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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