Sabancı University :: Course Offerings

Power, Economy, and Society (SOC 525)

Last Offered: 2022 Fall

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Subject: Sociology(SOC)

SU Credit: 3

ECTS Credit: 10

Instructor(s): Cenk Özbay ozbay@sabanciuniv.edu,

Detailed Syllabus: Click here to view.

Language of Instruction: English

Level of Course: Doctoral, Master

Prerequisites (only for SU students) : --

Mode of Delivery: Seminar

Planned Learning Activities: Interactive,Communicative

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Programs\Type	Required	Core Elective	Area Elective
Computer Science and Engineering - With Master's Degree			*
Cultural Studies - Non Thesis			*
Cultural Studies - With Thesis			*
Leaders for Industry Biological Sciences and Bioengineering - Non Thesis			*
Leaders for Industry Industrial Engineering - Non Thesis			*
Leaders for Industry Materials Science and Engineering - Non Thesis			*
Leaders for Industry Mechatronics Engineering - Non Thesis			*

CONTENT

This course introduces students to the study of the meaning, functions, and place of economic activities in society from a comparative perspective. Topics to be covered include globalization, capitalism and neoliberalism; work and labor regimes; governmentality; cultures of consumption; space and value; deindustrialization and class; and cultural economy

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the term students will be familiarized with some selected aspects of the Foucauldian theory on society, power, and individuals.
At the end of the term students will be able to incorporate certain lines of Foucault?s thinking to comprehend the existing socio-economic and spatial-geographical inequalities and forms of suffering in the contemporary, neoliberalizing, and globalized planet.

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ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

	Percentage (%)
Term-Paper	50
Participation	30
Presentation	20