FDB852 Consumer Culture and Religion

6 ECTS - 3-0 Duration (T+A)- . Semester- 3 National Credit

Information

Code FDB852
Name Consumer Culture and Religion
Semester . Semester
Duration (T+A) 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS 6 ECTS
National Credit 3 National Credit
Teaching Language Türkçe
Level Doktora Dersi
Type Normal
Mode of study Yüz Yüze Öğretim
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Course Goal

The aim of this course to study relationship of consumer culture and religion in the context of the secularization theory.

Course Content

In this course, consumer culture will be examined in context of secularization theory. In this course, religion and consumption, market, modernities, ınvisible religion, market Islam, Islamic culture industry also will be examined.

Course Precondition

to be a registered student in the graduate program

Resources

DEMİREZEN, İsmail (2011). Consumption and Religion, İstanbul: Fotografika Yayıncılık; ISMAIL, Salwa (2004). “Being Muslim: Islam, Islamism and Identity Politics”, Government and Opposition, Vol.39(4), s.614-631; HADDORFF, D.W. (2000) Religion and the Market: Opposition, Absorption or Ambiguity?, Review of Social Economy 58(4), s.483-504

Notes

ARNOULD, Eric J.; Craig THOMPSON, (2005). “Consumer Culture Theory(CCT): Twenty Years of Research” Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.31, s.868–888. GÖLE, Nilüfer (1997) “The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere”, Public Culture, 10(1), s.61-81. CORRIGAN, Peter (1997). The Sociology of Consumption An Introduction, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage Publications. GÖKARIKSEL, Banu; Ellen MCLARNEY, (2010). “Introduction: Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism, and the Islamic Culture Industry”, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studıes, Vol.6, No.3, s.1-18; DİRLİK, Arif (2003). “Modernity in Question? Culture and Religion in an Age of Global Modernity”, Diaspora, 12(2), s.147-168. GÖKARIKSEL, Banu; Anna J. SECOR (2009). “New Transnational Geographies of Islamism, Capitalism and Subjectivity: The Veiling-Fashion Industry in Turkey”, Area, Vol.41 No.1, s.6–18; GÖKARIKSEL, Banu; Anna SECOR (2010a). “Islamicness in the Life of a Commodity: Veiling-Fashion in Turkey”, Trans Inst Br Geogr NS, 35, s.313-333. GÖKARIKSEL, Banu; Anna SECOR, (2010b). Between Fashion and Tesettür: Marketing and Consuming Women’s Islamic Dress, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol.6, No.3, s.118-148.


Course Learning Outcomes

Order Course Learning Outcomes
LO01 To increase the ability of the student to talk and comment on the main topics of the lecture.
LO02 To provide students with basic concepts, institutions and theories about consumer culture in term of sociology of religion.
LO03 To teach the methodology that they should follow when they want to do scientific studies in the sociology of religion
LO04 To make correct sociological descriptions and depictions by establishing the right connections and causal relations between social events and facts.


Relation with Program Learning Outcome

Order Type Program Learning Outcomes Level
PLO01 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Deepen the ability to use the basic concepts of the field in a specific area. 3
PLO02 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Evaluates the literature in national and international level.
PLO03 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Makes research in literature.
PLO04 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Uses the equipments used in the studies in the field.
PLO05 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Develops research proposals based on the literature. 3
PLO06 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Analyze, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas related to the field.
PLO07 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Can do original research in the field.
PLO08 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Determines a topic from the proposals and develops a report on this topic.
PLO09 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Discuss and present the research report. 3
PLO10 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Using individual and team work skills in national and international projects
PLO11 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Doctorate proficiency exam can produce results from the sources obtained during the preparatory work.
PLO12 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Interpret the acquired knowledge in written and oral form. 3
PLO13 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Effective use of a foreign language to follow international literature in the field
PLO14 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal He / She knows the basic sources of his / her forehead to use in scientific studies.
PLO15 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Can work independently and as a member of a team.
PLO16 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Follow ethical rules
PLO17 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal To be able to follow the international literature related to his / her field in written and oral communication and to have foreign language knowledge.


Week Plan

Week Topic Preparation Methods
1 Consumer Culture and religion Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım
2 Invısıble Religion in the Context consumer culture, The increasing visibility of religiosity Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
3 Capitalism Axis Consumer Culture and Religious Lifestyles Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap
4 The Changing Discourse of Islam and Positioning Request in the Modern World Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap
5 Islamic Transformation of Identity Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
6 transformation in the context of Subject, Object, Meta Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
7 Consumer Culture and Practice of Veiling Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap
8 Mid-Term Exam Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
9 Veiling of Women and subjectivity in public visibility Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
10 Religiosity, consumption and classical habitus: conservative fashion Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap
11 Islamization of holiday, secularization of Everyday Life Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
12 Transformation of religiosity in the context of Consumption and Perception of religiosity Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
13 Religious and secular: vague association Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Soru-Cevap
14 Secularity, cultural consumption Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
15 forms of new religiosity Reading of the relevant sections of the textbook and recommended resources Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma
16 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
17 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav


Student Workload - ECTS

Works Number Time (Hour) Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 5 70
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 15 15
Final Exam 1 30 30
Total Workload (Hour) 157
Total Workload / 25 (h) 6,28
ECTS 6 ECTS