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SOC 423 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name

Social Movements

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
SOC 423	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	6

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Discussion Case Study Q&A Lecture / Presentation
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	Prof. Dr. Hayriye ÖZEN
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives	This course aims to introduce major sociological concepts and debates about the formation, dynamics and consequences of social movements. In order to help students learn to use the main concepts and theories to analyze social movements, it also focuses on the waves of social movements and protests that have emerged since the 1960s.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; · describe social and political conditions making the emergence of movements possible. · discuss how socio-political context influences the shape of social movements. · classify main social movement theories that have shaped the way we make sense of social movements. · classify main social movement theories that have shaped the way we make sense of social movements. · explain the relations between social movements and social change.
Course Description	This course deals with social movements and protests. It, first, introduces the main social movement theories that have been formulated to make sense of the social movements generated since the mid-twentieth century. Then, by employing the insights of these theories, it examines the waves of movements and protests that marked their imprint on the social world since the 1960s. It tries to understand how these waves of movements were mobilized within specific socio-political contexts, which social groups were the main constituents of these movements, and to what extent they produced social, economic, political and cultural effects.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Introduction and Overview of the Course
2	The Study of Social Movements	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 1-29. Hayriye Özen. 2013. ‘Toplumsal Hareketlerin ‘Siyasal’ Rolü: Rasyonalist Yaklaşımların Eleştirel bir Değerlendirmesi’ SBF Dergisi 68 (3), 37- 61.
3	Social Changes and Social Movements	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 33-62. Hayriye Özen. 2015. Located Locally, disseminated Nationally: the Bergama Movement’ Environmental Politics 18 (3), 408- 423.
4	The Symbolic Dimension of Collective Action	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 64- 87. Hayriye Özen. 2017. ‘What Makes Locals Protesters? A Discursive analysis of two cases in gold-mining industry in Turkey’ World Development 90, 256- 268.
5	Collective Action and Identity	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 89-113.
6	Networks and Organizations	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 114- 161. Christopher Roots. 2008. ‘The Environmental Movement’ in M Klimke and J Scharloth (eds) 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977
7	Repertoire of Actions and Cycles of Protests	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 163- 191.
8	Midterm
9	The Policing of protest and political opportunities	Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani 2020, 193- 221. Hayriye Özen. 2018. ‘What comes after repression? The hegemonic contestation in the gold-mining field in Turkey’ Geoforum 88, 1-9. Hayriye Özen and Burak Doğu. 2020. Mobilizing in a hybrid political system: the Artvin case in Turkey’ Democratization 27 (4), 624- 642.
10	Changing Forms of Activism	Manuel Castells (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, Polity. Cambridge. Blühdorn, Ingolfur, and Michael Deflorian (2021). Politicisation beyond post-politics: new social activism and the reconfiguration of political discourse. Social Movement Studies Burak Doğu, Hayriye Özen and Begüm Pasin. 2022. ‘Environmental Mobilization through Online Networks: An analysis of Environmental Activism on Turkey’s Twittersphere’ International Journal of Communication 16, 5247- 5269.
11	Contemporary Waves of Protest: Square Movements	Ernesto Castaneda (2012) ‘The indignados of Spain: a precedent to occupy wall street’, Social Movement Studies, vol. 11, no. 3–4, pp. 309–319. Hayriye Özen. 2015. ‘Meydan Hareketleri ve ‘eski’ ve ‘yeni’ toplumsal hareketler’ Mülkiye Dergisi 39 (2), 11- 40.
12	Contemporary Waves of Protest: Square Movements	Christina Flesher Fominaya. 2020. ‘Movements after the Crash: A Global Wave of Protest’, Chapter 7.
13	Global Diffusion of Protests	Christina Flesher Fominaya. 2020. ‘Globalization and Social Movements’, Chapter 2.
14	Populism and Social movements	Paolo Gerbaudo (2014) ‘Populism 2.0’, in Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, eds C. Fuchs & D. Trottier, Routledge, London, pp. 16, 67. Hayriye Özen (2015) ‘An unfinished grassroots populism: the Gezi Park protests in Turkey and their aftermath’, South European society and Politics 20 (4), 533- 552.
15	Review of the semester
16	Final Exam

Course Notes/Textbooks

The reading list in this form.

There is no a single textbook used in this course. The reading list includes a range of book chapters and journal articles.

Suggested Readings/Materials

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	40
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm	1	30
Final Exam	1	30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	2	70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade	1	30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

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		0
Study Hours Out of Class	15	3	45
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	1	20	20
Presentation / Jury			0
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms	1	27	27
Final Exam	1	40	40
		Total	180

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes		* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes		1	2	3	4	5
1	To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories.		X	-	-	-	-
2	To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods.		X	-	-	-	-
3	To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology.		-	X	-	-	-
4	To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team.		-	-	-	-	-
5	To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination.		-	-	-	-	X
6	To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions.		-	X	-	-	-
7	To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research.		-	-	-	-	-
8	To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.		X	-	-	-	-
9	To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences.		-	X	-	-	-
10	To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research.		X	-	-	-	-
11	To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).		-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently.		-	-	-	-	-
13	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.		-	-	-	-	-

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

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