SOC380.8 Conflict Management: Theory and Practice

Theories regarding conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict peace-building through an examination of case studies.

Course includes a theoretical and empirical approach to civil-military relations in selected countries. Relates sociology to security studies. (SOC3054/SOC3004)

Course is designed to develop a sociological description and analysis of social and cultural changes in contemporary Turkish society in a global context. Aims to enable students to understand the structure of modern Turkey, to apply sociological thinking to current social trends in Turkey and engage in independent analysis and research.

In this course the nature of work is examined with emphasis given to the roles of both women and men as productive and reproductive laborers. We will examine the links between social processes, institutions of employment, and their domestic as well social contexts. Our main focus will be on domestic labor, emotional labor, the relationship between gender, organization, bureaucracy, sexual harassment, gender-based segregation and stratification, work commitment and work-family policy will. (SOC 3020/SOC 3060)

Social movements can be defined as social change at the local, national or global level. This change can take place in terms of affecting the human rights issues and concerns or policies, ethnic, national or gender equality issues, or environmental, class and religious/secularist changes driven by people rather than the governments of power regimes. This course aims to discuss the link between media technologies, including digital and mobile ones, and social movements of the recent past. (NMD 3105)

The course will focus on the notion of youth in a broad sense as a phase in human life between childhood and adulthood. The course will examine the social construction of youth in Turkey, Middle East and Western societies, and will focus on fundamental social changes facing the youth today in educational sphere, transition from school to work, and transition from dependency to independence and family formation. Then, we will discuss the unique patterns characteristic of youth in the areas of wellness and health, delinquency and crime, life-styles and subcultures, political participation and other. Finally, we will examine the role of youth subcultures and their variability in the global context. (SOC 3092)

The purpose of this course is to analyze fascism and National Socialism, and to provide a basis to assess the significance of these world-views in the modern period. Another goal of the course is to describe the relationship between ultra-right and conservative regimes and ideologies, and fascism. We will also describe the fascist and far right regimes and movements in countries like Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Japan, and Turkey. (SOC 3058)

This course aims to introduce students to youth studies and related methodologies. Students examine youth studies from media studies’ perspective and discuss what youth is, what the youth culture is, and how youth culture varies across different places and time. By developing research questions, applying particular methods into their research, and completing fieldwork, students will have a good grasp of the current and future trends in young people’s media consumption behaviors. The content of the course thus will include both theoretical perspectives and practices of research. (NMD 3006/NMD 2908)

The course presents a selection of readings that could provoke critical thinking about gender, state and society. The course includes lectures, large and small group discussions, films and student-led seminars. It aims to examine theories of gender, the gendered constitution of policy debates about work/life balance, gender processes and gender practice in the field of education, and the gender processes in local and global level. SU students may not earn credit for both this course and SOC 305. (SOC 3057)

This course explores the theoretical perspectives developed in social sciences about “mass culture” and, by the theoretical tools of these perspectives, critically examines the phenomenon of popular culture. Who are the producers and consumers of popular culture? The course eventually explores various theorists and theories, such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marxisms, Structuralists, Postmodernists and others, to find a better perspective for understanding popular culture. (NMD 3004)