Course Code and Title: SOS 716-Social Structure of Turkey II

Course Type: Elective
Course Level: Ph.D.
Course Semester: Spring
Course Length: One semester
Prerequisite(s): None
Language of Instruction: Turkish
Course Credits: 3 0 3
ECTS Credits: 10
Lecturer: Dr.  Serdar Sağlam
Course Contents:
At the first stage of the course, information is given on the structural analysis of the social institutions.
At the second stage, structural-categorical data is given on the six fundamental social institutions in the Turkish Republican period.
At the third stage, the reports, which have been prepared by the students on their own choice and related to their thesis, under the interrelationship of the variables within a fundamental social institution, are discussed.
Course Objectives: The fundamental aim of the course is to provide students who will prepare a doctorate thesis on in particular, five main social institutions, namely, politics, economy, family, religion, education and art in the framework of the socio-cultural structural analysis in the Turkish Republican Period with the information to identify the variables of their analysis. Second, it is aimed that the students see the different stances of the variables from different sociological perspectives, that they do a conceptual model that would possibly emerge in this regard, and that they gain a notion as to how they could classify the information in the literature accordingly. Thus, special attention is attached on students’ data collection and command on literature on the basis of their doctorate thesis.
Theaching Method: The post-graduate students are supposed to examine the issue, to prepare a research paper and to deliver a presentation, active participation and discussions are encouraged.
Assessment Method: One report (50 %) and a final report (50 %).
Recommended Reading List:
Güngör, Erol. (1990) Tarihte Türkler, 3. b.,İstanbul: Ötüken Yayınevi.
Lewis, Bernard. (1984) Modern Türkiye’nin Doğuşu, 2. b., Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayını.
Güvenç, Bozkurt. (1993) Türk Kimliği, Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayını.
Ögel, Bahaeddin. (1998) Dünden Bugüne Türk Kültürünün Gelişme Çağları, 3. b., İstanbul: Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı Yayınları.
Boratav, Korkut. (1991) 1980’li yıllarda Türkiye’de Sosyal Sınıflar ve Bölüşüm, İstanbul: Gerçek Yayınları.
Güven, İsmail. (2000) Türkiye’de Devlet, Eğitim ve İdeoloji, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi.
Morel, Eugene. (1999) Türkiye ve Reformları, İstanbul: Süreç Yayınları.
Tezcan, Mahmut. (2000) Türk Ailesi Antropolojisi, Ankara: İmge Yayınları.