TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Mustafa Gündüz Assistant Professor Çiğdem Sema Sırma
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Topics such as modernization, postmodernism, actor-society-structure relations, social change, power, post-structuralism, structure degradation which can be considered as contemporary theoretical approaches of sociology are discussed. 2) Sociological perspectives developed by contemporary theorists such as Mills, Tourain, Derrida, Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, Baudrillard and Baudelaire are discussed comparatively.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	In this course, topics such as modernization, post-modernism, actor-society-structure relations, social change, power, post-structuralism, deconstruction, which can be counted among the contemporary theoretical approaches of sociology, will discussed comparatively by the works of contemporary theorists such as Mills, Tourain, Derrida, Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, Baudrillard and Baudelaire.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Structuralism 2nd Week Alain Touraine and Modern Society 3rd Week Post-modern Social Theory 4th Week Zygmunt Bauman 5th Week Jean Baudrillard 6th Week Pierre Bourdieu 7th Week Michel Foucault and Post-Structuralism 8th Week Jacques Derrida and Post-Structuralism 9th Week Post-Marxism 10th Week Jürgen Habermas 11th Week Contemporary Feminist Theory 12th Week Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 13th Week Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 14th Week Immanuel Wallerstein and World System Theory
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Bottomore, Tom; Robert Nisbet (2010) Sosyolojik Çözümlemenin Tarihi. Kırmızı Yayınevi Best, Steven- Kellner, Douglas (1991) Postmodern Teori: Eleştirel Soruşturmalar. Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul. Paloma, Margaret. (2007). Çağdaş Sosyoloji Kuramları. EOS Yayınları, Ankara. Calhoun, Craig and others (Eds. )(2012). Contemporary Sociological Theory. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Berger,Joseph; Morris Zelditch (Eds.) (2002) New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Assignment 1 15 Total(%) 55 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 55 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 45 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz 0 0 0 Individual or group work 14 12 168 Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20 Laboratory (including preparation) 0 0 0 Final exam 1 4 4 Homework 1 34 34 Total Workload 300 Total Workload / 30 10 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No