| 1 | General information about the course
What is sociology of education? The relation between sociology and sociology of education
Basic facts on society and education in Turkey. Examples of sociological issues related to education in Turkey (based on news pieces).
News pieces:
Four million students in Turkey 'deprived of education' due to pandemic, BIA News Desk, 21 May 2021, https://bianet.org/english/youth/244421-four-million-students-in-turkey-deprived-of-education-due-to-pandemic
Turkish women protest: 'Sanitary products are not a luxury', DW | 23.01.2022
https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-women-protest-sanitary-products-are-not-a-luxury/a-60500885
Are Turkey’s schools dropping evolution and teaching jihad?, BBC news, 22 August 2017
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41003105
Deadly Turkish School Fire Reveals The Challenges Girls Face in Getting an Education, ERG, 13 December 2016, http://en.egitimreformugirisimi.org/deadly-turkish-school-fire-reveals-the-challenges-girls-face-in-getting-an-education/
19th century sociology: Saint Simon, Comte, Harriet Martineau, Durkheim, Marx. |
| 2 | 19th century sociology: Saint Simon, Comte, Harriet Martineau, Durkheim, Marx.
Capital Manga will be read until this week.
Paintings to be shown: Yüksel Arslan’s Capital Paintings
News pieces:
Super-rich increase their share of world's income,7 December 2021, BBC news https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59565690 |
| 3 | 20th century sociology: Functionalism, Conflict Theories, Symbolic Interactionism
Some basic concepts: Functions of education, socialization, tools of socialization, primary and secondary groups
News pieces:
Nearly 400 thousand Syrian students don’t go to school in Turkey
BIA News Desk, 31 March 2022, https://bianet.org/english/migration/259871-nearly-400-thousand-syrian-students-don-t-go-to-school-in-turkey |
| 4 | Doing research in sociology and sociology of education:
Types of sociological questions
Seven Steps of the research process
Methods of research: Survey, ethnography, experiments, historical documentation
Some Concepts: Triangulation, sample, science, dependent variable, independent variable, correlation, causation.
Read to see difficulties girls might encounter in Turkey in relation to education: Özge Samancı’s Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey. |
| 5 | Durkheim’s contribution to sociology of education
Weber’s contribution to sociology of education
Conflict theories in education 1: Gintis & Bowles, American education and the capitalist context.
Conflict theories in education 2: Willard Waller-intergenerational conflict between the student and the teacher
Interactionism in education: Exchange theory and Labelling theory
Read and see “liberation through education, family socialization and also positive role models” and “how race and labelling might work in educational contexts” in: Alexie, Sherman, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”. |
| 6 | Randal Collins- Technocracy myth
Paulo Freire (culture of silence)
Pierre Bourdieu (cultural capital, symbolic violence, cultural reproduction)
Althusser and his concepts
Criticism of functionalists, conflict theories, interactionist theory.
Read to trace the difficulties girls might encounter in relation to education in another context: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. |
| 7 | Basil Bernstein: Class Difference in Language codes
Paul Willis: Working-class youth culture at school
Ivan Illich:Hidden Curricula, deschooling society
History of sociology of education in Turkey (society-centered views).
Some concepts: formal education, informal education, non-formal education
Paintings to be shown: Malik Aksel New School (1936), Şeref Akdik Registration to the school (1935), Şeref Akdik School for the Nation (1933) |
| 8 | History of sociology of education in Turkey (individualist views).
Stratification and Education
News pieces:
The Dalits | Still untouchable, India Today, February 3, 2016 https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/the-big-story/story/20160215-dalits-untouchable-rohith-vemula-caste-discrimination-828418-2016-02-03 |
| 9 | Midterm |
| 10 | Gender, girls and education
Summary of Firdevs Gümüşoğlu's Sexism in Textbooks article
Kancı & Altınay (Gender in texbooks)
Some basic concepts: gender, sex, sexism, sisterhood, feminism, girlhood studies, girls, girl culture, girlpower.
Read to trace the relations among family background, beauty, education, race in girlhood in: Walker, Alice, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”.
Read to see how even the educated men are unsure about the meaning of feminism in the early republican Turkey in Memduh Şevket Esendal’s (1940s) "The Feminist".
News: Woman who exercised self-defense against husband granted asylum by Switzerland, BIA News Desk, 02 April 2021
https://bianet.org/english/women/241777-woman-who-exercised-self-defense-against-husband-granted-asylum-by-switzerland |
| 11 | Globalization and changing world |
| 12 | Globalization and education
Homeworks will be uploaded to UBİS.
Peer groups: Types, influence, some peer group researchers and their works |
| 13 | NETT (not in employment, education, or training) Youth in Turkey: %28.8
Human Capital Theory and its criticism
Some sociological theories as background knowledge for sociology of education: Baudrillard and media criticism, Foucault’s archeology, Habermas and Public sphere |
| 14 | Some sociological theories as background knowledge for sociology of education: Manual Castells and Network society, Ulrich Beck and risk society, Anthony Giddens.
Recent methodological developments in women’s studies which has an impact in the field of sociology education: Situated knowledges and Intersectionality theory |
