Course Name | Technology and Changing Society |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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SOC 350 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | - | |||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | The goal of this course is to develop sociological perspective about the relationship between technology and society.\n\n |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course covers major sociological tools to understand technology, technology-society relationship and the changing role of technological systems in society. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals |
| Core Courses | |
Major Area Courses | X | |
Supportive Courses | ||
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction | |
2 | Sources of Technological Change | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. Macmillan. CH.3. pp.41-59. |
3 | The Social Construction of Technology | Nightingale, P. (2014). What is technology? Six definitions and two pathologies. Six Definitions and Two Pathologies (October 10, 2014). SWPS, 19. Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts have Politics?,” Ch.2 in The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (University of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 19-39. Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker, “The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or, How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Bijker, Hughes & Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, (MIT Press, 1987), p. 17-50. |
4 | Technology as Social Force | Nightingale, P. (2014). What is technology? Six definitions and two pathologies. Six Definitions and Two Pathologies (October 10, 2014). SWPS, 19. Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts have Politics?,” Ch.2 in The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (University of Chicago Press, 1986), p. 19-39. Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker, “The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or, How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Bijker, Hughes & Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, (MIT Press, 1987), p. 17-50. |
5 | Technologies of Control | Sally Wyatt, “Non-Users Also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non-Users of the Internet,” in: Pinch and Oudshoorn, Eds., How Users Matter (MIT Press, 2003): 67-80. |
6 | Critical Theories on Technology | Wendling, A. (2009). Karl Marx on technology and alienation. Springer. Feenberg, A. (2012). Questioning technology. Routledge. |
7 | Work in Nonindustrial Societies | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. Macmillan. CH.9-10 |
8 | Review /Midterm | |
9 | Technology and Communication | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. Macmillan. CH.12 |
10 | Technology and Communication | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. Macmillan. CH.13-14 |
11 | Organizations and Technological Change | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. Macmillan. CH.19 |
12 | Gender and Technology | Lee Kleinman, D. (2005) Science and Technology in Society. Blackwell. CH.6 |
13 | Democracy and Citizenship in High Tech Age | Lee Kleinman, D. (2005) Science and Technology in Society. Blackwell. CH.7 |
14 | Algorithms in Society | Gillespie, Tarleton. 2013. “The Relevance of Algorithms.” Pp. 167-194 in Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P. J., & Foot, K. A. (Eds.). (2014). Media technologies: Essays on communication, materiality, and society. MIT Press. |
15 | Algorithms and the self | Cheney-Lippold, John. 2011. ”A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control.” Theory, Culture & Society 28 (6): 164-181. |
16 | Discussion of Group Projects |
Course Notes/Textbooks |
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Suggested Readings/Materials | Volti, R. (2005). Society and technological change. NY: Macmillan. |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | ||
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 |
Project | 1 | 30 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 60 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | |||
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 25 | |
Project | 1 | 27 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | |||
Final Exams | 1 | 35 | |
Total | 180 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | |||||
2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | X | ||||
3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | X | ||||
5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | |||||
6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | X | ||||
8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | X | ||||
11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest