SOC382 SOCIOLOGY OF THE TURKISH TRANSFORMATIO
| Course Code: | 2320382 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞE CEYLAN TOKLUOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Once in several years. |
Course Objectives
This course is about the dynamics of family, marriage, kinship relations, lineage, and patriarchal structures in Turkey. It is based on classic anthropological and sociological texts written by Western and Turkish scholars that students should read and rely on since these texts allow us to better understand and comprehend the debates on Turkish modernization. The tension or conflict between traditionalism and modernization with an emphasis on the gender dimension of the process of modernization in Turkey is another theme of the course. This course is also about the multiple methods of data collection and methodological approaches in the fields of sociology and social anthropology. Overall, the course will help the students to trace the tension between cultural, ideological and political thinking in the context of Turkish modernization.
Course Content
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 discussed 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.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. The student will comprehend various anthropological and sociological debates about Turkish modernization.
2. The student will locate classic anthropological and sociological readings on Turkish family, marriage, kinship relations, lineage, and patriarchal structures.
3. The student will explain the dynamics of family, marriage, kinship, lineage, and patriarchy with reference to the conflict between traditionalism and modernization.
4. The student will identify multiple methods of data collection and methodological approaches in the fields of sociology and social anthropology.
5. The student will trace the tension between cultural, ideological and political thinking in the context of Turkish modernization.
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