FATOŞ GÖKŞEN
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Koç
University in Istanbul, TURKEY
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SOC460: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
Problems in production, distribution and
sale of information within and outside formally structured markets;
factors of cultural production and the role of communication in the
process of social control, agenda setting, issue framing, construction
of social reality, and public opinion.
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SOC402: SOCIOLOGY OF
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION:
Examination of the sociology of the communicator,
audience, content, effects , flow and diffusion research, and communication
as a social process. The role of communication and information technology,
relations between economics, technology, power, and culture.
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SOC302: ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS:
Innovation, survival, authority and
control in organizations, voluntary organizations and government
institutions.
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SOC 204:
INTRODUCTION TO POPULATION:
Population fertility, mortality and migration; dynamics of social
change; demographic underpinnings of several major issues confronting
the world; population growth and women, urbanization, environment and
sustainable economic development.
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SOCI/PSYCH 201: SCIENTIFIC METHODS IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES
This course is designed to accomplish
three closely related goals: (1) to introduce students to research
process and some basic research concepts, (2) to provide students with
critical framework to examine problems of social science and to evaluate
social science research, (3) to offer the students opportunities to gain
some first-hand experiences in formulating a social science question.
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