ECTS - Social Movements in a Globalizing World

Social Movements in a Globalizing World (POEC634) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Social Movements in a Globalizing World POEC634 General Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language Turkish
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Ph.D.
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Gürsan Şenalp
Course Assistants
Course Objectives This study focuses on local, national, and transnational social movements emerged within the globalizing world. It critically examines mainstream theoretical perspectives on social movements in light of the experience of these movements.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To understand changing global politics
  • To understand new social grievances and demands as well as new political opportunities in the globalized world.
  • To understand the last wave of social movements
Course Content Local, national and transnational social movements against globalization; the emergence and development of these social movements; the role of social movements in transforming globalization.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
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2 The emergence of social movements Charles Tilly, 2008. Toplumsal Hareketler, Babil Yayınevi, 2. ve 3. Ünite Arif Dirlik. 2008. “Pasifik Perspektifinde Toplumsal Hareketler: Çağdaş Radikal Siyasetin Soyağacı Üzerine Düşünceler” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, s. 65- 83.
3 Politics and Social movements Charles Tilly, 2008. Toplumsal Hareketler, Babil Yayınevi, 1. ve 6. Ünite Doğan Çetinkaya. 2008. “Tarih ve Kuram Arasında Toplumsal Hareketler” Toplumsal Hareketler: Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, s.15-61
4 Collective Behavior tradition Sembolik Etkileşimci Kolektif Davranışçılık ve Yapısal İşlevselci Kolektif Davranışçılık Blumer, Herbert (1955). “Social Movements,” in A. McClung Lee, ed., Principles of Sociology. New York: Barnes & Noble. Smelser, Neil (1962). Theory of Collective Behavior. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
5 Rationalist tradition: Resource Mobilization Approach James Jasper. 2002. Ahlaki Protesto Sanatı, çev. Senem Öner, İstanbul, Ayrıntı, s. 56-71. Oberschall, Anthony (1973). Social Conflict and Social Movements. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. McCarthy, John, and Mayer Zald (1977). “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory,” American Journal of Sociology 82: 1212-1241 Jenkins, J. Craig, and Charles Perrow (1977). “Insurgency of the Powerless: The Farm Worker Movements 1946- 1972,” American Sociological Review 42: 249-68.
6 Rationalist tradition: Political Process Approach James Jasper. 2002. Ahlaki Protesto Sanatı, çev. Senem Öner, İstanbul, Ayrıntı, s. 71- 80. McAdam, Doug (1982). Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency 1930-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Tarrow, Sidney (1998). Power in Movement: Social Movement and Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tilly, Charles (1978). From Mobilization to Revolution. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
7 Rationalist tradition: Framing Approaches James Jasper. 2002. Ahlaki Protesto Sanatı, çev. Senem Öner, İstanbul, Ayrıntı, s. 126-149. Snow, David A. and Robert D. Benford (1988). “Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization,” International Social Movement Research 1: 197-217. Snow, David A. and Robert D. Benford (2000).“Clarifying the Relationship between Framing and Ideology in the Study of Social Movements: A Comment on Oliver and Johnston,” Retrieved March 22, 2004, from .http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/PROTESTS/ArticleCopies/SnowBenford Response.pdf. Snow, David A., and Robert D. Benford (1992). “Master Frames and Cycles of Protest,” in Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller, eds., Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 133-55. Snow, David A., E. Burke Rochford, Steven K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford (1986). “Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation,” American Sociological Review 51: 456-81.
8 Synthetic Approaches McAdam, Doug (1996a). “Conceptual Origins, Current Problems, Future Directions,” in Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Cambridge University Press. McAdam, Doug, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, (1996b). “Introduction:Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Framing Processes-Toward a Synthetic, Comparative Perspective on Social Moevments,” in Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Cambridge University Press. McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly (1996a). “Towards An Integrated Perspective on Social Movements and Revolution,” Working Papers, Lazasfeld Center at Columbia University. McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly (2001). Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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10 Constructionist tradition: Melucci and New Social Movements approach James Jasper. 2002. Ahlaki Protesto Sanatı, çev. Senem Öner, İstanbul, Ayrıntı, s. 120-126. Melucci, Alberto (1985). “The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements,” Social Research 52(4): 789-816. Melucci, Alberto (1994). “A Strange Kind of Newness: What’s ‘New’ in new Social Movements?” in Enrique Larana, Hank Johnston, and Joe Gusfield, eds., New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Melucci, Alberto (1995a). “The New Social Movements Revisited,” in Louis Maheu, ed., Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Collective Action. London: Sage. Melucci, Alberto (1995b). “The Process of Collective Identity,” in Hank Johnston, and Bert Klandermans, eds., Social Movements and Culture. London: UCL Press. Melucci, Alberto (1996). Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11 Constructionist tradition: Touraine and New Social Movements approach Touraine, Alain (1985). “An Introduction to the Study of Social Movements,” Social Research 52(4): 749-88. Touraine, Alain (1991). “Commentary on Dieter Rucht’s Critique,” in Dieter Rucht, ed. Research on Social Movements: The State of Art in Western Europe and the USA. Boulder: Westview Press. Touraine, Alain (2002). “The Importance of Social Movements,” Social Movement Studies 1(1): 90-95.
12 Globalization and Social Movements Charles Tilly. 2008. “Toplumsal Hareketler 21. Yüzyıla Giriyor” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, 143-187. Sidney Tarrow. 2008. “Köklü Kozmopolitler ve Ulusötesi Aktivistler” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, 113- 141.
13 Globalization and Social Movements James Petras. 2002. Küreselleşme ve Direniş. Cosmopolitik Kitaplığı, s. 137-141 ve 182-212. John Foran. 2008. “Devrim ve Küreselleşme: Chiapas’tan Seattle ve Ötesine” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, s. 85- 111.
14 Globalization and Social Movements Ahmet Bekmen. 2008. “Yok Olmanın (!) Diyalektiği: Via Campesina ve Gıda Egemenliği” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim, 189- 218. Hayriye Özen. 2009. “Bergama Mücadelesi: Doğuşu, Gelişimi ve Sonuçları”, Atılım Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi e-Bülten 4(14).
15 Globalization and Social Movements. ocial Movement Studies (2012), Special Issue: Occupy, Social Movement Studies 11(3-4). Society and Space (2012) Forum on the ‘Occupy’ movement, Society and Space—Environment and Planning D, http://societyandspace.com/2011/11/18/forum-on-the-occupy-movement Gessen, K., Astra, Taylor, Eli Schmitt, Nikil Saval, Sarah Resnick, Sarah Leonard, Mark Greif, ve Carla Blumenkranz (Der.) (2011), Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America (London: Verso). Delclós, Carlos ve Raimundo Viejo (2012), ”Beyond the Indignation: Spain's Indignado's and the Political Agenda,” Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review 15: 92-100. Byrne, Mick, Patrick Bresnihan ve Richard McAleavey (2011), Crisis and Revolution in Europe (Madrid: Observatorio Metropolitano of Madrid).
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Sources

Course Book 1. Charles Tilly, 2008. Toplumsal Hareketler, Babil Yayınevi,
2. Arif Dirlik. 2008. “Pasifik Perspektifinde Toplumsal Hareketler: Çağdaş Radikal Siyasetin Soyağacı Üzerine Düşünceler” Toplumsal Hareketler:Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim
3. Doğan Çetinkaya. 2008. “Tarih ve Kuram Arasında Toplumsal Hareketler” Toplumsal Hareketler: Tarih, Teori, Deneyim, der. Doğan Çetinkaya, İstanbul: İletişim
4. Blumer, Herbert (1955). “Social Movements,” in A. McClung Lee, ed., Principles of Sociology. New York: Barnes & Noble.
5. Smelser, Neil (1962). Theory of Collective Behavior. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 1 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation 2 30
Project 1 20
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 20
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 20
Toplam 6 100
Percentage of Semester Work 80
Percentage of Final Work 20
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 To compare main theories and/or approaches in political economy and make a critical evaluation of each X
2 To compare main macroeconomic theories and/or approaches and make a critical evaluation of each X
3 To use complementary approaches from other relevant disciplines (e.g. political science, sociology) in order to solve problems requiring scientific expertise X
4 To develop the skills for establishing a micro-macro link in human and social sciences X
5 To analyze the main economic indicators and comment on them X
6 To acquire theoretical knowledge through literature survey and derive empirically testable hypothesis X
7 To be able to develop new approaches/theories for complex problems in political economy X
8 To apply critical thinking, statistical/econometric tools or other relevant quantitative and qualitative tools to new areas/problems X
9 To make a research design and carry it out within predetermined time frames X
10 To formulate and present policy recommendations based on academic research X
11 To continue learning and undertake advanced research independently X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 4 64
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 2 2
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 3 3
Total Workload 117