The course aims to introduce students to the field of political sociology as a basis for political science.

Political Sociology, a field where Political Science and Sociology overlap, aims to examine the invisible sociological field behind political phenomena and processes. For this purpose, it deals with the problematic of how to deal with actors, institutions and processes in this field, taking into account different theoretical approaches.

Lecture

• Rogers Brubaker (1987), The Limits of Rationality, Routlegde: London, New York, pp. 8-48 • Michel Foucault (1995), Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison, Vintage Books: New York, s. 135-169. • Erik Olin Wright (1994), “Class and Politics”, (in) Interrogating Inequality: Essays on Class Analysis, Socialism, and Marxism, Verso: London, pp. 88- 106. • Benedetto Fontana (2008), “Hegemony and Power in Gramsci”, (in) Hegemony. Studies in Consensus and Coercion, Routledge: New York, pp. 80-101. • T.H. Marshall (1950), Citizenship and Social Class, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 1-85 • Asbjørn Wahl (2001), The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State, Pluto Press: London, pp. 20-42. • Wendy Brown (1992), “Finding the Man in the State”, Feminist Studies, 18(1): 7-34. [only in English. Focus particularly on the section between 17-28]. • Cenk Saraçoğlu (2010), “The changing image of the Kurds in Turkish cities: middle- class perceptions of Kurdish migrants in İzmir”, Patterns of Prejudice, 44(3): 239-260. • Cenk Saraçoğlu & Danièle Bélanger (2019), “Loss and xenophobia in the city: contextualizing anti-Syrian sentiments in Izmir, Turkey”, Patterns of Prejudice, 53(4): 363-383.