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Description of Individual Course Units| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | FD140A | Sociology of knowledge | Elective | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| | Level of Course Unit | | Second Cycle | | Objectives of the Course | | It is aimed to discuss the views of the founders and leading figures of the sociology of knowledge and to criticize Western knowledge. | | Name of Lecturer(s) | | | Learning Outcomes | | 1 | They will have detailed information about the sociology of knowledge. |
| | Mode of Delivery | | Normal Education | | Prerequisites and co-requisities | | none | | Recommended Optional Programme Components | | none | | Course Contents | | The birth of the sociology of knowledge as a sub-branch of sociology, its history, the main contributions to the field, positivist epistemology, hermeneutics etc. topics are included. | | Weekly Detailed Course Contents | |
| 1 | Subject, field and definition of sociology of knowledge | | | | 2 | Thinkers who contributed to the sociology of knowledge | | | | 3 | Pioneers: Enlightenment thinkers | | | | 4 | Successors: Saint-Simon, A. Comte, K. Marx, M. Weber, K. Mannheim | | | | 5 | Features of modern Western knowledge | | | | 6 | The Scientific Revolution and the birth of modern sciences | | | | 7 | Information society and the information age | | | | 8 | Information processes in the informatics society | | |
| | Recommended or Required Reading | | C. Wright Mills, Bilgi, Sosyoloji ve Bilgi Sosyolojisi Üzerine, Paragraf Yayınları, 2005. Manuel Castells, Enformasyon Çağı: Ekonomi, Toplum ve Kültür, Birinci Cilt: Ağ Toplumunun Yükselişi, Çev. Ebru Kılıç, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2008. Manuel Castells, Enformasyon Çağı: Ekonomi, Toplum ve Kültür, Üçüncü Cilt: Binyılın Sonu, Çev. Ebru Kılıç, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2007. Bülent Yılmaz, “Bilgi Toplumu: Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım”, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 15, Sayı: 1, 1998. E. Doyle McCarthy, Bilgi Kültürü: Yeni Bilgi Sosyolojisi Auguste Comte, Pozitivizmin İlmihali Karl Marx,Feuerbach Üzerine Tezler Karl Mannheim, İdeoloji ve Ütopya Edmund Burke, Bilginin Toplumsal Tarihi Susan Hekman, Bilgi Sosyolojisi ve Hermeneutik Michel Foucault. Bilginin Arkeolojisi | | Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | | | Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | |
| Final Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 30 | | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 70 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | | Work Placement(s) | | none |
| | Workload Calculation | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 60 | 60 | | Final Examination | 1 | 120 | 120 | |
| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes | | | * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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