| Objectives: |
This course aims to enable the students who have taken SOS 115 Introduction to Sociology course to establish the whole-part relation in sociological reality by recognizing the relations between sociology and subjects and thus to gain sociological imagination. At the end of the course, the students will be able to recall and explain the basic sociological concepts, to distinguish sociological phenomena both as an institution and as a network of interaction in the process of change, as well as to interpret the meaning, pattern and processes in the global world using sociological knowledge, and to explain the function of the method and research in the production of sociological knowledge. |
| Content: |
The students from all departments of the faculty take this course. SOS 116 Introduction to Sociology is given only to the students of the Sociology Department in the spring semester. Therefore, in this course, along with new topics, some important topics which are summarized as compulsory in the fall semester will be studied in detail and in depth. The relations of each subject with each other will be explained through the concrete factual examples. Contents of the course include the Relation Between Group, Organization and Institution, the Relation Between Modernization, Globalization and Culture, Culture and its Components: Cognitive culture, behavioural culture, the relations between material culture and symbols. In addition, new social movements will be discussed in the process of globalization. |