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| Code | FDB852 |
| Name | Consumer Culture and Religion |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Term | Spring |
| 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 |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | |
| Course Instructor |
1 |
Course Goal / Objective
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||