EDS240 EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
| Course Code: |
4540240 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
5.0 |
| Department: |
Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring 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.
