COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology of Law | LAW 210 | Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Law |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | 1. To provide students with the ability to consider the subject of law within 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 students' ability to analyze the legal results of social processes and the 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 sciences. |
| Course Contents: | This course aims to approach law as the subject of sociology of law, 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 social reality from the perspective provided by the method of the social sciences. To ground such an analysis, we will examine historical perspectives within the context of their approaches to the origin of law and the relation between law and society by referring to the pioneers of social theory. Then, we will emphasize the social processes where the law appears both as a result and a factor. In this regard, our concern will be to examine the effects of legal norms on social institutions and society as a whole, along with the impact of social relations and actual conditions on bringing into being, upholding, changing, or removing legal norms. And within this framework, we will analyze the connection of law with the primary 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 reproducing social inequalities and in eliminating these inequalities through social change. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lectures, discussions with the active participation of students, and case studies |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A brief introduction to sociology of law | Pre-course reading material |
| 2 | Society as the subject matter of sociology | Pre-course reading material |
| 3 | Basic concepts of sociology of law | Pre-course reading material |
| 4 | Law as a social institution | Pre-course reading material |
| 5 | Structure and culture: Societal norms, cultural values and legal rules | Pre-course reading material |
| 6 | Methodological perspectives in sociology | Pre-course reading material |
| 7 | Pioneers of social theory: Saint-Simon and Comte | Pre-course reading material |
| 8 | Emile Durkheim: Division of labour, social solidarity and law | Pre-course reading material |
| 9 | Max Weber: Typology of law | Pre-course reading material |
| 10 | Karl Marx: Law as an institution of the superstructure | Pre-course reading material |
| 11 | Law’s social functions | Pre-course reading material |
| 12 | Social identities and law | Pre-course reading material |
| 13 | Social inequalities and law | Pre-course reading material |
| 14 | Social movements, social change and law | Pre-course reading material |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Course materials will be uploaded on KHAS Learn weekly. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| BLACK Donald, The Behavior of Law, Emerald, 2010 COMTE Auguste, Introduction to Positive Philosophy, Hackett Pub., 1988 COTTERRELL Roger, The Sociology of Law: An Introduction, Butterworths, 1992 CROSSLEY Nick, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, SAGE, 2010 DEFLEM Mathieu, Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2010 DURKHEIM Émile, Rules of Sociological Method, Free Press, 1982 DURKHEIM Émile, The Division of Labor in Society, Free Press, 1997 FULCHER James, SCOTT John, Sociology, Oxford University Press, 2007 GIDDENS Anthony, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. An Analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, University Press, 1971 MORRISON Ken, Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of Modern Social Thought, SAGE, 2011 ROBERTS Ken, Key Concepts in Sociology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 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 | 3 | 42 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 17 | 17 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
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 | PQ11 | PQ12 |
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High