SOC303 SOCIOLOGY OF CHANGE AND TRANSITION I
| Course Code: | 2320303 |
| 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: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ÇAĞATAY TOPAL |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Students will comprehend change as a never-ending sociological transformation of fetish to fact and of fact to fetish.
Course Content
Multi-paradigmatic nature of the theories of social/society, social change and modernization will be illustrated through the following concepts and related theories: system differentiation, social and action systems; industrial, democratic and educational revolutions; world system, globalization, information age; material vs. symbolic reproduction / transformation; structuration; capital, habitus and relational structuring of fields and subfields in modern societies.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Students will make sense of the concept of change as a continuous transformation.
2. Students will define fact, fetish and their inseparable relations.
3. Students will identify the transitions from fact to fetish and from fetish to fact.
4. Students will name a comprehensive sense of reality as the amalgamation of fact and fetish.
5. Students will locate everyday reality in terms of fact and fetish.
6. Students will explain the inseparable relation between sociological theory and sociological 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