Academic Catalog

EDUS240 EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

Course Code: 3680240
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 2(2-0)
ECTS Credit: 3.0
Department: Educational Sciences
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

The basic concepts of sociology: Society. social structure. social fact. social event. and so on.; the pioneers of sociology (Ibn-I Haldun. A. Comte. K. Marx. E. Durkheim. M. Weber. and so on) and their educational viewpoints; education in terms of the basic sociological theories (pragmatism. constructivism. symbolic interactionism. conflict theory. critical theory. phenomenology and ethnomethodology); social processes (socialization. social stratification. social mobility. social change. and so on) and education; social institutions (family. religion. economy. politics) and education; the development of sociology and educational sociology in Turkey (Ziya Gökalp. Ýsmail Hakký Baltacýoðlu. Nurettin Topçu. Mümtaz Turhan. and so on); culture and education; school as a social. cultural. ethical system and community.