Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
140400106101ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGYElective364
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
Main purpose of the course is to examine economic cases in a social context and to handle issues with basic criteria putting emphasis on spatial and historical process.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Dr. Şevki Özbilen
Learning Outcomes
1Analyzing the newly known social economic events with a certain epistemology
2Using the notions that are learned in course about the current events
3Analyzing social developments.
4Relate sociological concepts with economic developments.
5Define main concepts in economic sociology.
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
NONE
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Contents
Dynamic relations between society and individual, notion of "socailization" Human-nature relationship and human-human relationship with a framework of social structure and that its factors Development of colloboration surveillance relations and analyze of value relations Differentations that are based on gender, class and status in social collaboration
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Analyzing social fact (First chapters of book I and II)
2Analyzing social fact (First chapters of book I and II)
3Production relations (production-use value-exchange value, commodity, monetary concepts)
4Circulation relations - I (consumption relations)
5Circulatipn relations-II (distribution relations)
6Inspection and control relations -I (property, division of labor, surplus value and social classes)
7Inspection and control relations-II (production and control in agricultural societies)
8 Midterm exam
9Concrete analysis of social fact - I (location and population)
10Concrete analysis of social fact - II (Values and Institutions)
11Social change - I (Basic characteristics of social change)
12Social change - II (Basic characteristics of social change)
13Development issues - I (Historical perspective)
14Development issues - II (Contemporary approach)
Recommended or Required Reading
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14040
Individual Study for Mid term Examination14040
Individual Study for Final Examination14040
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)122
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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