Discusses the development of modern organizations and bureaucracies, and the deviations from the bureaucratic model with a focus on business organizations. Also provides an introduction to the sociology of work. Focuses on labor control, labor process, gender relations and the transformation of the structure of employment in industrial and service sectors.

Examines the works of major classical sociological theorists such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Discusses twentieth-century perspectives that build on classical theory (such as structural functionalism). Also explores the contemporary challenges to classical theory such as feminism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism.

Examines the social, economic, cultural and political forces that affect health and illness. Discusses individual experience and narratives of illness, the conceptualization of health and illness in hospitals and institutions and the political economy of health care. Focuses on the creation of medical knowledge, lay-professional interaction, inequalities in health and healthcare and health-related social movements.

Focuses on micro-sociological perspectives that approach society in bottom-up ways. Discusses our taken-for-granted and seemingly private experiences in everyday life and explores the ways in which larger forces and processes, such as gender, race, ethnicity, and class, are intertwined with the micro processes.

Main approaches to various institutions and actors that make up the field of international political economy. Question of who gets what at a global level from a multi-actored, multi-level and multi-disciplinary perspective. Interactions between states, markets, firms, NGOs, and not-for-profit organizations at the local, national, regional, and supranational levels. Global trade, production, finance, and knowledge structures and relations in the context of international organizations, transnational corporations, global financial structures, regional integrations, North-South relations, discourses and practices of development, and problems of global poverty.

Detailed examination of topics in Sociology.

Major social scientific theories and concepts that examine mass media and computermediated communication. Use of foundational and contemporary concepts to examine the role of communication and information technologies in shaping interactions among economics, politics, culture, and the broader society. Study of media and communication as objects of social scientific inquiry in relation to issues such as politics of representation, social movements, inequality, affect, and the state.

This course examines qualitative methods used in social science research, focusing primarily on participant-observation, on asking questions, on writing fieldnotes, and on the transformation of these primary field data into written ethnographic documents. Course readings on specific research methods will contribute to the formulation of a simple research project to be carried out during the semester. Literature on the theoretical and ethical aspects of these methods will also be considered.

Detailed examination of current topics in sociology.

:BODY POLITICS:Examination of the human body as a biological as well as social unit. Investigation of how society assigns meanings to the body as well as how individuals claim visibility and social participation through the body. Special attention to the social parameters and ideologies that serve to differentiate, categorize, and classify our bodies, such as race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and capitalism. Interdisciplinary perspectives to understanding the power dynamics inherent in the social and biological formations of bodies.

Examines the basic qualitative research methods used in sociological research with their weaknesses and strengths. Course covers qualitative data collection methods, ethnography, interview techniques, archive research methods, oral history, and document analysis methods.

Examines contemporary theoretical approaches that emerged after the Second World War as a follow up to classical sociological theories. Course presents different theoretical approaches including structuralism, post-structuralism, post-modernism, feminism, post-Marxism, and subaltern studies, by reading and discussing the work of most important figures of these fields.

:BODY POLITICS:Examination of the human body as a biological as well as social unit. Investigation of how society assigns meanings to the body as well as how individuals claim visibility and social participation through the body. Special attention to the social parameters and ideologies that serve to differentiate, categorize, and classify our bodies, such as race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and capitalism. Interdisciplinary perspectives to understanding the power dynamics inherent in the social and biological formations of bodies.

Covers the fields of classical and new economic sociology. Introduces the classical theoretical perspectives of Adam Smith, Max Weber and Karl Polanyi as well as recent conceptual debates about the character of markets, the informal economy, ethnic economies and networks.

Introduction to the predominant themes of discussion within the field of urban studies. Special emphasis on the impact of multiple processes of globalization on the city. Discussing the recent efforts of city marketing, urban regeneration projects, the rise of a new kind of poverty and growing inequalities within the city and practices of urban citizenship. Covering both theoretical and empirical aspects; current-day and prior debates; as well as examples from both the Turkish context and around the world.

Introduction to the predominant themes of discussion within the field of urban studies. Special emphasis on the impact of multiple processes of globalization on the city. Discussing the recent efforts of city marketing, urban regeneration projects, the rise of a new kind of poverty and growing inequalities within the city and practices of urban citizenship. Covering both theoretical and empirical aspects; current-day and prior debates; as well as examples from both the Turkish context and around the world.

Present realities of contemporary global migration in the context of social sciences. Critical analysis of the social problems such as social mobility, poverty, gender and education, inequality and citizenship as they relate to migration. Understanding the basic methods used for analysing migration related issues. Exploring fundamental consequences of migration for shaping social relations at local and global levels. Examination of social forces within the contexts of migration and migrant integration.

Present realities of contemporary global migration in the context of social sciences. Critical analysis of the social problems such as social mobility, poverty, gender and education, inequality and citizenship as they relate to migration. Understanding the basic methods used for analysing migration related issues. Exploring fundamental consequences of migration for shaping social relations at local and global levels. Examination of social forces within the contexts of migration and migrant integration.

Present realities of contemporary global migration in the context of social sciences. Critical analysis of the social problems such as social mobility, poverty, gender and education, inequality and citizenship as they relate to migration. Understanding the basic methods used for analysing migration related issues. Exploring fundamental consequences of migration for shaping social relations at local and global levels. Examination of social forces within the contexts of migration and migrant integration.

Present realities of contemporary global migration in the context of social sciences. Critical analysis of the social problems such as social mobility, poverty, gender and education, inequality and citizenship as they relate to migration. Understanding the basic methods used for analysing migration related issues. Exploring fundamental consequences of migration for shaping social relations at local and global levels. Examination of social forces within the contexts of migration and migrant integration.

An introductory exploration of state-society relations from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the questions of what the state is, what the society is, and what the relationship between the two is? The concept of citizenship and how the state relates to citizens through security forces, juridical system, social welfare, education, religion and culture. Working with examples from history, Türkiye and other countries.

An introduction to a scholarly study of popular culture, with the overall objective of illustrating how pop culture influences our attitudes and worldviews. Dissecting a variety of pop culture ?texts? such as cartoons, children?s literature, youtube videos, commercials, advertisements, websites, music videos, television, film and news broadcasts. Focusing on icons and imagery which address a global dimension of pop culture. Through the study of these pop culture ?texts,? as well as relevant readings and writing/homework assignments, students will learn to analyze different aspects of pop culture through a variety of more specific critical lenses (such as gender, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, beauty, etc).

The meaning of globalization; the global economic order; globalization, development and inequality, the global financial crisis of 2008; the future of the global trading order; globalization and new insecurities: migration, terrorism and environmental challenges; emerging powers; the rise of China and the new Russia-China axis; Türkiye in a shifting global context; the future of the European Union in the post-Brexit era; the future of American leadership; challenges to liberal democracy and the liberal international order.

Designed to introduce beginner learners to the four language skills?listening, speaking, reading and writing?and to the Spanish culture in order to develop basic communication in the target language. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, first half of level A1.