| Course Name | Everyday Life |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 355 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to explore the sociology of everyday life both in theory and empirical researches by making the familiar strange from a critical perspective. It focusses on different theoretical approaches as well as various researches examining the construction of “everydayness” to question the connectedness of individual-social, micro-macro. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Presentation and overview of the course | |
| 2 | Sociology of everyday life | Ben Highmore, Everyday life as a critical concept” in Everyday Life, ed.by Ben Highmore, 1-16 |
| 3 | Presentation of Self | Erving Goffman, Presentation of Self, selections Erving Goffman, Stigma, selections |
| 4 | Civilizing Process and Informalization | Norbert Elias, Civilizing Process, selections. Norbert Elias, Germans, selections |
| 5 | Rhythm and Awareness about Moments | Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, selections Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life, selections |
| 6 | Making Do | Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, selections |
| 7 | Disciplinary Power | Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, selections Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume One: An Introduction |
| 8 | Habitus | Pierre Bourdieu, On Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology, selections. Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, selections |
| 9 | MIDTERM | |
| 10 | The Borders of Everyday Life | Claire Colebrook, The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life in Everday Life, ed.by. Ben Highmore, Volume I, 307-325 Adriana Johnson, Everdayness and Subalternity in Everday Life, ed.by. Ben Highmore Volume I, 345-360 |
| 11 | Home and Everyday Life | Tonny Bennett, Home and Everyday Life in in Understanding everyday life, ed.by T. Bennett and D. Watson, 1-50 Robert M. Rakoff, Ideology in Everday Life, in Everday Life, ed.by. Ben Highmore, volume III, 181-198 |
| 12 | The street and Urban Life | Peter Hamilton, The street and everyday life, in Understanding everyday life, ed.by T. Bennett and D. Watson, 91-138 Allan Pred, Social Reproduction and time-geography of everyday Life in Everday Life, ed.by. Ben Highmore, volume III, 23-51 |
| 13 | Everyday Life and Economy | Celia Lury, Everyday Life and Economy in Understanding everyday life, ed.by T. Bennett and D. Watson, 139-182 |
| 14 | Everyday Aesthetics | Yuriko Saito, Everyday Aesthetics, in Everday Life, ed.by. Ben Highmore, volume III, 423- 430 |
| 15 | Semester Review | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
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| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 65 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 14 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 32 | |
| Total | 174 |
| # | 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. | X | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | |||||
| 7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
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