Information Package / Course Catalogue
New Social Movements
Course Code: SOS427
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

The main objective of this module is to examine and explain the socio-political dynamics of collective action. Social and political movements are the expressions of the collective actions which are in fact dependent variables of the social structure. From this perspective, students are expected to learn about women, environmental, anti nuclear, anti war, movements.

Course Content

In this course we will focus on the social structure and collective action, theories of collective action, political culture and political structure, peace, environmentalist, student, women’s and civil rights movements. Also, ideologies, values and social movements, the emergence of new middle classes and new social movements, religious movements, identity and social action, globalization of social movements will be investigated.

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Learning Outcomes
1.1. New social movements have emerged in early 1970s and began to dominate politics in Western Europe. In this course, students expected to improve their grasp of social movement theories as well as learn the historical roots of them.
2.2. In addition, the relationship between society and political movement will be considered. By using concepts, theories, approaches and tools of political sociology some of current new social movements will be analysed.
3.3. The New Social Movements were an direct outcome of the rise of new middle classes in the 1950s and 1960s.
4.4. The basic social differences and similarities between old and new social movements. Also, theoretical issues, futures and organizational structures of them will be discussed.
5.Students gain awareness about the global impact and prevalence of social movements
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Alain Touraine (1999) Yeni Sosyal Hareketler, Kaknüs Yayınları, İstanbul.
2.Kenan Çayır (1999), Yeni Sosyal Hareketler, Kaknüs Yayınları, İstanbul.
3.BankJoseph Ambrose (1972) The sociology of social movements, Macmillan [for the British Sociological Association], London.
4. Cas(19The city and the grassroots: a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements, E. Arnold.
5. Dieter Rucht (editor) (1991) Research on social movements: the state of the art in western Europe and the USA, Boulder, Calif. : Westview.
6. Donatella della Porta, Hanspeter Kriesiand Dieter Rucht (1999) Social movements in a globalizing world, Basingstoke : Macmillan New York.
7. Pakulski, J (1991) Social Movements: The politics of moral protest, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.
8. Porta D. Ve Diani M (2004) Social Movements, Blackwell Publishing,Oxford..
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Social Movement, what is social movement, how to define?
Week 2 - Theoretical
Theories of Social and Political Movements I
Week 3 - Theoretical
Theories of Social and Political Movements II
Week 4 - Theoretical
Theories of Social and Political Movements II
Week 5 - Theoretical
After 1960's structural changes. New middle class rise.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Identity and Collective Action
Week 7 - Theoretical
The rise of network society
Week 8 - Theoretical
Student and Youth Movements from Past to Present
Week 9 - Theoretical
Women’s Movements
Week 10 - Theoretical
Environmentalist Movements
Week 11 - Theoretical
The conscience of environment in Turkey
Week 12 - Theoretical
Examining Religious Movements from the Perspective of New Movements
Week 13 - Theoretical
The Future of Islamist Movements and Türkiye
Week 14 - Theoretical
End of Term Evaluation
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Seminar1%20
Assignment1%20
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment19110
Project114115
Reading140342
Individual Work140228
Final Examination110212
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)149
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
4
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4
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5
5
5
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5
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4
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4
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5
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5
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5
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026