Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SBK1110 2. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals The main object of this course is to provide the students with the fundamental knowledge and experience of social research processes including designing, conducting, analyzing and writing a research paper.
Course Content Within the epistemological debates, fundamental concepts that come front overwhelmingly consititute the basic literature of the social sciences as well. These debates are mostly engendered by quite important epistemological concepts and practices which make up the historical background and basis of social research that are often overlooked by researchers. The first part of the course is devoted those debates. In the second part of the course is directly related to the social research designs.
Learning Outcomes 1) Providing students with social research methods and experinces
2) Independently doing research, project, interview, questionnaire in academic level
3) gaining methodological knowledge for the social sciences

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week 1.Roots of modern scientific thought and origins of modern sciences 2. Qualitfications of scientific knowledge Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion; Case Study

Project Based Learning; Problem Based Learning; Case Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
2. Week Development of Knowledge as Subject-Object Relation:Rationalism, Emprism. Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week 1.Primary Epistemological Approaches in Social Sciences a.Positivism: Comte and Durkheim b.Methodology Conflicts and Interpretative Tradition Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week 1.c. Epistemology of Weber Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week d. Critical Theory: Frankfurt School and Jurgen Habermas Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Etnography Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Preparing Research Paper Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Social Research 1. Basics concepts of research process 2. Designing quantitative research a.Epistemological basis of quantitative research b.Techniques of quantitative data gathering and data analysis Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week 3. Designing qualitative research a. Epistemological basis of qualitative research b. techniques of qualitative data search and data analysis Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week 4. Thinking with qualitative and quantitative design together Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Social Research Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Social Research Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Social Research Lecture

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General evaluation Lecture; Question Answer

 Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
BAERT Patrick, Sosyal Bilimler Felsefesi, çev. Ü. Tatlıcan, İstanbul: Küre, 2013 Becker, H.S.. Mesleğin İncelikleri. Ank: Heretik, 2014. BENTON Ted, Sosyolojinin Felsefi Kökenleri, çev. Ü. Tatlıcan, İstanbul: Küre, 2013 CEVİZCİ Ahmet, Felsefe Tarihi: Thales’ten Baudrillard’a, İstanbul: Say, 2010. -------------, Bilgi Felsefesi, İstanbul: Say, 2012. CRAIB Ian, BENTON Ted, Sosyal Bilim Felsefesi, çev. B. Binay, İstanbul: Sentez, 2008. EMERSON vd., Bütün Yönleriyle Alan Çalışması: Etnografik Alan Notları Yazımı, Ankara: Birleşik Yayınları, 2008. GÖKBERK Macit, Felsefe Tarihi, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, 2012. Keat, R ve J. Urry , Bilim Olarak Sosyal Teori. Ank: İmge Yayınları KUŞ Elif, Nicel-Nitel Araştırma Teknikleri, Ankara: Anı, 2009. KÜÇÜK Mehmet, Modernite Versus PostModernite, İstanbul: Say Yayınları, 2011 Öktem, N ve E. Karagöz, Sosyal Bilimde Yönten. İst: Astana Yayınları, 2015. ÖZLEM Doğan, Felsefe ve Doğa Bilimleri, İstanbul: Doğu Batı, 2013 Neumann, L.W, Toplumsa Araştırma Yöntemleri. İst: Yayınodası, 2013. -----------, Kültür Bilimleri ve Kültür Felsefesi, İstanbul: Doğu Batı, 2000. PUNCH Keith, Sosyal Araştırmalara Giriş: Nicel ve Nitel Yaklaşımlar, çev. Z. Akyüz, Bayrak, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi, 2005. YILDIRIM Cemal, Bilim Felsefesi, İstanbul: Remzi, 2010. YALÇINKAYA Ayhan, Mazerete Mahal Yok: Sosyal Bilimler Lisans Öğrencileri İçin Eğlenceli(k) Bir Ödev Klavuzu, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi Yay., 2004.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 2
Homework 1 15
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 1 5
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 3 5
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 5 7
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