
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Sociology
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Sociology aims to equip students with critical and analytical thinking skills, and research proficiencies. Our department also aims to help students acquire social responsibility and develop scientific ethical values.
The compulsory courses of our program that focus on the main sociological concepts, perspectives, and social research methods are accompanied by a wide range of departmental and non-departmental elective courses. The elective courses allow students to specialize in areas of their interest and help them develop an interdisciplinary perspective.
Our students gain the main sociological skills not only through the courses, but also through participating in research projects. The department encourages active participation of the students to the researches and research projects conducted by the faculty. Students also gain sociological experience both by conducting their own research projects and by carrying out the compulsory summer internship at different institutions and companies.
The research interests of our faculty members, who have degrees from the leading international and Turkish universities, concentrate on social movements, social change, culture, media, rural development, sociology of food, migration, urban sociology, sociology of art, sociology of gender, and environmental sociology.
Prof. Dr. Hayriye Özen
Department Chair
NEWS |ALL NEWS

Our Student Talks about His Erasmus Experience
“From my childhood until today, Erasmus has grown from small to small like a sapling in my thoughts. When I look at

Our Student Selen Talks about Her Erasmus Experience
Let's listen to the experiences of our student Selen, who spent the 2021-2022 spring semester in Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium as an

We Have Attended to the Sociology of Crime Course Held by College of DuPage
We have attended to the Sociology of Crime course held by College of DuPage online. In this course, we watched the documentary

2022-2023 Spring Semester Elective Courses
The list of elective courses that will be taught at the Sociology Department in 2022-2023 Spring Semester is as follows: SOC 260-Sociology of

Sociology Department Seminar has been Carried Out
Our department hosted Dr. Stacie Haen-Darden's seminar titled as "The Benefits of Education and Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice". We are thankful for

Sociology Seminar: Transnational Migration and Sense of Belonging: The case of the Turks of Bulgaria"
In our sociology seminar this week, we welcome Dr. Özge Kaytan who will be giving a seminar titled as "Transnational Migration and

Sociology Seminar: The Benefits of Education and Rehabilitation in Juvenile Justice
In our sociology seminar this week, we welcome Stacie Haen-Darden from the College of Dupage, who is also a visiting researcher at

Sociology Undergraduate Program is Accredited by FEDEK
Sociology undergraduate program has been accredited by FEDEK, an independent institution of accreditation, until 30 September 2028.