ADM4152 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS IN TURKEY
| Course Code: | 3104152 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science And Public Adm. |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. MUSTAFA KEMAL BAYIRBAÐ |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The rationale for re-proposing of this course is may social scientifically grounded opinion of felt need for integration of a course –indeed a series of courses- focused on the development of the working class in Turkey to the undergraduate curriculum of our department in order to stimulate the development of an awareness of the necessity of grounding the academic formation of political science students on the reality and knowledge of social classes as the broadest and deepest socio-historical determining bases of politics in class societies. In the first part of the treatment of the proposed course subjects, a preliminary introduction to the major theoretical perspectives on social classes; the major modes of working class organizations, actions and ideologies; and a brief history of the emergence and development of the working class will be realized. However, the main focus of the course will be an exploration of the general and distinctive conditions of the development of the working class, and the major trends in the working class organizations, actions legislations and ideologies in the Ottoman and Republican Turkey in an integrated perspective. Three other areas of the focuses of the treatment of the subject will be on the macro-societal conditions of the working class at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: (1) the impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, (2) the third crisis of capitalism, and its neo-liberal global restructuration (globalization of capitalism) and (3) the capitalist restoration of the etatist-bureauctarictic socialism on the working class movement in the world in general and in Turkey particular.In the exposition of the treatment of the subject, I intent to apply an integrated use of historical and analytical methods as an appropriate methodological perspective.
The preparation of a term-paper and active participation in group discussion on the term-paper presentation will be principal requirements in the learning process of the course.