SOC385 SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY
| Course Code: | 2320385 |
| 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: | Assist.Prof.Dr IRMAK KARADEMİR HAZIR |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of key perspectives and debates on the body in social life. At the end of the course, students will be able to reflect on issues such as discipline, inequalities, aging and death, and biotechnology in a sociological way. The course will provide a ground upon which the bodily basis of social transformation and change in Western societies can be debated with theoretical and empirical terms.
Course Content
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
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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