Information Package / Course Catalogue
Sociology and Sociologies of Everyday Life
Course Code: SOSY618
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Sociologies of Everyday Life focus on meaning of social action. Course deals contemporary theories by presenting information of this field with representative readings.

Course Content

Introduction: The concepts of Sociology of , daily life, Epistemological elements. Theoretical approaches: Habermans, Heller in Neo-Marxism; Schutz, Berger and Luckmann in phenomenological approach. Ardigo; Goffman and Garfinkel in North- America Micro Sociology; New approaches: Maffesoli, Practise, Body, Theory, Foucault and Bourdieu, de Certeau; Critism of daily life: studies in Neo- freudism, Marxism and Psikanalism; elements of daily life; structures of life; Popular life form and its strategies; Social classes and daily life; Daily life and social genders

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Ümit TATLICAN
Learning Outcomes
1.To comprehend elements of daily life
2.To comment daily life by a different perspective.
3.To analyze events in everyday life from sociological perspective.
4.To learn theories of everyday life sociology
5.To establish to among eveyday life and macro structures.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Heller, A. (1984) Everyday Life. London:Routledge and Kegan Paul
2.Smith, D. E. (1987) The Everyday World as Problematic. Boston:Northeastern University Press
5.Maffesoli, M. (1989) The Sociology of Everyday Life:Epistemological Elements. Current Sociology. 37(1)
6.Bovone. L. (1989) Günlük Yaşam Teorileri:Anlam Arayışı mı Olumsuzlaması mı? Current Sociology. 37(1) (İngilizceden özet çeviri)
7.Brown, B. (1989) Marks, Freud ve Günlük Hayatın Eleştirisi. (çev) Yavuz Alogan. Istanbul:Ayrıntı.
8.Lefebvre, H., Regulier, K. (2005). Ritm Çözümlemesine Dayanan bir Proje: Gündelik Hayat ve Ritmleri. Birikim. (191).
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction: To have trouble with life
Week 2 - Theoretical
Main theorical approaches: Neo-Marxism: Heller, Habermas,Lefebvre
Week 3 - Theoretical
Phenomological approaches:Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, Ardigo
Week 4 - Theoretical
North America Micro Sociology: Goffman and Garfinkel
Week 5 - Theoretical
Epistemological elements of Sociology of Daily Life
Week 6 - Theoretical
The unconscious, Practise, Power in Daily life : Freud, Bourdieu, Foucault
Week 7 - Theoretical
Critism of Daily Life: New- Freudism studies, Marxism and Psikanalism
Week 8 - Theoretical
Contemporary Theoretical Studies: de Certeau, Maffesoli, Bovone, Smith
Week 9 - Theoretical
Critism of Daily life: Freud iin Marxism; Alienation and Opposition in daily life :Lefebvre
Week 10 - Theoretical
Individual in the relationships between reality, ego and power
Week 11 - Theoretical
Ways of life and antropology of consumption
Week 12 - Theoretical
Minimalism, ethic and late-capitalism, the way of resistances to life: love and aesthetic
Week 13 - Theoretical
The art of exist As a practise
Week 14 - Theoretical
Giddens: Duality of Everyday Lİfe
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%20
Final Examination1%50
Attending Lectures1%5
Assignment2%15
Term Assignment1%10
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Assignment1336
Term Project1151025
Reading41524
Final Examination112315
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)126
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
3
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026