Information Package / Course Catalogue
Sociological Analysis of the History of Turkey
Course Code: SOSY632
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

1- to make students be able to analyse to recent history of Turket by using sociological approaches 2- to make students be able to explain the relationship between the transformations in recent history of Turkey and transformations in the world and the region 3- to provide students with a knowledge in order to make them be able to analyse the social, economical and cultural transformations in the recent history of Turkey 4- to help students analysing the effects of those social, economic and cultural transformations on the social structure of Turkey 5- to make students be able to discus the efeects of global factors on on dynamics in Turkey

Course Content

Westernisation question and the modernisation in Turkey; the streams of thought in the 19th centruy Turkey and their effects on recent history; Indepence War, Secluar Republic, Modernisation and Conservatism; Political Transformation and search for democracy; Economic structure and western style development; Social transformation

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.be able to analyse the events that occured in the recent history of Turkey by using sosyological approaches
2.be able to explain the relationship between the transformations in recent history of Turkey and the the transformations in the world
3.be able to analyse the social, political, economic and cultural transformation in the recent history of Turkey
4.be able to explain the effects of those social, poltical economic and cultural transformation on the social structure of Turkey
5.be able to discuss the effects of global factors on dynamics in Turkey
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Alpkaya, Faruk ve Bülent Duru (Der) (2012) 1920’den Günümüze Türkiye’de Toplumsal Yapı ve Değişim, Phoenix Yayınevi, Ankara
2.Aktel, Mehmet (2003) Küreselleşme ve Türk Kamu Yönetimi, Asil Yayıncılık, Ankara
3.Cem, İsmail (1993)Geçiş Dönemi Türkiyesi, Cem Yayınevi, İstanbul
4.Ercan, Fuat ve Yüksel Akkaya(Edt) (2005) Kapitalizm ve Türkiye I - Kapitalizm, Tarih ve Ekonomi, Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara
5.Ercan, Fuat ve Yüksel Akkaya(Edt) (2005) Kapitalizm ve Türkiye II – Emek, Siyasal Yaşam ve Bölgesel Kalkınma, Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara
6.İnsel, Ahmet (2001) Türkiye Toplumunun Bunalımı, Birikim Yayınları, İstanbul
7.Kongar, Emre (1998) 21. Yüzyılda Türkiye 2000’li Yıllarda Türkiye’nin Toplumsal Yapısı, Remzi Kitapevi, İstanbul
8.Lewis, Bernard (1997) İslâm’ın Siyasal Söylemi, Cep Kitapları, İstanbul
9.Lewis, Bernard (2010) Demokrasinin Türkiye Serüveni, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul
10.Ortaylı, İlber (2010) Türkiye’nin Yakın Tarihi, Timaş Yayınları, İstanbul
11.Saybaşılı, Kemali (1992) İktisat, Siyaset, Devlet ve Türkiye, Bağlam Yayıncılık, Ankara
12.Mardin, Şerif (2002) Türk Modernleşmesi, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
13.Zürcher, Erik Jan (1999) Modernleşen Türkiye’nin Tarihi, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction to the lecture
Week 2 - Theoretical
Question of Westernisation and the Modernisation in Turkey
Week 2 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 3 - Theoretical
the Streams of thought in 19th centruy Turkey and their effects on recent history
Week 3 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 4 - Theoretical
Young Turks, Committee og Union and Progress, Atatürk and Kemalism
Week 4 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 5 - Theoretical
Independence War, Secular Republic, Modernisation and Coservatism
Week 5 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 6 - Theoretical
Political Transformation and the search for democracy, One-party period and political, legal, cultural and social re-structuring , Multi-party period and traditionalist - liberals
Week 6 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 7 - Theoretical
Military coups, memories and statist-elitist agency , Constitution of 1961 and political organisation within social life
Week 7 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 8 - Theoretical
24 January 1980/12 September 1980: The local effects of Özal and re-structuring, New millenium: Regional and local politics
Week 8 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 9 - Theoretical
Economic structure and western style development , Bourgeois ideology and peasantry, One-party period and new economic structuruing and the preferences
Week 10 - Theoretical
Democrat Party period and new economic model, Post- 24 January 1980 period: Globalisation and neo-liberalism
Week 10 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 11 - Theoretical
Social Transformation, Education , Rural and Urban
Week 11 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 12 - Theoretical
Student Presentation
Week 12 - Preparation Work
Students are expected to read articles given previously
Week 13 - Theoretical
Student Presentation
Week 13 - Preparation Work
Student are expected to present and discuss the issue that they vere prepared earlier
Week 14 - Theoretical
Student Presentation
Week 14 - Preparation Work
Student are expected to present and discuss the issue that they vere prepared earlier
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Attending Lectures14%20
Assignment4%50
Term Assignment1%30
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment215030
Term Project123023
Reading152030
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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