SOC257 CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
| Course Code: | 2320257 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 4 (4.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
The course traces different conceptualizations of society by reading various texts that have been influential in the formation of sociology as a scientific discipline. The readings cover an extensive period from the 16th to the first part of the 20th century. In the first part of the course, the topics such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, rationalism and empiricism, the theory of natural law, the Enlightenment and the conservative critique of the Enlightenment, and the emergence of early positivism and evolutionary thought will be examined. In the second part, there will be a detailed analysis of the main concepts of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel, whose texts have laid out the main lines of the debates in sociological theory. In the last part, structural functionalist school and symbolic interaction theory will be analyzed as the two polar points of methodological debates in sociology.
Course Learning Outcomes
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To correlate sociology and other social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To renew and improve their accumulation by following up-to-date publications and research programs in their fields | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be open to occupational novelties in order to understand social change | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To know and implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be aware of social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To understand social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution