| Course Name | Power and Social Control |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 421 | 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 Objectives | The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools necessary for the analysis of power and social control. It focuses on the main theoretical approaches to power and social control as well as various manifestations of domination, subjugation, and repression. It also focuses on the control mechanism and the surveillance in democratic societies. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course examines power and social control. It deals with various conceptualizations of power, showing how they have changed historically. It also focuses on changing forms and mechanisms of social control. In doing this, it shows how the changing forms and technologies of social control influence social life. It pays particular attention to the influences of social control on different social sectors. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction and Overview of the Course | |
| 2 | Power: Three Dimensions of Power | Lukes, Steven. “Power: A Radical View” In S. Lukes, Power: A Radical View, pp. 14-59. |
| 3 | Power as Domination and Manipulaton | Mills, C.W. (1939[1963]). Language, logic and culture, in Horowitz, I.L., Power, Politics and People. The Collected Essays of C.W. Mills, New York: Oxford University Press, 423-438. ISBN: 978-0-1950-0752-7 Marcuse, H. (1964). The new forms of control, in Marcuse, H., One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Boston: Beacon Press, 1-18. |
| 4 | Power and Truth Power and Subject | Foucault, Michel. 1973. Discipline and Punish (Penguin). (‘Panopticism’): 195-203. Foucault, Michel. 1990. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Volume 1: 36-49; 92- 102; 135-141. |
| 5 | Biopower and Biopolitics | Chloe Taylor, “Biopower,” in Dianna Taylor, ed. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Acumen, 2011: 41-54 Foucault, M. 2003 “Society must be Defended”. Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976. New York: Picador. 239-63. |
| 6 | Governmentality | Foucault, Michel. 2007. Security, Territory, Population, New York, Palgrave, Ch. 4 Foucault, Michel. 2008 The Birth of Biopolitics. New York: Palgrave, Ch. 1. Rose, N. and P. Miller. 1992. ‘Political power beyond the state; problematics of government’, British Journal of Sociology 43(2): 173-205. |
| 7 | Governmentality | Agamben, G. (2005). The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government, in Agamben, G., State of Exception, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1-31. |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | State of Exception | Agamben, G. (2005). The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government, in Agamben, G., State of Exception, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1-31. |
| 10 | State of Exception | Mbembe, Achille, (2019), Necropolitics, Durham: Duke University Press. ICh. 3. Suggested reading Larsen, M. and J. Piché (2009). Exceptional State, Pragmatic Bureaucracy, and Indefinite Detention: The Case of the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 24(2), 203-229. |
| 11 | Surveillance | Surveillance: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), Soshana Zuboff, Public Affairs books.Chpt.1 Suggested reading Wall, T. and T. Monahan (2011). Surveillance and Violence from Afar: The Politics of Drones and Liminal Security Scapes, Theoretical Criminology, 15, 239-254. Stephen Owen (2017) Monitoring social media and protest movements: ensuring political order through surveillance and surveillance discourse, Social Identities, 23:6, 688-700. |
| 12 | Surveillance | Qiang, Xiao. "The road to digital unfreedom: President Xi's surveillance state." Journal of Democracy 30.1 (2019): 53-67. Lianos, M. (2003). Social Control after Foucault, Surveillance & Society, 1 (3), 412-430 Suggested reading Deleuze, Gilles (1992), Postscript on the societies of control, October, Volume 59, pp. 3-7. Link: Postscript on the Societies of Control.pdf (umb.edu) Noah McClain (2018) The horizons of technological control: automated surveillance in the New York subway, Information, Communication & Society, 21:1, 46-62. |
| 13 | Repression | Earl, J., (2003). Tanks, tear gas and taxes: toward a theory of movement repression. Sociological Theory 21 (1), 44–68. Suggested reading Davenport, Christian. "State repression and political order." Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 10 (2007): 1-23. Flesher Fominaya, C., Wood, L., 2011. Editorial: repression and social movements. Interface 3 (1), 1–11. |
| 14 | Repression | Young, Iris Marion. "Five faces of oppression." Rethinking power (2014): 174-195. Suggested reading Jules Boykoff (2007) Limiting Dissent: The Mechanisms of State Repression in the USA, Social Movement Studies, 6:3, 281-310, |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| 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 | 20 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 27 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
| 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. | X | ||||
| 2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | |||||
| 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. | X | ||||
| 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. | 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. | |||||
| 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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