| Course Name | Social Movements |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 423 | 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 | This course aims to introduce major sociological concepts and debates about the formation, dynamics and consequences of social movements. In order to help students learn to use the main concepts and theories to analyze social movements, it also focuses on the waves of social movements and protests that have emerged since the 1960s. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course deals with social movements and protests. It, first, introduces the main social movement theories that have been formulated to make sense of the social movements generated since the mid-twentieth century. Then, by employing the insights of these theories, it examines the waves of movements and protests that marked their imprint on the social world since the 1960s. It tries to understand how these waves of movements were mobilized within specific socio-political contexts, which social groups were the main constituents of these movements, and to what extent they produced social, economic, political and cultural effects. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction and Overview of the Course | |
| 2 | Definition of Social Movements Formation of Social movements | Staggenborg, Suzanne. 2012. Social Movements. Second Edition. “Introduction” (pp. 1-9) Charles Tilly. |
| 3 | Social Movement Theories | Dana Moss and David Snow 2016: “Theorizing Social Movements” Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh. 2006. Social Movements in Politics, Chapter 1. |
| 4 | Resource Mobilization and Political Process Theories | McCarthy, John, and Mayer Zald 1977. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory,” American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241. McAdam, Doug. (1982). “Political Process Model” Pp. 36-59 in Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency 1930-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. McAdam, Doug. 1996. “Conceptual Origins, Current Problems, Future Directions,” in Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Cambridge University Press. |
| 5 | New Social Movement Theory | Jurgen Habermas. 2011. ‘New Social Movements’ in C. Zirakzadeh(ed.) Social and Political Movements. Melucci, Alberto (1995a). “The New Social Movements Revisited,” in Louis Maheu, ed., Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Collective Action. London: Sage Klaus Eder. 2011. ‘The 'New Social Movements': Moral crusades, political pressure groups, or social movements’, in C. Zirakzadeh(ed.) Social and Political Movements. |
| 6 | New Social Movement Theory | Klaus Eder. 2011. ‘The 'New Social Movements': Moral crusades, political pressure groups, or social movements’, in C. Zirakzadeh(ed.) Social and Political Movements. |
| 7 | Marxist Social Movement Theory | Barker, C., Cox, L., Krinsky, J. & Nilsen, A. G. (2013) ‘Marxism and social movements: an introduction’, in Marxism and Social Movements, eds C. Barker, L. Cox, J. Krinsky & A. Nilsen, Brill, Leiden, pp. 1–37. Cox, L. & Nilsen, A. G. (2014) We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism, Pluto, London. |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | Protest Waves of 1960s | Robert Gildea and James Mark. 2013. ‘Introduction’, 1- 20 and ‘Conclusion: Europe’s 68’ 326- 338 in R Gildea, J Mark, A Warring Eurpe’s 68: Voices of Revolt. |
| 10 | Protest Waves of 1960s | Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth1968 in Europe: An Introduction 1- 12. In M Klimke and J Scharloth (eds) 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977. Tom Hayden The Future of 1968’s “Restless Youth” 325- 332. In M Klimke and J Scharloth (eds) 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977. |
| 11 | Environmental Movement | Timothy Doyle. 2005. Environmental Movement in Minority and Majority Worlds. Chapter 1. Christopher Roots. 2008. ‘The Environmental Movement’ in M Klimke and J Scharloth (eds) 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977 |
| 12 | Globalization and Social Movements | Christina Flesher Fominaya. 2020. ‘Globalization and Social Movements’, Chapter 2. |
| 13 | Contemporary Waves of Protest: Square Movements | Castaneda, E. (2012) ‘The indignados of Spain: a precedent to occupy wall street’, Social Movement Studies, vol. 11, no. 3–4, pp. 309–319. Hayriye Özen (2015) An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and Their Aftermath, South European Society and Politics, 20:4, 533-552. Castells, M. (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, Polity. Cambridge. Christina Flesher Fominaya. 2020. ‘Movements after the Crash: A Global Wave of Protest’, Chapter 7. Gerbaudo, P. (2014) ‘Populism 2.0’, in Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, eds C. Fuchs & D. Trottier, Routledge, London, pp. 16, 67. |
| 14 | Contemporary Movements Changing Forms of Activism | |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
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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. | 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. | 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. | 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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