SOS319 Society and Eveyday Life PracticesIstanbul Okan UniversityDegree Programs SociologyGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational Qualifications
Sociology
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

General course introduction information

Course Code: SOS319
Course Name: Society and Eveyday Life Practices
Course Semester: Fall
Course Credits:
Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
3 0 3 5
Language of instruction: TR
Course Requisites:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Department Elective
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. ESRA KÖTEN
Course Lecturer(s):
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: This course equips students with the ability to analyze contemporary debates about the social organization of daily life by looking at places familiar and familiar to everyone - the home, the street, the neighborhood.

Course Content: It reveals and analyzes the pattern of social processes and structures influencing students' own lives, from private space to work, consumption and neighborhood, with theoretical and practical readings.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Learning Outcomes
1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) Recognizes and identifies globalization as both a phenomenon and a problem with a broadest and comprehensive view.
2) Underlines late-capitalism characterized with the extensive use of high-technology at the expense of manual labor and with the priority of consumption.
3) Identifies and discusses mass culture.
4) Explores the dynamics and experiences of everyday life through the readings and discussions of reading materials in the related sociological texts.
5) Discuss the ways in which everyday life is made, remade, managed and pursued by people.
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Lesson Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) A general introduction Course Syllabus
2) Class, house and city in everyday life
3) Gender in everyday life
4) Gender in everyday life
5) Women, men, love and sexuality
6) Shopping, consumption
7) Eat and drink in everyday life
8) Midterm
9) Clothes and finery
10) Music
11) Sports
12) Communication and entertainment
13) Religion
14) Theories and examples
15) Final exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Ocak, Ersan, “Yoksulun Evi”, Yoksulluk Halleri, İletişim, 2007, ss: 89-115.
Ayata, Sencer, “Kentsel orta sınıf ailelerde statü yarışması ve salon kullanımı”, Toplum ve Bilim: 42, 1988, ss. 5-25.
Özyeğin, Gül, Kapıcılar, Gündelikçiler ve Ev Sahipleri, Kültür Fragmanları, Deniz Kandiyoti ve Ayşe Saktanber (der.), Metis, 2003, ss. 57-83
Sencer Ayata, Yeni Orta Sınıf ve Uydu Kent Yaşamı, Kültür Fragmanları, Deniz Kandiyoti ve Ayşe Saktanber (der.), Metis, 2003, ss. 37-56.
Gündelik hayatta toplumsal cinsiyet
Toplumsal Cinsiyeti Anlamak
Ayşe Durakbaşa ve Dilek Cindoğlu, Tezgah Üstü Karşılaşmalar: Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Alışveriş Deneyimi, Kültür Fragmanları, Deniz Kandiyoti ve Ayşe Saktanber (der.), Metis, 2003, ss. 84-100.
Susan Willis, “Evcilik Oyunu”, Gündelik Hayat Kılavuzu,
Tayfun Atay, “Postmodern Cinsiyetler”, Yaşasın Meşhuriyet (içinde), ss. 127-151.
Pınar İlkkaracan, Müslüman Toplumlarda Kadın ve Cinsellik, İletişim.
Serpil Sancar, Erkeklik: İmkansız İktidar: Ailede, Pitasada, Sokakta Erkekler, Metis.
Deborah Lupton, Duygusal Yaşantı: Sosyo-Kültürel Bir İnceleme, Ayrıntı.
Pınar Selek, Sürüne Sürüne Erkek Olmak, İletişim.
Süleyman İrvan ve Mutlu Binark (der.), Kadın ve Popüler kültür, Ark.
Zygmunt Bauman, Akışkan Aşk, Versus.
Tayfun Atay, Çin İşi Japon İşi, İletişim.
Cogito Sayı 4:Aşk
Doğu-Batı Sayı 26: Aşk ve Doğu
Doğu-Batı Sayı 27: Aşk ve Batı
Burcu Sabuncuoğlu Peksevgen vd., Kavramdan Pratiğe, Medya ve Tüketim, Libra.
Emrah Tuncer, Kibele, İktidarın Mekansal Örgütlenmesi: İktidarın Mekansal Fantazmagorisi Olarak İstanbul'daki Büyük Alışveriş Merkezleri
Yavuz Odabaşı, Tüketim Kültürü, Sistem.
Alan Beardsworth, Yemek Sosyolojisi, Phoenix.
Erhan Akarçay, Beslencenin Sosyolojisi, Phoenix.
George Ritzer, Toplumun McDonaldlaştırılması, Ayrıntı, 1998.
Eric Schlosser, Hamburger Cumhuriyeti, Metis, 2004.
Ayşen Utanır, Gaziantep’te Yemek ve Mutfağın Toplumsal Üretimi: Et ve Mutluluk, Yerli ve Milli Gündelik Hayat, Mesut Yücebaş (der.), İletişim, 2016, ss. 153-165.
Elise Ricadat ve Lydia Taieb, Üzerime Giyecek Hiçbir Şeyim Yok!, İletişim.
Diana Crane, Moda ve Gündemleri, Ayrıntı.
D.Waquet ve M. Laporte, Moda, Dost.
Martin Stokes, Türkiye’de Arabesk Olayı, İletişim.
Güneş Ayas, Müzik Sosyolojisi, Doğu Kitabevi.
Meral Özbek, Popüler Kültür ve Orhan Gencebay Arabeski, İletişim.
Ömer miraç Yaman, Apaçi Gençlik, Açılım Kitap.
Tanıl Bora, Wolgang Reiter, Roman Horak (Der), Futbol ve Kültürü: Takımlar, Taraftarlar, Endüstri, Efsaneler, İletişim.
Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı: 103 (Spor: Oyun Değil Ciddi İş)
Neil Postman, Televizyon: Öldüren Eğlence, Ayrıntı, 1998.
Umut Yener Kaya, Kimlik Oyunu: Video Oyunları, Yeni Medya ve Kimlik, İletişim.
M. Emre Köksalan, “Post-Televizyon ve Gündelik Hayat”, Yerli ve Milli Gündelik Hayat, Mesut Yücebaş (der.), İletişim, 2016, ss. 255-302.
Nilüfer Göle, Modern Mahrem, Metis.
Tayfun Atay, Din Hayattan Çıkar, İletişim.
Fatma Karabıyık Barbarosoğlu, Şov ve Mahrem, Timaş.
Doğu Batı Sayı 15: Popüler Kültür
Rıfat N. Bali, Tarz-ı Hayattan Life Style’a, İletişim.
Ayfer Tunç, Bir Maniniz Yoksa Annemler Size Gelecek: 70li Yıllarda Hayatımız, Can.
Can Kozanoğlu, Yeni Şehir Notları, İletişim.
Mesut Yücebaş (der.), Yerli ve Milli Gündelik Hayat, İletişim.
Kudret Emiroğlu, Gündelik Hayatımızın Tarihi, İş Bankası Yay.
Susan Willis, Gündelik Hayat Kılavuzu, Ayrıntı.
Henri Lefebvre, Modern Dünyada Gündelik Hayat, Metis.
Henri Lefebvre, Gündelik Hayatın Eleştirisi I-II-III, Sel.
Michael Gardener, Gündelik Hayat Eleştirileri, Heretik.
Michel De Certeau, Gündelik Hayatın Keşfi I-II, Dost.
References: John Storey, “Cultural Theory and Popular Culture- An Introduction”, Routledge, London, 2015.
Stacy Takacs, “Interrogating Popular Culture- Key Questions”, Routledge, London, 2014.
Meenakshi Gigi Durham and D.M. Kellner (eds.) Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
David M. Newman, Sociology-Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, London, Sage Publications, 2014.

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Learning Outcomes

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2

3

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5

Program Outcomes
1) Gains the ability to interpret social developments with the theoretical knowledge that is acquired and a critical perspective.
2) Has knowledge about other disciplines and is open to lifelong learning to be able to success interdisciplinary work.
3) Has the ability to observe social, scientific and ethical values ​​in the stages of data collection, interpretation and announcement while conducting research in the field.
4) Graduates with a good knowledge of at least one foreign language and one foreign language at the entry level.
5) Gains a professional perspective with good observation ability and empathy.
6) Gains the ability to collect local, national and international data and conduct research in the field of social science.
7) Can make explanations to expert or non-expert audiences about their field or social issues, inform them and convey their thoughts, problems and solutions clearly in written and oral form.
8) Adopts various internship programs and applied studies.
9) Gains knowledge to work as a researcher, consultant or expert in the public or private sector.
10) Complies with the ethical rules accepted and encouraged by TÜBİTAK, YÖK and TÜBA and universal science within the context of research, and education.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Gains the ability to interpret social developments with the theoretical knowledge that is acquired and a critical perspective. 5
2) Has knowledge about other disciplines and is open to lifelong learning to be able to success interdisciplinary work. 5
3) Has the ability to observe social, scientific and ethical values ​​in the stages of data collection, interpretation and announcement while conducting research in the field. 5
4) Graduates with a good knowledge of at least one foreign language and one foreign language at the entry level.
5) Gains a professional perspective with good observation ability and empathy.
6) Gains the ability to collect local, national and international data and conduct research in the field of social science.
7) Can make explanations to expert or non-expert audiences about their field or social issues, inform them and convey their thoughts, problems and solutions clearly in written and oral form.
8) Adopts various internship programs and applied studies.
9) Gains knowledge to work as a researcher, consultant or expert in the public or private sector.
10) Complies with the ethical rules accepted and encouraged by TÜBİTAK, YÖK and TÜBA and universal science within the context of research, and education.

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Expression
Individual study and homework
Lesson
Reading
Homework
Q&A / Discussion

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)
Homework
Presentation

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 1 % 60
Presentation 1 % 40
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 100
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK %
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 42
Presentations / Seminar 1 40
Homework Assignments 1 60
Preliminary Jury 1 1
Final 1 1
Total Workload 144