| Course Name |
Social Movements
|
|
Code
|
Semester
|
Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
|
ECTS
|
|
PSIR 641
|
Fall/Spring
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
7.5
|
| Prerequisites |
None
|
|||||
| Course Language |
English
|
|||||
| Course Type |
Elective
|
|||||
| Course Level |
Third Cycle
|
|||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
| Course Lecturer(s) | - | |||||
| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | By the end of this course, students will understand the causes, stages, forms and outcomes of social movements. |
| Course Description |
The students who succeeded in this course;
|
| Course Content | The course introduces students to social movements that take place in Turkey and other countries. |
|
|
Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction – syllabus presentation and explanation. | Syllabus and documents containing rules for the undertaking and evaluation of students’ individual analytical work |
| 2 | What is a social movement? | Staggenborg,Suzanne. 2012 Social Movements, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp.1-9. Snow, David. 2004.“Social Movements as Challenges to Authority:Resistance to an Emerging Conceptual Hegemony.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 25:3 – 25. |
| 3 | Main theories | John McCarthy and Mayer Zald. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory” in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna, eds., Social Movements: A Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 20 08), pp. 105-117. Staggenborg, Suzanne. 2012. Social Movements, pp.13-46. Tarrow, Sidney.1993. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History Vol. 17 (2): 281 – 307. |
| 4 | Collective action problem | Mancur Olson, “Logic of Collective Action” in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna, eds., Social Movements: A Reader (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 93-94. |
| 5 | Political structures | Herbert Kitschelt, "Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Antinuclear Movements in Four Democracies," British Journal of Political Science 16(1986): 57-85. Noonan, Rita “Women against the State: Political Opportunities and Collective Action Frames in Chile’s Transition to Democracy.” Sociological Forum. Edwin Amenta, Drew Halfmann, and Michael P. Young, "The Strategies and Contexts of Social Protest: Political Mediation and the Impact of the Townsend Movement in California," Mobilization 4 (1999):1-23. |
| 6 | Organizational Repertoires | Charles Tilly, "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain, 1758-1834," in Mark Traugott, ed., Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action (1994). • Elisabeth Clemens, "Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920," American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993): 755-798. Theda Skocpol, "Associations Without Members," American Prospect 45 (July-August 1999): 66-73. |
| 7 | Media’s role | Juris, Jeffrey S. “The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti- Corporate Globalization Movements.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Staggenborg, Suzanne. 2012. Social Movements, pp.48-52. |
| 8 | Cultural factors | Williams, Rhys “Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources.” Social Problem. Bernstein, Mary “Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement.” American Journal of Sociology. McAdam, Doug “Gender as Mediator of the Activist Experience: The Case of Freedom Summer.” American Journal of Sociology. |
| 9 | Religion and social movements | Harris, Fredrick C. 1994. Something within: Religion as a mobilizer of African-American political activism. The Journal of Politics 56, no.1: 42-68. Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin. 2007. Religiosity and protest behaviour: The case of Turkey in comparative perspective. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 9, no.3: 275-291. |
| 10 | Impact of social movements | Giugni, Marco G. 1998. “Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 24: 371-393. |
| 11 | The Arab Spring | Timeline of Revolts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline Eric Goldstein, 2011. “A Middle Class Revolution,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/18/a_middle_class_revolution |
| 12 | Social movements in Turkey | Arat, Y. 1994. Toward a democratic society: The women's movement in Turkey in the 1980s. Women’s Studies International Forum 17, no.2-3: 241-248. Baydar, Gülsüm and İvegen, Berfin. 2006. Territories, identities, and thresholds: The Saturday Mothers phenomenon in İstanbul. Signs 31, no.3: 689-715. Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin and Çarkoğlu, Ali. 2007. Turkish democracy today: Elections, protest and stability in an Islamic society. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. |
| 13 | Social movements in Europe | Marsh, Alan and Kaase, Max. 1979. Background of political action. In Political action: Mass participation in five Western democracies, eds. Samuel. H. Barnes and Max Kaase, 97-136. London: Sage. |
| 14 | Presentations | |
| 15 | Review | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Books (see above), power point presentations |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
|
20
|
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
|
50
|
| Presentation / Jury |
3
|
30
|
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 9 |
100 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
|
3
|
48
|
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
|
||
| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
|
10
|
|
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Homework / Assignments |
5
|
7
|
|
| Presentation / Jury |
3
|
10
|
|
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exam | |||
| Total |
253
|
|
#
|
Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
|
||||
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
||
| 1 | To be able to improve and deepen the theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations. |
X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to evaluate critically and analytically the relationships between various factors in the discipline of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture at an advanced level. |
X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to determine the theoretical and empirical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature and gain the ability of questioning at an advanced level. |
X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to gain the ability to develop innovative, leading and original arguments in order to fill the gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature. |
X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to gather, analyze, and interpret the data by using advanced qualitative or quantitative research methods in Political Science and International Relations. |
X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to develop original academic works and publish scientific articles in refereed national or international indexed journals in the field of Political Science and International Relations. |
X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to describe individual research and contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations in written, oral, and visual forms. |
X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity and/or as part of a team in generating innovative and analytical solutions to the problems that arise in relation to the politics in daily life. |
X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to develop projects in determining the institutional and political instruments for conflict resolution in national and international politics. |
X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to prepare an original thesis in Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria. |
|||||
| 11 | To be able to follow new research and developments, publish scientific articles and participate the debates in academic meetings in Political Science and International Relations through a foreign language. |
X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of gathering, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations. |
|||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
