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1) |
• Describe the course.
• Get familiarized with the course books and extra reading materials.
• Introduce the course program.
• Inform on the grading and evaluation system.
• Define the concept of “modernization”.
• Introduce the content of the syllabus.
• List the course outline
• Explain the relevance of the course books and its authors.
• List extra course materials
• Explain the grading system evaluation methods.
• Discuss the daily and sociological meanings of the term “modern” and “modernization
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Review the Syllabus.
Read the assigned readings for next class session:
P. Nolte, “Modernization and Modernity in History,” International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2001, pp. 9954-9961
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2) |
• Define the term “modern”
• Describe the concept of “modernity”
• Define the concept of “modernization” and differentiate it from “modernity”
• Distinguish the paradigm of “modernization” in social sciences
• Discuss the synonyms of the term “modern”.
• Define the term “modern” as a historical and sociological concept
• Explain the concept of “modernity” as a historical and sociological concept
• Define the concept of “modernization” and differentiate it from the term “modernity”
• Explain the paradigm of “modernization” and its impact on social sciences
• Illustrate different concepts related with the term “modern”
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Read the assigned readings for next class session:
Samuel Huntington, Samuel P. Huntington, “The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Apr., 1971): 283-290.
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1961, p. 480-87.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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3) |
• Explain the roots of the modernization paradigm.
• Compare the theories of social change in the 19th century.
• List and analyze the characteristics of the modernization theory in the 20th century.
• Recognize the theorists of the modernization paradigm
• Explain the political context of the modernization paradigm.
• Explain the roots of the modernization paradigm in the 19th century
• Compare the social theories of social change as put forward by Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
• List and analyze the characteristics of the modernization theory as formulated in the 1950s.
• Recognize pioneers of the modernization theory.
• Discuss the political significance of the modernization approach.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Reşat Kasaba, “Kemalist Certainties and Modern Ambiguities,” Rethinking Modernity, Ch. 2, p. 15-36.
Levent Köker, Modernleşme, Kemalizm ve Demokrasi, İstanbul: İletişim, 2013, 14. baskı, s. 39-61.
Andrew Mango, “Atatürk,” Cambridge Hist. of Modern Turkey, p. 147-172.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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4) |
• Explain Turkish modernization in the light of modernization theory.
• Apply the stages of modernization to the Turkish case.
• Evaluate the Kemalist approach to modernization in consideration with the premises of the modernization theory.
• Discuss the advantages and the limits of the modernization theory.
• Familiarize with pioneering researchers who used modernization theory to study Turkish transformation
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Şevket Pamuk, “Economic Change in Twentieth-Century Turkey: Is the glass more than half full?” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, p. 266-300.
Andre Gunder Frank, “The development of underdevelopment”, Monthly Review, Vol. 18, 1966, pp. 17-31
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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5) |
• Identify the problems of economic development in the global capitalist system
• Define the concept of underdevelopment.
• Explain the Marxist critique of capitalist development.
• Analyze how dependency theory and world-system analysis approach modernization.
• Recognizes major theorists of the dependency theory.
• Analyze the relationship between the problems of economic development and underdevelopment and the global capitalism.
• Explain the Marxist critique of national development model in the 1960s.
• List the characteristics of dependency and world-system theories.
• Compare dependency and world-system theories with modernization theory
• Differentiate pioneers of dependency approach.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 264-273.
Çağlar Keyder, “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization,” State and Class in Turkey, London&New York: Verso, 1987, pp. 141-164.
Korkut Boratav, “İçe Dönük Bağımlı Genişleme (1962-1976) ve Yeni Bunalım (1977-1979), Türkiye İktisat Tarihi,1908-1985, s. 117-144.
Tanıl Bora, “68 Ruhu Nedir?,” Birikim, No: 109 (Mayıs 1998): 92-95.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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6) |
• Identify the problems of economic development and underdevelopment in Turkey
• Apply the concepts of center and periphery to the Turkish case.
• Explain the Marxist critique of national development model in Turkey.
• Discuss the relation between Kemalism and socialism in Turkey.
• Familiarize with researchers who dealt with the problem of underdevelopment in Turkey.
• Explain the problems of economic development and underdevelopment as formulated in the Turkish context
• Discuss how the center-periphery paradigm can explain underdevelopment of and in Turkey.
• Recognize the Marxist critique of national development model in the 1960s.
• Analyze the roots of the alliance between Kemalism and socialism in Turkey.
• Recognize researchers who worked on underdevelopment in Turkey.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 306-315.
Arif Dirlik, “The Postmodernization of Production and its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture,” Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997, p. 186-219.
Alev Özkazanç, “Türkiye’nin Neo-liberal Dönüşümü ve Liberal Düşünce,” Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce Cilt 7/ Liberalizm, İstanbul: İletişim, 2005, s. 634-657.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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7) |
• Analyze the characteristics of neo-liberalism
• Explain the global economic developments giving rise to the neo-liberal theories.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the neo-liberal approach.
• Compare neo-liberal theory with dependency theory and modernization theory
• Familiarize with theorists of neo-liberalism.
• Analyze the characteristics of neo-liberalism as formulated by its major theorists
• List global economic developments giving rise to the neo-liberal theories.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the neo-liberal approach.
• Contrast neo-liberal theory with the previous theories of dependency modernization theory.
• Differentiate researchers who defended neo-liberalism.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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8) |
• Analyze the place of Turkey in the context of global capitalism.
• Explain the economic policies of the 1980s.
• Compare the economic policies of the previous period with the neo-liberal period in the 1980s.
• Explain the impact of the neo-liberal theory in Turkey.
• Discuss the role of Özal in the institutionalization of neo-liberalism.
• Analyze the socio-economic development of Turkey in the context of globalization.
• Differentiate the import substitution industrialization policies of the previous period with the new neo-liberal orientation in the 1980s.
• Explain the economic policies of the 1980s and the Decisions of January 24.
• Explain the impact of the neo-liberal theory in Turkey.
• Discuss the role of Özal and the shift in social values.
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9) |
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the basic assumptions of the modernization theory
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the critiques of the modernization theory
• Overview of the first part of the course
• Compare different theoretical paradigms on modernization
• Relate theories of development with historical developments in Turkey.
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the progressive, unilinear, Eurocentric, stage theory of history intrinsic the modernization paradigm.
• Evaluate students via midterm exam: measure the capacity to explain the departing points of the Marxist critique of the modernization theory
• Overview of the first eight weeks of the course
• Compare the main characteristics of modernization theory, dependency theory and neo-liberal theory.
• Relate these different theories of development with concrete historical developments in Turkey
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Read the assigned reading for next class session:
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p. 242-264, 278-288.
Ümit Cizre, “Ideology, Context and Interest: The Turkish Military,” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, in The Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World, 2009
p. 301-332.
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10) |
• Explain the relation between the army and modernization in Turkey
• Analyze the role of the army in politics.
• Describe the logic of military interventions in Turkey.
• Differentiate between the characteristics of different coups.
• Explain the change in the relationship between military and politics in the 2000s.
• Discuss the importance of the army’s role in modernization of Turkey.
• List the causes of central role of the army in Turkish political history.
• Discuss the logic of different military interventions in Turkey in succeeding periods.
• List the political differences of military coups of 1960 and 1980.
• Discuss how the relationship between military and politics changed in the process of democratization.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012 p.316-323.
Hamit Bozarslan, “Kurds and the Turkish State,” Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, 2009, p. 333-356.
Ayşe Hür, “Bu kaçıncı isyan, bu kaçıncı harekât?” Radikal, 23.12.2007.
Mesut Yeğen, “The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse,” Journal of Contemporary History, 34 (4) 1999: 555-568.
Martin van Bruinessen, “The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38)” http://www.let.uu.nl/~martin.vanbruinessen/personal/
publications/Dersim_rebellion.pdf
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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11) |
• Explain nationalism as a modern phenomenon.
• Recognize the impact of modernization in the formation of national identity.
• Explain the consequences of modernization for the demographic structure.
• Analyze the discourses of Turkish nationalism in the Young Turk and Kemalist eras.
• Discuss Turkish nationalism with respect to the Kurdish issue.
• List and explain modernist theories of nationalism which describe the latter as a modern phenomenon.
• Analyze the relation between the formation of national identity and modernization
• Recognize the consequences of modernization understood as national homogenization.
• Compare the Turkist policies of the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes.
• Explain the impact of Turkish nationalism with reference the state’s discourse on the Kurdish uprisings.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Ayhan Aktar, “Türkiye'de Gayrimüslimler: ‘Kâğıt Üzerinde’ Vatandaşlar,” in Fuat Keyman, ed., Türkiye’nin Yeniden İnşası: Modernleşme, Demokratikleşme, Kimlik, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2013, p. 175–188.
Çağlar Keyder, “The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for Turkey,” in Renée Hirschon (ed.), Crossing the Aegean: an appraisal of the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, New York: Berghahn Books, 2004, p. 39-52.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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12) |
• Analyze the legal definition of “minority” in Turkey.
• Explain the impact of nationalism on non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• Illustrate official policies towards non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• Analyze the relation between national identity and discriminatory policies against non-Muslims.
• Discuss the relationship between democracy and minority rights.
• Recognize the importance Lausanne Treaty in the legal definition of “minority” in Turkey.
• Evaluate the impact of nationalist policies on the rights of non-Muslim minorities in Turkey.
• List official policies towards non-Muslim minorities in Turkey: Lausanne Treaty; Greek-Turkish population exchange; Welfare Tax; 6-7 September Events; 1964 Law of expatriation of Greeks.
• Analyze the relation between national identity and discriminatory policies against non-Muslims.
• Recognize the developments concerning minority rights and democratization.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2012, p. 288-306.
Haldun Gülalp, “Modernization Policies and Islamist Politics in Turkey,” Rethinking Modernity, p. 53-63.
Nilüfer Göle, “The Quest for the Islamic Self within the Context of Modernity,” Rethinking Modernity, p. 83-95.
Yüksel Taşkın, “AKP’s move to ‘conquer’ the center-right: its prospects and possible impacts on the democratization process,” Turkish Studies 9, No. 1 (March 2008): 53–72.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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13) |
• Define the concepts secularization and secularism.
• Analyze the role of secularism in Turkish modernization
• Explain the peculiarities of Turkish secularism.
• Compare Turkish secularism with French and Anglo-Saxon models of secularism.
• Analyze the debate between secularists and Islamists in Turkey.
• Explain the meanings of the concepts “secularization” and “secularism”
• Differentiate secularism from secularization as a sociological process.
• Discuss the central role of secularism for Turkish modernization
• Analyze the specific characteristics of secularism in Turkey: “Laiklik”
• Differentiate Turkish, French and Anglo-Saxon models of secularism.
• Discuss the conflict between secularists and Islamists in Turkey, by focusing on the headscarf debate.
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Read the assigned reading for next class session.
Yeşim Arat, “The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey,” Rethinking Modernity, 1997, p. 95-112.
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Gendering Modernity: On Missing Dimensions of Turkish Modernity,” Rethinking Modernity, 1997, p. 113-132.
Write a report on the documentary until the next week.
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• Define “gender” as an analytical concept.
• Explain the link between women’s movement and modernization.
• Explain the need for a “gendered” perspective in the study of Turkish modernization.
• Analyze the feminist critique of Turkish modernization.
• Compare Kemalist and 2nd wave Turkish feminisms.
• Discuss how the concept of “gender” can be a tool of analysis.
• Discuss the critical role of women’s movement for modernization.
• Recognize the importance of a feminist approach in the study of Turkish modernization.
• Explain how Turkish modernization process was criticized by feminists in the 1980s.
• Discuss how Kemalist and 2nd wave Turkish feminisms approach the state feminism of the Kemalist era.
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15) |
• Summarize the content of the course.
• List the potential themes on which term papers can be written.
• Explain the methodology of the research needed for writing the term paper.
• List the format rules of the paper.
• Discuss how and which materials will be used while writing the paper.
• Review the weekly themes of the course.
• Discuss the possible topics on which term papers can be written.
• Recognize the oral history methodology needed for writing the term paper.
• List the tips for a good interview.
• Explain the style of language used in the paper and the format.
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