Information Package / Course Catalogue
Knowledge and Society
Course Code: SOSY563
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

look from a social epistemological perspective, recognize of different involved knowledge and society approaches, to establish dialectic of subject-object, look from different perspectives of knowledge and society

Course Content

Comte and positivism, Durkheişm and the social construction of knowledge, Marx and ideology, Mannheim and the contextualitu of knowledge, Winch and the controversy of science/magic, Althusser and ideology, Foucault and discourse,

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Berivan BİNAY
Learning Outcomes
1.to gain the social epistemolpgical perspective
2.to compare the different knowledgeand society approaches
3.to establish the subject-object dialectics
4.to explain the knowledge and society
5.to determine of a knowledge perspective
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The Concepts of Knowledge and Science
Week 2 - Theoretical
The Primary Conceptions of Knowledge and Science
Week 3 - Theoretical
The Forerunners of the Sociology Knowledge-Condorcet, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte
Week 4 - Theoretical
The Forerunners of the Sociology Knowledge-Karl Marx
Week 5 - Theoretical
The Founders of the Sociology Knowledge-Emile Durkheim, Friedrich Schiller
Week 6 - Theoretical
Karl Mannheim- the Sociology Knowledge as Theory
Week 7 - Theoretical
Karl Mannheim- The Knowledge as Context-Dependent
Week 8 - Theoretical
Georgy Lukács-Totality
Week 9 - Theoretical
Georgy Lukács-The Critique of Empiricism
Week 10 - Theoretical
Louis Althusser-Totality and Relative Autonomy
Week 11 - Theoretical
Louis Althusser-Ideology as the Unconsciousness Emergence
Week 12 - Theoretical
Michel Foucault-Knowledge as Episteme
Week 13 - Theoretical
Michel Foucault-Ideology as A Discourse
Week 14 - Theoretical
Jean-François Lyotard-The Knowledge at A Postmodern Age
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Reading52325
Midterm Examination120222
Final Examination120323
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)126
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
4
4
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4
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3
3
3
3
3
3
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3
3
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3
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3
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3
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3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026