COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology of Law | LW 360 | Spring | 03+01+00 | Compulsory | 3 | 4 |
| Academic Unit: | Law |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Reyda ERGÜN |
| Course Objectives: | 1. To provide students with an external perspective on law by considering the subject of law within the context of its functioning as a social institution and its connection with other institutions. 2. To provide students with the ability to comprehend law in its social reality. 3. To improve and enrich the students' ability of analyzing the legal results of social processes and social effects of legal processes. 4. To introduce students to the instruments to deal with the problem of the source of law by using the methodology of social science. 5. To train lawyers with creative skills, who are able to use law as a tool of social transformation by analyzing social problems correctly. |
| Course Contents: | The aim of this course is to approach to law the subject matter of sociology oflaw, namely as a social institution, within its relations with other social institutions. In other words, the objective of this course is to analyze law's empirical existence or its social reality with a point of view provided by the method of social sciences. In order to ground such an analysis, in this course we will examine historical perspectives within the context of their approaches on the origin of law and the relation between law and society, by referring to the work of the pioneers of social theory. Then, we will emphasize on the social processes where law appears both as a result and a factor. In this regard, our concern is to examine the effects of legal norms on social institutions and society as a whole, along with the effects of social relations and actual conditions on bringing into being, upholding, changing or removing of legal norms. And within this framework, we will analyze the connection of law with the basic subject matters of sociology like social stratification, social control, social conflict, social order, and social identities. At the same time, we will examine the role of law both in the reproduction of social inequalities and in the eliminiation of these inequalities by social change. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lectures and discussions through active participation of students |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation | LO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is the Sociology of Law? | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 2 | A Brief Introduction to Sociology | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 3 | Basic Concepts of Sociology of Law | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 4 | The Methodology of Sociology of Law as a Social Science | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 5 | Law as a Social Institution | None. | 2-3-5 |
| 6 | Methodological Grounds: Saint-Simon and Comte | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 7 | Emile Durkheim: The Division Labour and Social Solidarity | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 8 | Max Weber: Typology of Law | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 9 | Karl Marx: Law as an Element of the Superstructure | None. | 1-2-4 |
| 10 | Social Functions of Law | None. | 2-3-5 |
| 11 | Foucoult and Sociology of Control | None. | 2-3-5 |
| 12 | Social Identities and Law | None. | 2-3-5 |
| 13 | Social Inequality and Law | None. | 2-3-5 |
| 14 | Social Movements, Social Change and Law | None. | 2-3-5 |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| DEFLEM Mathieu, Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| COMTE Auguste, Introduction to Positive Philosophy, Hackett Pub., 1988. COOPER Frank Rudy, Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach, New York University Press, 2012. COTTERNELL Roger, The Sociology of Law: An Introduction, Butterworths, 1992. DURKHEIM Emile, Rules of Sociological Method, Free Press, 1982. DURKHEIM Emile, The Division of Labor in Society, Free Press, 1997. FINEMAN Martha, Feminist and Queer Legal Theory, Ashgate, 2009. FOUCOULT Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Vintage Books, 1995. FULCHER James, SCOTT John, Sociology, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007. LEVIT Nancy, The Gender Line: Men, Women, and the Law, New York University Press, 1998. VAGO Steven, Law and Society, Prentice Hall, 2000. WACKS Raymond, Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory, Oxford University Press, New York 2012. WEBER Max, Basic Concepts of Sociology, Citadel Press, 2002. |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total: | 2 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Practice / Exercise | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 100 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 |
| LO1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| LO2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| LO3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| LO4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| LO5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High