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COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
Spring
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
Course Type
Required
Course Level
-
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Discussion
Case Study
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • will be able to explain the various sociological theories that can be used to explain the developments in urban life.
  • will be able to explain the rise modern city life and spatial practices with its main problems like segregation and ghettoization.
  • will be able to analyze the development of urban communities.
  • will be able to discuss the characteristics of city life and spatial practices with their economic, political or aesthetic aspects.
  • will be able to evaluate the differentiation of city experience according to categories like class, ethnicity or gender.
Course Description

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Presentation and overview of the course Neil Brenner, 2012, “What is critical urban theory?” in Cities For People, Not For Profit, 11-23
2 Emergence of Cities and Industrial Revolution Mark Gottdiener & Ray Hutchison, 2006, The New Urban Sociology, Westview Press, Ch2 (21-41) – Suggested: Ferdinand Töennies, “On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft,” in PUS,92-99 -Emile Durkheim, “On Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity,” in PUS, 100-108 -Max Weber, “The Nature of the City,” in PUS 109-125 -Friedrich Engels, “The Great Towns,” in PUS 126-133 -Suggested: Berlin: Symphony of a Great City by Walter Ruttmann (1927)
3 The Rise of Urban Sociology Chicago School, Urbanism and Urban Ecology Mark Gottdiener & Ray Hutchison, The New Urban Sociology, 2006, Westview Press, Ch3 –Suggested: George Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, in TUSR, (23-31) -Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life” in TUSR (32-41) -Herbert Gans, “Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life” in TUSR, (42-50)
4 Urban Political Economy -Mark Gottdiener & Ray Hutchison, 2006, The New Urban Sociology, Westview Press, Ch4 -Harvey, The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis, in TBCR (32-39), Suggested: Manuel Castells,2001, “The Urban Ideology” in The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory, Blackwell, Oxford. (34-44) -Henri Lefebvre, 1991, the Production of Space, selections :Kurt Meyer, 2008, “Rhythms, Streets, Cities, in Space, Difference, Everyday Life, Reading Henri Lefebvre ed. by.K. Goonewardena
5 Globalization and Neo-liberalism Saskia Sassen, The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization, in TUSR - Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore,2002, Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” Antipode, 33(3): 349–79. Suggested: Michael Peter Smith, Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global, in TUSR - -Manuel Castells, “An Introduction to the Information Age” in TBCR (40-48)
6 Urban Enclaves and Segregation Mark Hutter, 2011, Experiencing Cities, Chapter 11 - Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Fortcified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation, in TUSR – Suggested: Neil Smith, 2002, New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy, Antipode, 33(3): 427-450 --Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy,(2000), Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul in A Companion to the City, ed. By. G. Bridge & S. Watson, -Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson, The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City in TUSR
7 Midterm I
8 Urbanization in non-Western Countries Mark Gottdiener & Ray Hutchison, 2006, The New Urban Sociology Ch. 13 -Ayşe Buğra 1998, The Immoral Economy of Housing in Turkey, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 303–307 –Suggested: Ayşe Öncü,1999, “Istanbulites and Others: The Cultural Cosmology of ‘Middleness’ in the Era of Neo- Liberalism”, in Istanbul Between the Global and The Local, , ed. by. C. Keyder New York: St. Documentary: Ekümenopolis by İmre Azem
9 Public Space David Harvey, 2006,“The Poltical Economy of Public Space” in The Politics of Public Space, New York:Routledge -Richard Sennett 1989, “Civitas of Seeing”, Places, 5(4) -Richard Sennett, 1992, The Fall of Public Man, Selections –Suggested: Mike Davis, 1992, “Fortress LA” in Variations on A Theme Park, ed. By M. Sorkin -Henri Lefebvre, 1996, Writings on Cities, selections “The Right to The City”
10 Urban Enclaves and Ghettos Mark Hutter, 2011, Experiencing Cities, Chapter 10 -Foucault, Panopticism, Discipline and Punish, 195-228 – Suggested: Hille Koskela, 2000, The gaze without eyes’: video-surveillance and the changing nature of urban space, -Steve Herbert, 2006, Conceptions of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City, Antipode Term-paper progress report (2nd May)
11 Urban Social Movements Manuel Castells,2003, “Social Movements and Organizations” in Conversations with Manuel Castells, Polity: Cambridge (59-66) -Leontidou L (2006) Urban social movements: From the ‘right to the city’ to transnational spatialities and flaneur activists. City 10(3):259–268 -Arjun Appadurai, 2010, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger in TBCR.
12 Gendered City -Sophie Watson, 2010, City A/Genders, in TBCR -Dolores Hayden, What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work, Signs, Vol. 5, No. 3, Sy Adler, & Johanna Brenner, Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City in TUSR- Suggested: Doren Massey, The gendering of Space, in The anthropology of space and place: locating culture, edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga -Huppard, P. 2004, Revenge and Injustice in the Neoliberal City: Uncovering Masculinist Agenda, Antipode, 36:4
13 City and Consumption Mark Hutter, 2011, Experiencing Cities, Chapter 14 - Feyzan Erkip, 2003, The shopping mall as an emergent public space in Turkey, Environment and Planning A 35(6) 1073 – 1093 –Suggested: Sharon Zukin, 1998, Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardisation in Spaces of Consumption, Urban Studies, Vol. 35-5
14 Review of the semester Sharon Zukin, Whose Culture? Whose City?, in TUSR -Neil Brenner, 2012, “What is critical urban theory?” in Cities For People, Not For Profit, 11-23
15 Review of the Semester  
16 Final
Course Notes/Textbooks PUS: Perspectives on Urban Society: Preindustrial to Postindustrial, 2006, ed.by Efren N. Padilla, Pearson:New York.\nTUSR: The Urban Sociology Reader,2005, ed. By Jan Lin & Christopher Mele, Routledge, London.\nTBCR: The Blackwell City Reader ed.by G. Bridge, S. Watson, Wiley-Blackwell:Chichester
Suggested Readings/Materials Additional readings may be assigned during the semester

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
2
25
Presentation / Jury
1
10
Project
1
35
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
1
30
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
65
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
35
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

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
14
4
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
2
12
Presentation / Jury
1
14
Project
1
20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
1
16
Final Exams
    Total
178

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1 To be able to scientifically examine concepts and ideas in the field of sociology; to be able to interpret and evaluate data. X
2 To be able to define classical and contemporary theories in sociology; to be able to identify the differences and similarities among those theories and to be able to evaluate them. X
3 To be able to critically use the knowledge acquired in the field of sociology X
4 To be able to plan and conduct, individually or as a member of a team, an entire sociological research process with the knowledge of methodological requirements of the field. X
5 To be able to identify and evaluate local, regional and global issues and problems. X
6 To be able to share their ideas and solutions supplemented by qualitative and quantitative data in written and oral forms. X
7 To be able to make use of other disciplines related to sociology and to have core knowledge related to those disciplines.
8 To be able to follow developments in sociology and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale,” Level B1) X
9 To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advancedlevel computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level) X
10 To be able to use a second foreign language at the intermediate level.
11 To have social and scholarly values and ethical principles during the collection and interpretation of data for implementation, publication, dissemination, and maintenance X
12 To acquire life long learning abilities that will enable the socially responsible application of knowledge based on their field of study to their professional and everyday lives. X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 

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