SOC102 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
| Course Code: | 2320102 |
| 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 |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HEDİYE SİBEL KALAYCIOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course will help the students to be able to have a vision about "what is sociology?" and " what are the origins of this disipline?". All students are expected to obtain basic understanding about
- " what are the major perspectives in the classical period?",
-" what are contemporary perpspectives and theories?" ,
- "what is major principles of methods and research in Sociolology?
- Explanations about the concept "Culture and Socialization"
- Social Inequalities
- Gender
-Family and Households.
Also students are expected to gain insignt about how to question "common sense" and to differentiate it from "sociological knowledge".
- acquiring some skills about how to write short essays to predetermined questions.
Course Content
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
students who passes the course successfully are expected to be able
-to identfy the significance of Sociology as a scientific discipline
- to identfy basic theoritical concepts in relation to different perspectives
- to explain theoritical perspectives in a contextual background
- to formulate sociological problematics for research
- to integrate theory with 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