| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | İKT1042017201 | SOCIOLOGY OF ECONOMICS | Compulsory | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| First Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| the application of the frames of reference, variables, and explanatory models of sociology to that complex of activities which is concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of scarce goods and services. |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
| Yrd.Doç.Dr. Fatma Özlem Tezcek |
| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Re-examine economic issues via sociological perspective and using the concepts and methods of sociology during this examination processes | | 2 | Question economic models via alternative perspectives | | 3 | Understand the Necessary evaluation of economic phenomenons such as production, consumption, distribution periodically | | 4 | | | 5 | |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Formal Education |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| None |
| Course Contents |
| can be defined simply as the sociological perspective applied to economic phenomena. |
| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | Foundational Statements 1: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith | | | | 2 | Foundational Statements 2: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx | | | | 3 | Foundational Statements 3: Religious Ethics and Economic Rationality: Max Weber
Foundational Statements 4: Great Transformation: Karl Polanyi | | | | 4 | Economic Action 1:
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness | | | | 5 | Economic Action 2:
Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street
Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street | | | | 6 | Economic Action 3:
Auctions: The Social Construction of Value
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The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions | | | | 8 | mid-term exam | | | | 9 | Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets
Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions | | | | 10 | Economic Culture and the Culture of the Economy
The Forms of Capital: Pierre Bourdieu | | | | 11 | Informal Sector/Economy | | | | 12 | Feminism and Economics
Feminism As a Social Theory and Social Methodology | | | | 13 | Sexuality and Gender
Private Sphere and Public Sphere | | | | 14 | Fordism and Post-fordism 1:
Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Fordism | | | | 15 | Fordism and Post-fordism 2:
The Crisis of Fordism and the Rise of POst-fordism... | | | | 16 | final exam | | |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg EDITORS,(2005) The Handbook of Economic Sociolgy, Princeton University Press.
Nicole Woolsey Biggart EDITED, (2002), Readings in Economic Sociology, Blackwell Publishers.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| SUM | 0 | |
| SUM | 0 | | Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri | 40 | | Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri | 60 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | Turkish | | Work Placement(s) | | None |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Attending Lectures | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Field Work | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Individual Study for Final Examination | 18 | 1 | 18 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | | LO2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | | LO3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | | LO4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | | LO5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
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| * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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