Educational Sociology (EDUC211)
Basic concepts of sociology: society, social structure, social phenomenon, social event and etc; leaders of sociology (İbn-i Haldun, A. Comte, K. Marx, E. Durkheim, M. Weber etc) and their educational views; education from the perspective of main theories of sociology (functionalism, structuralism, symbolic interactionism, conflict theory, critical theory, phenomenology and ethnomethodology); social processes (socialization, social stratifications, social mobility, social transition,etc) and education; social institutions (family, religion, economy,politics) and education; development of education and educational sociology in Turkey (Ziya Gökalp, İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu, Nurettin Topçu, Mümtaz Turhan etc.) culture and education; school as a social, cultural, moral system and community.