergence of social movements.

SOC 320: Social Movements (3-0)-3 The critical analysis of social movements and collective actions which can be seen as crucial in the articulation of popular demands questioning established social orders. Currently dominant perspectives in the analysis of social movements and collective actions, collective behaviour; resource mobilization; political process; and new social movements. Feminist, environmental, anti-nuclear, peace movement, anti-globalization movements. A special focus is placed on contemporary racism and ethnicity in Europe.

SOC 321: Political Anthropology (3-0)-3 Basic principles of social differentiation and hierarchy. Forms of political power in simple societies: gerontocracy, big-man systems, chiefdoms. The role of war. The emergence of state societies and the political systems of pre-modern empires. Changes induced by the ascent of the principle of popular sovereignty and nationalism. Political ecology: center and periphery. Anthropological aspects of political values and behavior in contemporary societies.

SOC 323: Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research (4-0)-4 Theory and research in sociology. Theoretical statements and hypotheses. Fundamentals of sampling in social research. Scaling techniques. Techniques of social research. Quasi-experiments, observation (documentary, participant, etc.), interviews (formal and informal), mail questionnaires. Questionnaire design. Ethical questions in social research. Techniques of data analysis and interpretation of findings.

SOC 324: Field Methods (3-0)-3 'Soft' techniques of data collection, observation, unobstructive measures, structured and unstructured interviews and depth interviewing. The aim is to teach the students the specialized skills necessary for the application of these techniques.

SOC 325: Human Ecology (3-0)-3 This course deals basically with the relationship of wo/man to/in nature or society to/in nature. Contemporary ecological debates in social sciences are explored by firstly giving an overview of the historical roots of environmentalism and then focusing on different approaches like: sustainability and neo-Malthusianism, risk society, eco-socialism, ecofeminism, deep ecology and land ethics, eco-anarchism and social ecology.

SOC 326: Medical Sociology (3-0)-3 Deconstruction of medicine as the basic reference of ethics in the modern/postmodern era --as manifested, popularized and also guarded mainly by the advertisements on a societal un(der) conscious level. Body perception and the role of medicine in shaping it. Metaphoric uses of illnesses. Medicalization and social control. The transition from sin to sickness. Medicine and Faucauldian 'gaze'. Critique of postmodern conjucture: 'Health without body, intelligence without mind'.

SOC 329: Women's Studies in Turkey (3-0)-3 The objective of the course is to present a comprehensive overvies of the key themese and issues taken by recent studies on women in Turkey. The research findings provide a rich multidisciplinary background for newcomers to the field. The major subject areas in relation to women's status are family, work, politics, state, law, religion, education, history, health, sexuality, art, media, and popular culture.

SOC 341: Contemporary Sociological Theory (4-0)-4 Examines the major approaches in contemporary social and critical theory. It covers approaches such as semiology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derria, Luce Irigaray, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said.

SOC 345-346: Social Thought on the History and Economy of Turkey I-II (3-0)-3 The analysis of the historical aspects of the development of social thought in Turkey; its Ottoman origins and background; the evolution of social thought in Republican Turkey.

SOC 349: Theory in Urban Sociology (3-0)-3 Critical review of major theoretical approaches in urban sociology and current trends in urban theory.

SOC 354: Sociology of Law (3-0)-3 Towards an understanding of the social bases and meanings of law; passage from everyday social practices to more or less formulated rules of conduct, ethos (customs, traditions, established patterns of behaviour, habits), ethics and religion as ordering social practices to nomos and hence the law. Co-existence of the self and the other in an ordered world. Self-preservation of the self via security, delegation of power, obedience and establishment of the authority as well as social control. Connection between the law and the central body politic as the ultimate ordering of the social. The process of criminalization and punishment. The historical-social meanings of justice and their relatioh to ethics and statute law. Special focus on the Turkic, Ottoman, and Turkish contemporary Turkish Republican contexts.

SOC 361-362: Historical Sociology I-II (3-0)-3 The German and French intellectual traditions of historical sociology. German historical sociology as a reaction to French and Anlgo-Saxon positivism during the last decades of the 19th century. Similarities in long-term historical perspectives. Case studies from European as well as Middle Eastern history.

SOC 363: Demography/Population Dynamics (3-0)-3 The study of the measurement of the size, composition and changes in the numbers of people and the related functions of fertility, mortality and migration. Firstly, the basic sources and measures of demography (i.e., rates and ratios of fertility, mortality, migration, population estimation/projections, life table, etc.) are introduced. A special focus is given to the theories and policies of population control (i.e., fertility control, family planning and migration policies) and the role of social sciences in demographic analyses.

SOC 381: Structure and Change in Ottoman Society (3-0)-3 The Ottoman socio-economic system as a historical social formation. The evolution of inherited elements from pre-Ottoman socio-economic structures. Town and country contradiction in Ottoman society. Economic structure, state and bureaucracy, commodity production and trade, the land regime, and stratification. Ideology of statecraft in the Ottoman Empire. Evolution of Ottoman society vis-a-vis the structural changes in Europe. Social conflict in Ottoman society.

SOC 382: Sociology of the Turkish Transformation (3-0)-3 The structural transformation of late Ottoman society within the context of the new global economic and political order; the Western challenge and the response of the Ottoman state; new social forces within late Ottoman society; and 'Jeune Turc' ideology and its roots. Following this framework, the process of nation-state building in Turkey is discusses with reference to various forms of resistance movements and formal political opposition experienced between the years of 1919 and the early 1940s. The ideology of nationalism and nation building is emphasized.

SOC 384: Sociology of Development (3-0)-3 The developing countries in the world economic system. Relations with developed countries regions in history and at present; the impact of underdevelopment on social, political and economic structures.

SOC 385: Sociology of the Body (3-0)-3 Lacanian construction of the subject as a social product. Passage from biological creature to cultural subject as sexualized beings. Self, body and ethics. Socio-historical filters through which we perceive our bodies and bodily reality. Deconstruction of the main references (from religion to fashion; from sexuality to death) that surround, shape and control our bodies. Critique of the now prevalent discourse of the performing self.

SOC 388: Representing the Study of 'Other' Through Ethnography (3-0)-3 Classic and recent ethnographies. Ethnographic writing, problems of representing 'the Other', and recent experimental approaches in ethnographic presentation.

SOC 390: Methodology and Analysis in Sociology (3-0)-3 Main discussions in philosophy of science and their reflections to the analysis in sociology. The meainings of methodology: Positivist, interpretative and critical social sciences, feminist and post-modern research. Planning and preparing qualitative and quantitative research designs, measurement and sampling. Survey research and secondary data analysis. Field research (participant observation and interview techniques), historical and comparative analysis, and life history analysis. Social research and communication with others --literature review and research report writing processes. The ethics and politics of social research.

SOC 400: Seminar-Workshop in Special Fields of Sociology (3-0)-3 This course is organized in the form of a research workshop, and the content of the course is determined by the instructor.

SOC 401-402: Special Project in Sociology and Social Anthropology I-II (3-0)-3 This course offers students in their final year the opportunity to carry out a sociological study of their own interest. Students may pursue a course of reading on a particular topic or undertake an empirical research project.

SOC 403: Social Problems in Turkey (3-0)-3 The structural characteristics of Turkish society. Social, cultural and economic bases of Turkey's social problems. Social problems in terms of the relations between individual and society. Transformation of social problems in time and space. Different approaches to social problems and solutions.

SOC 404: Gender and Social Space (3-0)-3 Gender as a basic principle of organizing society. The social construction of gender. Biology and ideology, 'nature versus culture' debate. Production and reproduction of social space and society. The role of sexual division of labor. Sex segregation in cross-cultural perspective.

SOC 405: Industrial Sociology (3-0)-3 The Industrial Revolution and the industrialization of the world. The emergence of the factory system and the disciplining of labor. Fordist, Fascist, and Stalinist models of industrial organization. The newly industrializing countries. The Information Technology Revolution and the informalization of the world. The transformation of work and employment. The emergence of the network society. Globalization, business networks, and the information age.

SOC 408: Population Movements in a Globalizing World (3-0)-3 This course aims to answer the following question: How does global restructuring affect the movements of people across space? Five types of interrelated categories of population movements are identified: 1. population displacements due to increased conflict and civil strife as well as natural disasters; 2. illegal forms of international migrant labour arrangements including trafficking in women; 3. reverse and return migration from north to south and urban to rural; 4. shuttle between two or more worlds with strong links in all; 5. 'rented' temporary free-floating migrant labour.

SOC 410: Advanced Sociological Methods (3-0)-3 Present socio-cultural structure of Turkey as well as its process of transformation. Constitution of basic identities and their reproduction in their reciprocal (usually confrontational) relationships. A hi-story of the Ottoman Emprire beginning from the 16th century onwards, dissolution of it, foundation of the Republic and the developments afterwards.

SOC 415: Social Reproduction (3-0)-3 The societal mechanisms of regulation, procreation, development and maintenance of the human factor. Reproduction of labor. Family, health, education and housing as components of the system of social reproduction. The role of the state and the family in the reproduction of labor.

SOC 416: Women in Economy and Society (3-0)-3 Exploration of male bias in sociological and anthropological theory and practice. Critical evolution of assumptions with respect to women's role and participation in social and economic production. Differential participation of women in national development. Analysis of femininity and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective.

SOC 417: Understanding Other Cultures (3-0)-3 The course probes such social and cultural questions as "Are there different kinds of rationality?", "Does language limit and control thought?", "What kind of difficulties arise when we attempt to translate from one language, or culture, into another?, "Are there universal moral principles?", "Is it possible to compare different cultures?" Basic concepts such as self, reason and sanity, money and wealth, religious beliefs, and health will be subjected to critique.

SOC 421-422: Turkish Sociologists I-II (3-0)-3 The course aims a detailed analysis of the development of the discipline of sociology in Turkey from the early contributions to the field to the present state of theory and research.

SOC 427: Social Analysis of Race, Ethnicity and Society (3-0)-3 This course reviews the literature on theories of nationalism, nation-building, state-formation, and ethnicity mapping out the major debates and approaches within the literature. The central concepts and current trends in the literature which imply a necessary link between the process of modernization/industrialization and nation-state building and nationalism are criticall reviewed. It also examines social and ethnic relations as part of larger social systems by emphasizing the relationship of ethnicity to nations, state, class, minority groups, gender, power and politics.

SOC 429: The Anthropology of the Turkic Peoples of Inner and Central Asia (3-0)-3 A survey of the social organization and culture of the Turkic peoples from their first appearance in historical records to the modern era. The course will emphasize the Hsiung-nu, Göktürk, Uygur and other early Turkic states, but discussions will include historical migrations, current distribution and cultural continuities.

SOC 430: Sociology of Mediterranean Societies (3-0)-3 The Mediterranean in historical and cultural perspective. Economy and ecology. The role of the state in Mediterranean societies. Kinship systems and the importance of the family. Patron-client relationships. The 'honor-and-shame' complex. Gender roles in the Mediterranean area. Religion and folk beliefs.

SOC 434: Corporate and Organized Crimes (3-0)-3 Patterns of deviance and crime. Theories in social deviance and crime, such as anomie, subculture, differential association and labeling approaches. Status frustration and adaptation to strain, deviance and conflict; the structure and process of deviance. Social reaction to deviant behavior and labeling outsiders. Deviance and identity, the defensive deviant act. Subculture groups. Types of crime, homicide, rape, robbery, burglary, etc.

SOC 435: Conventional Crimes (3-0)-3 Organized criminal groups, white collar crimes. Functions and structure of the police; relations between the police and community. Do we need the police in a democratic society? The problem of controlling policing.

SOC 437-438: Sociology of Fine Arts and Music I-II (3-0)-3 Social, cultural and ideological dimensions of art from earliest beginnings. Work-character of the 'work of art'. Art as gateway to truth. Commodification of artworks. Art now: just another sphere of commodity and information flow or a privileged field of emancipatory forces? Is art dead, given today's social, economic and technological matrix? Artwork as simulacrum and dissimulation. Subjectivity as the constituent dimension of aesthetic experience in techno-scientific age.

SOC 440: Sociology of Knowledge (3-0)-3 A description of structural analysis of the ways in which social structures and relationships influence the products of consciousness. Historical and contemporary analysis of the relationship between social structure, on one hand, and knowledge and ideologies on the other.

SOC 442: Sociology of Science and Technology (3-0)-3 An overview of the cognitive framework and technological basis of modern scientific knowledge in historical perspective; the development of the sociology of science as a distinct area of research; science as a determinate form of knowledge; science as social relations, science as a production process; the institutional and social context of scientific activity; inner hierarchy and social stratification in science. Enframing of techno-science in the 'information' age.

SOC 452: Critique of Sociology (3-0)-3 The formation of sociology; sociology and ideology; sociology and politics; the 'sociological' conception of society. Debates on modernity and post-modernity.

SOC 455: Literature, Culture and Society (3-0)-3 Examines the literature of Turkish disaporic communities in Germany in its historical, social, political and cultural context. Focuses on the literature that emerges out of the experience of being marginalized as a 'foreigner' or 'guest', experience of Turkish immigrants. Examine how a variety of concerns represented in these writings such as the question of determining what is one's 'own' culture, tensions of defining a non-German self, cultural differences, the role of language in establishing identity in an 'alien' culture, the loss of mother tongue, assimilation and alienation, cultural signs of hybridity, loss of the past, longing for home in displacement.

SOC 456: Sociology of the Middle East (3-0)-3 Ethnic origins of Middle Easter peoples and the historical roots of Middle Eastern culture. Ecological, cultural and socio-economic diversity. The process of transformation of selected countries.

SOC 457: Culture, Identity and Post-Colonial Theory (3-0)-3 This course will focus on the strategies by which demarcations between self and other and corollary distinctions between First World-Third World, West-East and masculine-feminine are deployed in various cultural and political discourses. The emergent and contested dimensions of modern, gendered, national and cultural identities will be examined through post-colonial theorists such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon.

SOC 461: Debates on Turkey (3-0)-3 This course aims to cover the principal academic and political debates on Turkey's social structure. Debates on the following issues are to be examined: the formation, consolidation and collapse of the Ottoman Empire; main paths in Ottoman modernization; the foundation of the Republic; 1930s: present vs. past and inkılaps vs. traditions; the agents of the inkılap: the Turkish Hearths, the People's Houses, and the Village Institutes; the transition to multi-party era and the true nature of Democratic Party; the 1960 Coup; Turkey as a feudal, Asiatic of capitalist society; the riese of political Islam and ethnic revival in 1990s.

SOC 485: Third World Politics (3-0)-3 This course adopts a comparative approach in discussing political issues of the Third World. Key elements of the political process will be examined within the context of three main regions: Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Special attention will be given to the different ways in which these regions were integrated into the global system.

GRADUATE COURSES

SOC 500: Prothesis Seminar NC

SOC 501-502: Sociological Theory I-II (3-0)-3 The aim of this course is to make students familiar with concepts, issues and debates in the field of contemporary social and critical theory. It will examine key concepts such as representation, power, subjectivity, desire, signification, sexuality, the unconscious, and difference by way of examining major continental critical theories.

SOC 503: Problems of Studying Women in Muslim Societies (3-0)-3 This course aims to stimulate debate about the problem of considering "Muslim women" as a distinct category to study the status, image and role of women in Muslim societies. It discusses the impact of Islam in the formation of patriarchal structures, practices, and discourses of Middle Eastern societies in their cultural and historical specifities while focusing on the literature chish examines the predicaments of women in Turkish society.

SOC 505-506: Advanced Political Sociology I-II (3-0)-3 The main theme of this course is elites and elite theories. Following the introduction of elite theories, students are expected to discuss the pros and cons of each theory. After the historical review of elite theories, recent problems relating to elites will be taken up and discussed in the light of the experiences of Western and Middle Eastern countries.

SOC 507: Research Methods I (3-0)-3 This course aims to relate recent discussions in the philosophy of science to methodological issues in social sciences and humanities. Various philosophical issues which have implications for social science research and limitations of the social sciences are discussed.

SOC 508: Research Methods II (3-0)-3 This is a continuation of SOC 507. Students learn and apply research and data analysis techniques by using real social science data. Quantitative as well as qualitative research techniques are introduced and applied to various data-sets of internet. The course seeks to increase the data analytical skills of the students.

SOC 509: International Regimes and Gender Equality (3-0)-3 The course aims to analyze the interplay between governmental and non-governmental actors at national and international levels in establishing international regimes to transform social inequalities particularly in the area of gender. It starts out with a discussion on the need to link paradigm (academia), policy (governance structures) and praxis (activism) in the production of socially relevant knowledge. The focus will be on international regimes, particularly those within the context of the United Nations, that promote equality and human rights for women. It will focus on both the processes of the intergovernmental bodies (Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), General Assembly (GA) and the treaty body (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)) and the impact of scholarship and activism on their creation. Equality policies and human rights instruments and the institutional support mechanisms for these bodies will be analyzed. The effectiveness of the 4 World Conferences and World Conferences of the 1990s in fostering compliance with equality policies and international law will also be analyzed. Finally, the affect of these mechanisms and processes in achieving gender equality at the national level will be examined.

SOC 510: Urban Theory and Policy (3-0)-3 Theories relating to urbanization and urban life are discussed and policies formulated to cope with urban problems are evaluated. Social stabilization has placed the question of daily practices back on the agenda. It forces us to think abour individual diversity and questions of social (re)production and 'ways of life'. Thus our leading question will be to discuss structure and/vs. the positions of agents in the context of contemporary urban theories. Special attention is given to the case of Turkey.

SOC 511: Local Politics (3-0)-3 Goals, processes and patterns of territorial distribution of power. Administrative decentralization and political decentralization. Community power structure and decision-making at local levels. Politicization of the periphery. Local and regional autonomy in the European integration.

SOC 512: Population Movements in a Globalizing World (3-0)-3 This course aims to answer the following question: How does global restructuring affect the movements of people accross space? Five types of interrelated categories of population movements are identified: 1. population displacements due to increased conflict and civil strife as well as natural disasters; 2. illegal forms of international migrant labor arrangements including trafficking in women; 3. reverse and return migration from north to south and urban to rural; 4. shuttle between two or more worlds with strong links in all; 5. 'rented' temporary free-floating migrant labor. Relevant international organizations; immigration policies; gender differentials; social construction of identities, networks and communities; household survival strategies and emerging trends, constraints and prospects for population movements will be considered. While these patterns of population movements will be analyzed within a global context, students will be expected to analyze each category as it is experienced in the case of Turkey.

SOC 513: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Religion (3-0)-3 Comparative approaches to the study of religion and society with special reference to the problems posed by modernity, secularism, nationalism, democracy and generalized education. The main emphasis is on the religions of the developed world.

SOC 515: State and Civil Society in Eurasia (3-0)-3 This course will enable students to understand state and civil society relations in the post-Soviet transformation. The course aims to introduce students to the main theoretical debates concerning the causes and the nature of the political, social, and economic transformation from communism; to provide theories of transition, democratization and theoretical approaches to state-society relations while explaining varieties of post-Soviet transition. The course will particularly focus on the formation of civil society organizations (non-government organizations, unions, movements, umbrella groups), their aims and activities, their role in the process of transition and democratization and the nature of the relationship between governments and civil society organizations. The course will also explore the impact of the international element (international governmental and non-governmental organizations) on governments and NGOs and its role enable in the formations of state civil society relations.

SOC 516: Gender, Media and Cultural Representation (3-0)-3 This course aims to focus on the modalities of mass media by which hegemonic construction of gender identities come to be realized. Film, television and texts produced through cyberspace, photography, and the graphic arts and also 'women genres' as objects of analysis and as research tools. Retrospective inquiries on the selected topics will depend on the current research interests of students and they will design and carry out their projects.

SOC 517: Economic and Social Transformations in Eurasia (3-0)-3 This course analyses the fundamental economic and social changes in Eurasia in recent decades. It focuses on the establishment and functioning of the socialist system and its later dismantling in favor of a market economy. Both of these transformation processes included not only the change of economic patterns and property rights but also affected social relations, values and ideologies. The course discusses general issues and theories of transformations as well as comparing selected case studies. Particular attention will be given to the impacts of political and macro-economic changes on local communities.

SOC 518: Social Movements and Civic Action (3-0)-3 The course will critically examine the major theoretical approaches to the study of social movements and NGOs. The emergence and development of any social protest: recruitment and mobilization, tactics and strategies, and external opposition and control. Do contemporary forms of protest strengthen civil society and democratic development around the world? The objective of the course is to critically apply the theories we discuss to contemporary protest and political activity.

SOC 519: Feminism and Methodology in Social Sciences (3-0)-3 This course aims to review and re-evaluate the feminist methodological literature and the basic themes in feminist research methods with a critical perspective. This involves the historical and current discussions in women's studies on the relations between science and philosophy; theory and methodology; research and epistemology; and objectivity and subjectivity. The course questions the purpose and sources of knowledge and the legitimized 'knower'.

SOC 520: Introduction to Structural Equation Models (3-0)-3 The aim of the course is to prepare students to understand the structural equation models which are widely used in the literature, and to teach them how to use them for their own research. The emphasis is on correlation specification error, measurement error, unobserved variables, multiple indicators, and the form and substance of sociological models.

SOC 521: The Sociology of Structural Transformation (3-0)-3 Historical sociological approach to the problem of structural transformations. History and new conceptions of time. Transformational mechanisms in non-linear social history. From hierarchical to network society. Society, state and non-governmental organizations. From civil society to resistance and project communities/identities. From defence of place to space of flows.

SOC 522: Sociology of the Middle East (3-0)-3 The Middle East in historical and world contexts. Islam and development of secularization in Turkey and other countries in the Middle East. Social, cultural, and educational transformations in selected countries of the Middle East. Modernity, post-modernity, globalization, orientalism, fundamentalism, authenticity, identity and religion. Sociological and anthropological depictions of cultural transitions in the Middle East and Islamic world.

SOC 523: Data Analysis (3-0)-3 This is basically a computer assisted data analysis course. Knowledge of introductory statistics and any computer program such as SPSS, SAS, Minitop are required. Students learn various statistical data analysis techniques by analysing real social science data.

SOC 524: Modernity and Post-Modernity (3-0)-3 The origins of modernity. Kantian and Hegelian visions of Enlightenment. Tradition and modernity; the aftermath of the Structuralist debates; different theoretical approaches to the constitution of modern 'subjectivity'. Post-modern politics and the question of democracy. The Enlightenment Project: incomplete or aborted?

SOC 525: Global and Local Debates on Civil Society (3-0)-3 This course explores theories and cental debates evolving around the issue of civil society. It focuses on the relationship between state and civil society organizations which has been central to sociological analysis and the changing role of these organizations pertaining to globalization. It particularly examines recent debates on civil society and discourses of civil society organizations in Turkey. Controversial issues that affect civil society organizations are also discusses.

SOC 526: Issues in Women's Work and Employment (3-0)-3 The actual and potential contribution of women in economic life. Gender segregation and discrimination in the labor market and the causes and consequences of women's unequal position at work. Impact of technological changes and economic recession on women's work; gender in the international division of labor, the economic importance of the informal sector and of women's labor.

SOC 527: Society and Culture in Iran (3-0)-3 This course offers a general overview of the contemporary Iranian society and culture through a critical discussion of the anthropological and sociological works on Iran. The principle aim is to provide students with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to explore and appreciate the diversity of individual and collective experiences in Iran from a culturally relativistic point of view. Students will be encouraged to contextualize the course material within a comparative and historical framework while also keeping in touch with current developments.

SOC 528: Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction and Feminist Theory (3-0)-3 This course explores the general problematic of sexual difference by examining several thinkers such as Irigaray, Kristeva, Le Douffe, Cixous, Butler, Cornell, and the ways in which they utilized poststructuralist theories developed by thinkers like Jacques Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida and Foucault who have provied theoretical tools by which we can critically examine the construction of the subject, sexuality, and identity.

SOC 529: Migration and Ethnicity in Eurasian Studies (3-0)-3 The aim of this course is to scrutinize the relationship between identity, ethnicity, migration and culture; the interaction between dominant cultures and minority groups and its impact on ethnic identity formation in Eurasian studies. Case studies for this course come from groups such as the Crimean Tartars, Meskhetian (Ahiska) Turks, Soviet Germans, Soviet Jews and the Russians. In addition to the western theories of ethnicity, the Soviet ethnos theory and the Soviet nationality policy are critically examined to analyze the groups specified above.

SOC 530: Kinship, Tribe, Confederation and State in Central Asia and the Middle East (3-0)-3 The kinship-based structure of tribal organization and its relation to supra-tribal and non-tribal forms of organization in Central Asia and the Middle East. Concept of the segmentary lineage system and its critics; tribal structure as an organizational framework functioning simultaneously at various levels from local to societal; the historical conflict between tribe and state in the two regions.

SOC 531: Sociological and Economic Issues on Turkey (3-0)-3 Formation of nation-state; capitalist penetration and incorporation; state and capital; populism; ideological conservatism; modernity, Westernization; statism; merchant bourgeoisie and political rule; state and hegemony; breakdowns of the internal order and the establishment of hegemony; ideologies and patterns of domination in internal politics; social movements; relations among and between subordinate and dominant classes.

SOC 532: Sociological Themes and Debates in Politics, Science and Culture (3-0)-3 Critical analysis of the historical and contemporary themes and debates in politics, science and culture: confusion between social science and social philosophy; how material and spiritual cultures are related and what are their bases; historical development of the forms of social consciousness; politics and contemporary philosophical analysis; a critical evaluation of the methodology of modern political science.

SOC 533: Gender issues on Class and Patriarchy (3-0)-3 The classical approaches to class and patriarchy in historical and contemporary perspectives; interpretation and explanation of structured social inequality, patriarchal relations and their implications on politics and social change; women's position and the system of economic exploitation; feminist and main-stream stances on the gender and stratification debate; feminist approaches giving emphasis on patriarchal structures.

SOC 534: Anthropology of Europe (3-0)-3 This course offers a general overview of the European society and culture through a critical discussion of the anthropological works on the area. The principal aim is to provide students with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to explore and appreciate the diversity of individual and collective experiences in Europe from a culturally relativistic point of view. Moreover, the European Union and its enlargement process as reflected through the anthropological lens will be major focus of the readings and class discussions.

SOC 535: Contemporary Feminist Theory (3-0)-3 This course explores a number of theories and central issues evolving around the issues of women's oppression. It particularly focuses on patriarcy which has been central to much feminist analysis and continues to inform a great deal of feminist work.

SOC 536: Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia (3-0)-3 The course will provide an understanding of the region and its peoples over the course of the last century. So it will start with a general overview of its geography and history as well as some general patterns of traditional economy and society, including the major religions in the past and in the present. The second part will introduce the indigenous peoples in the region, i.e., those that were already living there before the area was annexed by the Russians and the Chinese respectively. In the third and fourth parts the changes that took place during the socialist times in the aftermath of the dissolution of the socialist systems will be discussed.

SOC 538: Human Development and Social Policy (3-0)-3 This course explores the concept and practice of Human Development as a sociological analysis tool with emphasis on national and social development policy building. The course will examine the multifarious social and economic development debates offered by the global Human Development Reports (HDR) or UNDP, published annually sice 1990. Particular emphasis will be given to analysis and discussion of Turkey's human development performance in the context of the construction of the Human Development Index (HDI) and in the time period of 1990-2005 while comparative perspective maintained with those of selected UN member states, EU and OECD countries. Controversial human development issues will be discussesed with the aim of shifting analysis towards the adoption of the Human Development perspective in policy making and development priority setting for socio-economic development and formulation of related action programmes/projects.

SOC 540: Class and Ethnic Relations in the Middle East (3-0)-3 This course focuses on patterns of collective identity, solidarity and conflict based on such ascriptive factors as descent, language, customs and belief systems and examines how communal fragmentation coexist with the emerging class formations in the Middle East. Comparative analysis will be used to identify political cleavages within as well as among communal groups in this particular region.

SOC 545: Sociology of Everyday Life and Interpresonal Relations (3-0)-3 Studies on the sociology of everyday life and the studies on interpresonal relations in small group contexts will be brought together in this course through a critical survey and discussion of recent literature.

SOC 546: Issues in Criminology (3-0)-3 The relationship between criminal law and social structure. Social order and crime. Police force, jails and courts, prejudice and streotype definitions. Crime as a social product. Theoretical issues and methodological problems.

SOC 550: Middle East Women, Feminism and Orientalism (3-0)-3 Feminist debates concerning the problems that pertain to the cross-cultural representation of Middle Eastern women. Studies which call into question the assumptions of a singular, unitary and homogeneous category of the Middle East women. The epistemological and theoretical aspects of Orientalist and evolutionary paradigms. The traditional geopolitics such as colonialism, modernization and nationalism.

SOC 551: Sociology, History, and Religion (3-0)-3 Principally being supplementary to SOC 650: Sociology and History, this course aims at deepening perspectives on Historical Sociology by concentrating on problems raised by different kinds of religious movements. Based on perspectives developed within comparative religion, special attention will be given to developments in the Middle East.

SOC 560: Globalization and Diasporas (3-0)-3 This course aims to analyze the political, economic and cultural dimensions of globalization at an advanced level. It will focus on the formation of diasporic communities; bi-national affiliations and multiple loyalties; the role and status of the nation-state; arguments of de-nationalization; new forms of racism and counter-forces of multiculturalist claims; global cities as the most intensely polarized social spaces of the activities of globalization; cosmopolitan attachments and the different ways in which borders are crossed by migrants and tourists.

SOC 561: Ideology and Discourse Analysis (3-0)-3 This course aims to study the trajectory of the categories of 'ideology' and 'discourse' in radical social thought with a focus upon the issues of 'constitution of meaning' and 'constitution of subject'. The topics to be discussed throughout the course are as follows: Marxism and idelogy, ideology as false consciousness (Lukacs), the question of hegemony (Gramsci), ideology as interpellation (Althusser), signification theory of linguistics (Saussure), the priority of utterence (Voloshinov), archeological and genealogical readings of texts (Foucault), the discursiveness of the social (Laclau and Mouffe), and intertextuality (poststructuralism and Derrida).

SOC 570: Citizenship and Society (3-0)-3 A brief history of citizenship. Main contours of citizenship. Citizenship as membership; citizenship and political community. Citizenship as status; citizenship rights. Citizenship as participation. Liberal, communitarian and republican approaches to citizenship. Transformation of political community and citizenship today. New modalities of citizenship. Citizenship in the European Union.

SOC 599: Master's Thesis NC

SOC 600: Ph.D. Seminar (3-0)-3 The purpose of this seminar is to help Ph.D. students in writing up their proposals and conducting their research.

SOC 628: Global Society (3-0)-3 This course aims to identify the major trends of change within the globalization process, i.e., transformation of contemporary world. The emphasis will be on the changing character of global division of labor and its implications for the relationships between state, community and the individual both in developed as well as underdeveloped societies.

SOC 631: Current Issues in Sociology and Social Theory (3-0)-3 The purpose of this course is to follow up the most recent topics of discussion in sociology. Concepts and theories will be critically scrutinized in terms of logical consistency, empirical validity and the general relevance of the issues.

SOC 632: Recent Developments in Methods of Sociological Inquiry (3-0)-3 The course will introduce recent quantitative/qualitative techniques to students. Various techniques for data collection, fieldwork and data analysis will be introduced. Students will be encouraged to use recent research techniques in the course so as to increase their mastery of the research tools.

SOC 633: Social History of Institutions in Turkey (3-0)-3 The key institutions and processes of institutionalization in Turkey's recent history. Course material will include basic books, official reports, legal documents, newspaper collections, pamphlets, literary works as well as personal materials such as letters, diaries and journals.

SOC 641: Sociology of Industrialization and Modernization (3-0)-3 A critical review of theories and debates on the transition from agrarian social structure to modern structures in the West and in the Third World. A critical evaluation of strategies of industrialization and its consequences. Industrialization, urbanization, their interrelationships and their social and cultural consequences.

SOC 642: Sociological and Anthropological Studies in Turkey (3-0)-3 This course has two aims. First, to ensure that the students are familiar with the range of available empirical researches and studies on Turkey, and secondly, to examine critically and in detail some selected examples.

SOC 643: Advanced Issues in the Sociology of Knowledge (3-0)-3 An understanding of the dynamic relations between ideas, ideologies, norms and values; social groups and strata. Reading of classical theorists in the sociology of knowledge. The role of ideas, norms and values in the constitution of historically-determinate social formations and civilizational complexes. The relationships between knowledge and everyday life.

SOC 644: Public Opinion, Culture and the Media (3-0)-3 The role of the mass media in molding and reflecting public opinion and cultural values. 'Agenda-setting' or 'mainstreaming' functions of the media; the organization of public debate around a certain issue in current affair and new programs. Media and politics; political propaganda and campaingning and its effects on political attitudes and voting behavior. Media and culture; advertising and the formation of dominant image patterns.

SOC 646: Family, Marriage and Kinship: Debates and Issues (3-0)-3 Current controversies concerning the relation between modern industrial systems of production and the social relations of reproduction based on domestic groups, marriage and kinship relations.

SOC 647: Power, Status and Social Rank (3-0)-3 Current debates on selected issues in stratification and social mobility. Patterns of status and class differentiation in relation to division of labor, prestige, and esteem. Class formation and internal class divisions. Poulantzas, E. O. Wright and P. Bourdieu on class and status; class and consumption, life-style; class and gender; class and race and ethnicity migration; class and poverty; class and citizenship.

SOC 648: Order and Social Control: Formality and Informality (3-0)-3 Theories and controversies, with detailed examples, concerning the relation between the judicial and penal systems of a modern state and the informal controls over individual conduct based on day to day social interaction.

SOC 649: States, Nations and Political Alignments (3-0)-3 The formation of states, in the light of different theoretical constructions such as Eisenstadt's 'bureaucratic empires', P. Anderson's 'absolutist state', Weber's 'patrimonialism', Rokkan's 'nation state'. Nationalism in the modern world. Increased bureaucratization and the broadening of political participation, the question of democracy and ideologies that either accept of reject its tenets.

SOC 650: Sociology and History (3-0)-3 The course starts with a comparison between history and sociology as two different academic disciplines. Similarities and differences concerning theoretical conceptions and methods will be discussed. 'Social History' will be compared to 'Historical Sociology'. Selected recent examples of the application of sociological theories to historical data, in Turkey and elsewhere, will be critically examined.

SOC 651: Comparative Study of Agrarian Social Structures (3-0)-3 Organization and structure of peasantry, peasant family, village communities and their relationship with market, state and cultural contexts and major changes that have been taking place in these structures and relationships will be studies in historical and comparative perspective.

SOC 652: Organization and Work (3-0)-3 This course attempts first a comparative study of current debates about the way people in different societies organize productive and service sector activities, from hunting to modern industry; and secondly, a reading of a number of selected intensive case studies.

SOC 653: Sociology of Studies on Women (3-0)-3 Critical examination of the data and theories in sociology about women. Biological versus social explanation, stereotyping, sex roles in different societies, and the gender component in power relations. Neoclassical and radical approaches to labor force participation, domestic work, the household and female sexuality. Theoretical and empirical analysis of the connections between production, reproduction and the sexual division of labor.

SOC 654: Economic and Social History of Turkish Society (3-0)-3 This course attempts a comprehensive study of Turkish society in historical perspective, based on the rigorous reading of classical and modern texts of relevance. This projecdt is to be realized at two levels: 1. the survey of certain social structures Turks had, notably those of Central Asia, Seljukid and Ottoman Anatolia, and modern Turkey; 2. issues and theoretical problems and debates of modern Turkish historiography concerning these past forms.

SOC 699: Ph.D. Dissertation NC

SOC 800-899: Special Studies NC

SOC 900-999: Special Topics NC