Information Package / Course Catalogue
Postmodernity Theories
Course Code: SOS410
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

To be informed of purpose, content and discussions of postmodernity theories and theorists.

Course Content

Course presents information about postmodernity theories and discusses about these theories.

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Learning Outcomes
1.learn postmodernity theories and theorists.
2.learn discussions and concepts about these theories.
3.learn postmodernist aproachs in other disciplines.
4.achieve sociological point of view for analysing these theories and other theories.
5.Be able to analyze the relationship between postmodernity discussions and current social events.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Anderson, Perry, Postmodernitenin Kökenleri, Çev. Elçin Gen, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002.
2.Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernlik ve Müphemlik, Çev. İsmail Türkmen, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 2003.
3.Best, Steven ve Kellner, Douglas, Postmodern Teori, Çev. Mehmet Küçük, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1998.
4.Harvey, David, Postmodernliğin Durumu, Çev. Sungur Savran, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006.
5.Kumar, Krishan, Çağdaş Dünyanın Yeni Kuramları Sanayi Sonrası Toplumdan Post-Modern Topluma, Çev. Mehmet Küçük, Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara, 1999.
6.Baudrillard, Jean, Simülakrlar ve Simülasyon, Çev. Oğuz Adanır, Doğu Batı Yayınları, Ankara, 2003
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
INTRODUCTION
Week 2 - Theoretical
Historical Background of Postmodernity, Meaning and Intellectual Fundamentals
Week 3 - Theoretical
Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity, Postmodernism's Human Understanding
Week 4 - Theoretical
Social indicators of postmodernity
Week 5 - Theoretical
Jean-François Lyotard: Modern Knowledge Structures and Postmodern Situation
Week 6 - Theoretical
Friedrich Nietzsche: Postmodern Philosophy
Week 7 - Theoretical
Michel Foucault’s Postmodernism
Week 8 - Theoretical
Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity and Postmodernity
Week 9 - Theoretical
Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity and Postmodernityernity
Week 10 - Theoretical
Jurgen Habermas: Criticism and defense of postmodernity
Week 11 - Theoretical
Jean Baudrillard: Hyperreality, Postmodern Nihilism
Week 12 - Theoretical
Fredric Jameson: The Logic and Superstructure of Capitalism
Week 13 - Theoretical
Anthony Giddens: Late Modernity
Week 14 - Theoretical
Adorno ve Horkheimer: Frankfurt Okulu ve Postmodern Yaklaşım
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Reading140342
Individual Work130226
Midterm Examination119120
Final Examination124125
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)155
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