ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POL3511	Social Change and Social Structure in Turkey	Spring	3	0	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Hybrid
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. EBRU ŞULE CANAN SOKULLU
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None.
Course Objectives:	This course begins from the earlier theories on social change and social structure in Turkey, and over the semester familiarizes the students with more contemporary debates. The students who have succeeded in this course will be able to understand the evolution of Turkish political life, political economy, the dominant patterns of inequality in Turkish society, the main social and political actors in a historical perspective and situate the Turkish experience in a global context.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Critically evaluate evolution of Turkish political economy;
2. Analyse dominant patterns of inequality in Turkish society;
3. Identify who the main political actors in Turkey are;
4. Discuss the evolution of dominant political ideologies such as Turkish nationalism and political Islam;
5. Evaluate how to contextualize the Turkish experience in a global context.

Course Content

Turkish politics, political ideologies and political culture, political economy, internal migration and urban transformation, gender, social movements and civil society, religion and Islamic groups, nationalism and ethnicities, international migration and public health policies.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Social Structure in Turkey: Continuities and Changes	Mardin, Ş. (1973). Center-periphery relations: A key to Turkish politics?. Daedalus, 169-190. Keyman, E. F. (2010). Modernization, globalization and democratization in Turkey: the AKP experience and its limits. Constellations, 17(2), 312-327. Bakiner, O. (2018). A key to Turkish politics? The center–periphery framework revisited. Turkish Studies, 19(4), 503-522.
3)	A Very Short Introduction to Turkish Politics	Ahmad, F. (2008). Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey. The Cambridge History of Turkey, 4, 226-265. Kalaycıoğlu, E. (2012). Kulturkampf in Turkey: The constitutional referendum of 12 September 2010. South European Society and Politics, 17(1), 1-22.
4)	Political Ideologies & Political Culture	Yeşilada, B. A., & Noordijk, P. (2010). Changing values in Turkey: Religiosity and tolerance in comparative perspective. Turkish Studies, 11(1), 9-27. Öktem, K. (2020). “Ruling Ideologies in Modern Turkey”, in Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics, Güneş Murat Tezcür (Eds): Oxford University Press. Aytaç, S. E., & Elçi, E. (2019). Populism in Turkey. In Populism Around the World (pp. 89-108). Springer, Cham.
5)	The Making of Neoliberal Turkey & Turkish Welfare Regime	Öniş, Z. (2019). Turkey under the challenge of state capitalism: the political economy of the late AKP era. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 19(2), 201-225. Buğra, A. (2018). Social policy and different dimensions of inequality in Turkey: A historical overview. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20(4), 318-331. Pamuk, Sevket. (2007). Economic change in twentieth century Turkey: Is the glass more than half full?. Cambridge History of Modern Turkey. 10.1017/CHOL9780521620963.011. Öniş, Z. (2012). The triumph of conservative globalism: The political economy of the AKP era. Turkish Studies, 13(2), 135-152.
6)	Internal Migration & Urban Transformation	Keyder, C. (2005). Globalization and social exclusion in Istanbul. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 29(1), 124-134. Pinarcioğlu, M., & Işik, O. (2008). Not only helpless but also hopeless: Changing dynamics of urban poverty in Turkey, the case of Sultanbeyli, İstanbul. European Planning Studies, 16(10), 1353-1370. Candan, A. B., & Kolluoğlu, B. (2008). Emerging spaces of neoliberalism: A gated town and a public housing project in Istanbul. New Perspectives on Turkey, 39, 5-46.
7)	Midterm Exam
8)	Gender	Arat, Y. (2000). ‘From Emancipation to Liberation: The Changing Role of Women in Turkey’s Political Realm.’ Journal of International Affairs, 54(1): 107-123. Deniz Kandiyoti, “Gender and Women’s Studies in Turkey: A Moment for Reflection?” New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010, no. 43, pp. 165-176.
9)	Civil Society & Politics of Protest	Keyman, E. F., & İçduygu, A. (2003). Globalization, civil society and citizenship in Turkey: Actors, boundaries and discourses. Citizenship Studies, 7(2), 219-234. Tuğal, C. (2013). “Resistance everywhere”: The Gezi revolt in global perspective. New Perspectives on Turkey, 49, 157-172.
10)	Religion & Islamic Groups	Kaya, A. (2015). Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP rule: Empowering family, faith and charity. South European Society and Politics, 20(1), 47-69. Tuğal, C. (2009). Transforming everyday life: Islamism and social movement theory. Theory and Society, 38(5), 423-458.
11)	Nationalisms & Ethnicities	Kadioğlu, A. (1996). The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity. Middle Eastern Studies, 32(2), 177-193. Mesut Yeğen, “Turkish nationalism and the Kurdish Question,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2007, 30(1): 119-151. Çağlar Keyder, “A History and Geography of Turkish Nationalism,” in Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey, eds. Faruk Birtek and Thalia Dragonas, 2005, London: Routledge, pp. 3-17.
12)	International Migration & Turkey’s Emigrants	Eder, M., & Özkul, D. (2016). Editors’ introduction: precarious lives and Syrian refugees in Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey, 54, 1-8. F. Adamson (2019), ‘Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s), International Migration Review, 53(1), p. 210-236.
13)	COVID19 Special: Pandemics, Epidemics and Social Change in Turkey	Varlik, N. (2015). Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world. Cambridge University Press.
14)	PRESENTATIONS & REVISION & Q/A SESSION

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Weekly readings will be uploaded on ItsLearning at the beginning of the semester. Please note that all book chapters and articles listed on the syllabus are also accessible through the BAU Library. The PPT files will be shared on ItsLearning following each class.
References:	Guidelines on assignments will be uploaded on Itslearning at the beginning of the semester.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	1	% 35
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	13	39
Study Hours Out of Class	13	87
Presentations / Seminar	1	20
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	3
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	2
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	2
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3