Academic Catalog

SOC521 THE SOC. OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Course Code: 2320521
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Sociology
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. BAHATTÝN AKÞÝT
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Historical sociological approach to the problem of structural transformations. History and new conceptions of time. Transformational mechanisms in non-linear social history. From hierarchical to network society. Society, state and non-governmental organizations. From civil society to resistance and project communities/identities. From defense of place to space of flows.