SOC 201 Social Theory |
3 Credits |
What is society? What makes and holds societies together?
Why and how do societies change and develop -
or else fail to do so? This introductory sociology
course presents an overview of the major theories
of society proposed through the 19th and 20th centuries,
ranging from classical theory through Marx and Weber
to critical theory, hermeneutics and the interpretive
tradition, psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism
, post-colonial theory, feminist and post-modernist
theories. Key issues for the study of (post)modern
society include: the relationship between knowledge, power
and representation; consumption, commoditization and
electronic forms of exchange; the impact of new
information technologies; transnationalism, global cities
and hybrid identities; and local knowledge and everyday life
viewed as text and performance. While the last few decades'
decline of master narratives or "grand theories"
has fed into the current emphasis on
interdisciplinarity, the main premise of this course
is that the need for interdisciplinarity brings with it a
further need: that of a firm grounding in social theory.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Summer 2022-2023 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Summer 2019-2020 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Summer 2018-2019 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2015-2016 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2002-2003 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Fall 2001-2002 |
Social Theory |
3 |
Spring 2000-2001 |
Social Theory |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: SOC 201D |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 201D Social Theory - Discussion |
0 Credit |
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Summer 2022-2023 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Summer 2019-2020 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Summer 2018-2019 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2015-2016 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Social Theory - Discussion |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: SOC 201 |
ECTS Credit: NONE ECTS (NONE ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 203 Perspectives on Law and Society |
3 Credits |
The course offers a survey of the interdisciplinary
field of Law and Society. Works from a variety of
disciplinary traditions such as Anthropology, Sociology,
History, Political Science, Economics, Philosophy and
Literature shall be read. Some of the main themes that
Law and Society scholarship has tackled over the
last three decades: origins and different sorts of law and
lawmaking, the relationship of law to the political domain,
the relationship of law to socio-economic structures
of hierarchy and the relation between law on the books and
law in action will be explored.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Perspectives on Law and Society |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Perspectives on Law and Society |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Perspectives on Law and Society |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 300 Sociology of Science |
3 Credits |
This course provides an introduction to the study of
science as a social field and practice. It explores major
approaches in the sociology of science, including
institutional analysis, social constructivism, laboratory
studies, actor-network theory, social worlds approach,
boundary-work, and field theory. Topics to be
discussed include the rise of modern science, the
evolution of scientific knowledge and practice, technology
and social change, gender in science, media representations
of science, science policy, and the commercialization of
scientific research.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Sociology of Science |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Sociology of Science |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 301 Political Sociology |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the study
of power, politics, and the state from a
sociological point of view. Topics to be covered
include sociological theories of domination
and the modern state, the social origins of political
regimes, collective action in revolutions and
social movements, class coalitions and welfare
states, social cleavages.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Political Sociology |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 305 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility |
3 Credits |
Recent years saw a surge of interest in the social
responsibilities of corporations in general and of
multi-national corporations in particular. Largely
premised on the view that corporate power exceeds or nearly
exceeds that of national governments in this global era,
various social forces are currently at play with the attempt
to redraw the redistributive obligations and capacities of
market, state and civil society. This class offers an in
depth introduction to the topic, drawing on theoretical and
empirical materials from sociology, political science,
management theory and law. The purpose is to familiarize
students with the contested meaning of the concept
of 'social responsibility,' and to introduce them
to the vibrant field of activity that emerges around it. In
particular, the aim is to familiarize students with concepts
and models such as corporate citizenship, triple bottom line
reporting, social performance management systems, social
accountability standards (e.g. SA8000), and compliance
and monitoring instruments and to situate those in the
context of evolving contemporary theories of governance and
regulation.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 308 Sociology of Religion |
3 Credits |
This course surveys major topics and perspectives
in the study of religion as a social institution.
It starts with the classical writings of Troeltsch,
Durkheim, Weber, and Geertz, and seeks to answer
the following questions using empirical cases drawn from
Europe, the United States, Turkey, and
India: Why do different societies experience different
degrees of secularization? How do
church-state relations and secular ideologies vary
from one setting to another? Can secularism
itself be considered a religion-like formation? What
is civil religion? What role does religion
play in social movements, and civil societies?
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Sociology of Religion |
3 |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Sociology of Religion |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Sociology of Religion |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 313 Turkish Social Thought |
3 Credits |
The course will deal with the basic social and political
ideas developed in the early and late republican period in
Turkey. in the first part a special emphasis will be given
to the formation of the social thought via the constitution
of the notion of law and society within the framework of
the 'essential' conflictual concepts, such as east-west,
modernity-conservatism. In the second part basic
schools of thought (like blue Anatolia) and the ideas and
arguments of the prominent thinkers and intellectuals will
be analyzsed. in this regard new understanding of the
social and the political will be dissected with special
reference to such debates as, modernity, postmodernity,
secularism, political Islam, Europe, globalisation. An
extensive review of Turkish literature in this context is
imperative.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
Fall 2002-2003 |
Turkish Social Thought |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 318 Qualitative Research Methods |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the principles
of qualitative sociological research. It provides a
strong theoretical basis for the interpretive
research questions and sociological methods,
such as interviewing, participant observation,
thematic focus groups, comparative
approaches, and the qualitative analysis of large
surveys.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 321 Urban Sociology |
3 Credits |
Social implications of urban life with respect to such
topics as patterns of city growth; urban social
organization (family, neighbourhood, community);
urban social issues (housing, crime); urban policy and
urban planning (sociology of planning, citizen
participation).
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
Summer 2007-2008 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
Summer 2005-2006 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
Summer 2002-2003 |
Urban Sociology |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 350 Science, Religion and Society |
3 Credits |
This course investigates the relationship between
religion and science from a historical and
comparative perspective. It explores historical
cases of conflict between religious authorities
and scientists, reviews different religions’ approaches
to scientific activity, examines the impact of
positivism, naturalism, and materialism on secularist
movements, and discusses contemporary controversies about
intelligent design, stem cell research, and genetic
reproductive technologies. The course concludes
with a discussion of the place of religion in
academic institutions and in the lives of scientists.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Science, Religion and Society |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 402 Media and Politics |
3 Credits |
This is a seminar course designed to explore three aspects
of media/politics in particular: (1) transnational/national
news agencies and media organizations in the era of digital,
cable and satellite communication (2) critical debates on
issues such as bias and objectivity in political reporting,
tabloid news, political scandal, investigative journalism
(3) intersections between media power and national politics,
including such themes as 'agenda setting', 'spin control',
'the spiral of silence' or 'political advertising'.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2015-2016 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Media and Politics |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 404 Media Research Workshop |
3 Credits |
The main aim of this workshop will be to provide
hands-on experience in media research
techniques. Students will be expected to work
on individual projects and/or joint projects
learning to apply various techniques
such as ''frame analysis'',; ''narrative analysis'';
''focus group analysis''.
The reading materials for the course
will include examples from existing
media research with different kinds of materials
(visual, written, digital) as well as
conventional ''methodology'' articles.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 406 Exploring the Legal Profession |
3 Credits |
The power that legal professionals enjoy, and the
dependence of social order on that power,
makes them the bearers of a number
of tensions. Lawyers, judges, prosecutors,
court clerks and police officers all operate
within hierarchical structures, maintaining the social
order while trying to deliver equality.
Other actors such as Constitutional Court judges
reflect upon and decide the rules through
which the 'game'- e.g. democracy - is to be played.
They are expected to keep up the legal form
in all their actions. But real life
conditions such as inadequate resources make
this a burdensome task. At times, their moral inclinations
as individuals conflict with their roles as legal actors.
This course explores these and other tensions that define
the role of legal professionals in social life, using
the legal profession as a lens through which to understand
the making of social, economic and political realities.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Exploring the Legal Profession |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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SOC 408 Religion and Politics |
3 Credits |
This course examines the interaction of religious
and political authorities, discourses, and institutions
through historical, comparative, and normative perspectives.
We will start our discussion with a
survey of the role of religion in the formation of modern
political institutions and identities, including the
modern state, long-distance and national social
movements, welfare regimes, and national identities.
We will then investigate various aspects of religious
politics, focusing in particular on religious movements and
violence, the rise and transformation of religious
parties, secularism as political ideology and movement
and the relationship between religious politics and
democracy. The course will
conclude with a review of recent debates in political
theory on the legitimate place of religion in
public life and in the political sphere. In the
course of the semester, we will discuss empirical
cases drawn from Europe, the U.S., the Middle
East, and Southeast Asia.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Religion and Politics |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 420 Sociology of Mobilities |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the study of current
mobilities of everything (people, ideas, goods, capital, and
images), the social, cultural and political aspects of the
infrastructure and workings of mobility places and systems,
and the historical formation of the mobility as an
insaparable feature of civilization, modernity and
globalization. Topics to be covered include Mobilities
Theory; cities as interfaces and spaces of travel and
tourism; inequalities across (im)mobilities; historical
development of transportation systems; global structures
of mobilities; airports, railways, and container ports;
mutual constitution of transportation, travel and tourism;
social, cultural and economic impacts of transportation
systems and hubs over place-making and social relations.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Sociology of Mobilities |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 425 Power, Economy, and Society |
3 Credits |
This course introduces students to the study of the
meaning, functions, and place of economic activities in
society from a comparative perspective. Topics to be
covered include globalization, capitalism and
neoliberalism; work and labor regimes; governmentality;
cultures of consumption; space and value;
deindustrialization and class; and cultural economy
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Power, Economy, and Society |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Power, Economy, and Society |
3 |
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Prerequisite: SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 426 Gender and Work |
3 Credits |
This course examines how the organization and practices
of labor, work, and workplace is gendered through a
historical and comparative socio-cultural lens. Subjects to
be examined include the constitutive relation between
gender identity, class position and labor force
participation; work and gender dynamics within different
sectors in contemporary planetary economy; the state’s
involvement with gender, family and work; and women’s
and men’s experiences of work hierarchies.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2020-2021 |
Gender and Work |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 432 Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 Credits |
Who are we? Every social group
tries to answer this question, albeit with significant
variation across cultures and throughout
history. All social groups also try
to define and enact rules about the sexual
activities of their members. Sociological and
anthropological literature shows that the ways in
which social groups define their rules about sexuality
relate to the ways in which they define boundaries
and maintain spaces for themselves. In this
course we are going to survey existing theoretical
discussions and research about this
problematic. Specific themes for discussion will vary,
but are likely to include such issues as
homosexuality, honor crimes and the headscarf
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Sexualities, Sociabilities |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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SOC 444 New Social Movements |
3 Credits |
This course's aim is to introduce students to the various
theoretical approaches to the study of the formation and
impact of new social movements. The interrelationship of new
social movements with identity politics and processes of
globalization will receive special attention. In analyzing
various theoretical approaches, we will concentrate on such
topics as collective action, resource mobilization, post-
Fordism, universality, multiculturalism, authenticity,
hybridity and globalization.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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