Information Package / Course Catalogue
Internal Migration and Urban Modernization Debates in Turkey
Course Code: SOSY561
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

1. To provide students with an understanding of the relationship between immigration and urbanization 2. To make them to be able to be competent over immigration and modernization debates 3. To provide them with an adequate knowledge and perspective in order to make them able to analyze urbanization and modernity debates in terms of socio-cultural transformation 4. To provide them with an adequate knowledge and perspective in order to make them able to analyze urbanization and modernity debates in terms of economic transformation 5. To make them be able to analyze the effects of urbanization over the space

Course Content

Internal Migration and Urbanization in Turkey; Modernization Dynamics and Urbanization; Anomic Urbanization; Urbanization and Socio-Cultural Transformation; Urbanization and Economic Transformation; Spatial Transformation; Urban Transformation and Space

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Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to understand the relationship between immigration and urban modernization in Turkey
2.To be able to analyze urbanization-modernization relations over socio-cultural transformations
3.To be able to analyze urbanization-modernization relations over economic transformations
4.To be able to explain anomic urbanization and be able to relate it with modernization
5.To be able to understand and explain the relationship between urban financialisation and space
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Bilanço 98 (1999) 75 Yılda Köylerden Şehirlere, Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul
2.Keleş, R. (edt) (1997) İnsan Çevre Toplum, İmge Kitapevi, İstanbul
3.Sosyoloji Derneği (1997) Toplum ve Göç, II. Ulusal Sosyoloji Kongresi , T.C. başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü Yayınları.
4.Duru B ve A. Alkan (edt) (2002) 20 Yüzyıl Kenti, . İmge Kitapevi, İstanbul
5.Bumin, K. (1990) Demokrasi Arayışında Kent, Ayrıntı Yayınevi,İstanbul 
6.Bal, H. (2002) Kent Sosyolojisi, Fakülte Kitapevi, Isparta
7.Kılıçbay, M. A. (2000) Şehirler ve Kentler, İmge Kitapevi, İstanbul
8.Weber, M. (2003) Şehir. Modern Kentin Oluşumu, çev: Musa Ceylan, Bakış yayınları, İstanbul.
9.Giddens, A. Modernliğin Sonuçları
10.Giddens, A. Elimizden Kaçıp Giden Dünya
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction to course and its contents
Week 2 - Theoretical
Internal Migration and Urbanization in Turkey
Week 3 - Theoretical
Modernization Dynamics and Urbanization
Week 4 - Theoretical
Urbanization and Socio-CulturalTransformation
Week 5 - Theoretical
Fellow-townsmanship Kinship, Jamaatization
Week 6 - Theoretical
Urbanization and Economic Transformation
Week 7 - Theoretical
Marginal Sectors
Week 8 - Theoretical
Spatial transformation
Week 9 - Theoretical
Urban Transformation and Place
Week 10 - Theoretical
Housing Problem and Gecekondu
Week 11 - Theoretical
Secure Sitesand Spatial Isolation
Week 12 - Theoretical
Anomic Urbanization
Week 13 - Theoretical
Urban Financialisation
Week 14 - Theoretical
Globalization and the City/Urban
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Assignment2%50
Term Assignment1%50
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142370
Assignment215030
Term Project125025
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
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