SOC444 SOCIOLOGY OF SURVEILLANCE
| Course Code: | 2320444 |
| 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: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ÇAĞATAY TOPAL |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Students will understand surveillance as a sociological concept and fact, and will interpret its sociological consequences.
Course Content
Overview of surveillance theories from a sociological perspective; surveillance and modernity; surveillance and postmodernity; surveillance in different social contexts; current trends in surveillance; relation of surveillance to globalization, immigration, communication and information technologies; political economy of surveillance.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Students will explain surveillance as a separate sociological concept and defines its connections to other significant sociological concepts (particularly modernity, globalization, technology, immigration).
2. Students will identify the dynamics of the contemporary society, which is often called “Surveillance Society”.
3. Students will locate surveillance within its various social contexts.
4. Students will describe theoretical and empirical matters that affect surveillance researches.
5. Students will trace the positions and effects of surveillance in terms of everyday practice.
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