FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Sociology
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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
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Department of Sociology Panel: Landrace Seeds and Collective Action
Sociology department warmly invites you to the online panel titled “Landrace Seeds and Collective Action”. The panelists are Nurcan Atalan Helicke from
Seminar Invitation
Sociology department warmly invites you to the online seminar on ‘the future of work’. The speaker will be Dr. Ödül Bozkurt from the University of
Panel Invitation
On the 9th of December at 2.20 PM, we will listen to Line Algoed and Cesar Escalona with moderation from Gökçe Sanul in
Seminar Invitation
Seminar Invitation Turkey is a major refugee recipient country and İzmir is one of the strategic cities in order to understand refugees’ experiences.
We Bid Farewell to Our 2019-2020 Graduates
Since the gradution ceremony couldn't be hold this year due to COVID-19 pandemic, we bid our graduates farewell with a digital meeting.
New Publication
Derya Nizam’s co-authored article (with Fatih Tatari) titled as “Rural revitalization through territorial distinctiveness: The use of geographical indications in Turkey” has
The Last of the Sociology Forums will be Held on 29th of May
Sociology Forums that we held throught May is going to be concluded with the last episode titled as “Cities and Socio-spatial Relationships
The Fourth of the Sociology Forums will be Held on 22nd of May
The Fourth of the Sociology Forums, titled as "Pandemic Between West and Rest: Thinking East-West Dichotomies Through Covid-19" which will be moderated
The Third of the Sociology Forums will be Held on 18th of May
Sociology Forums, in which we are discussing the social effects of outbreaks specific to Covid-19 outbreak will be continuing with the third
The Sociology Forums Continue on the 11th of May!
Sociology Forums, in which we are talking about the relations between outbreaks and society specific to Covid-19 outbreak will be continuing with the
The First of the Sociology Forums is on the 4th of May!
The first of the Sociology Forums, titled "All that is solid melts into air: Covid-19 outbreak and social change" is going to be moderated
Sociology Forums Will Be Held Through May
Sociology Forums, in which we will be talking about the social effects of outbreaks specific to Covid-19 outbreak will be held throughout
New Publication
Hayriye Özen. 2020. 'Reproducing 'hegemony' thereafter? The long-term political effects of the Gezi protests in Turkey'. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2020.1745417
New Publication
Nuran Erol Işık’s Evaluating Narrativization Practices in Turkish TV serials as a Venue of Popular Historiography titled article has beed published in
New Publication
Derya Nizam’s co-authored article (with Prof. Dr. Zafer Yenal, Boğaziçi University) on seed activism and Karakilcik wheat has been published in the
New Publication
Hayriye Özen’s co-authored article (with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burak Doğu, İzmir University of Economy) on social movements has been published in “Democratization”