ECTS - Philosophy and Sociology of Law

Philosophy and Sociology of Law (LAW436) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Philosophy and Sociology of Law LAW436 4 0 0 4 6
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language Turkish
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Instructor Hasan Serdar Hoş
Course Assistants
Course Objectives A student should be a person who can design law, not only a practicing it. The students will have a base to understand and discuss the actual and historical juridical and political problems and will reinforce their senses of justice, will learn that law is not only composed of rules, but also whole ideological and social structure.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Gain knowledge about the sources of law
  • - Dominate the basic concepts of law and legal terminology
  • Establish connections between law, justice and society
  • Comprehend the different opinions about the origin of the law
Course Content The foundations of society, social inequality, social institutions, social change; natural law theory, the formal understanding of law: legal positivism.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
2 Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
3 İdealism and materialism Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
4 The relationship between law and other social norms Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
5 Natural Law and Natural Rights Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
6 Short History of Natural law Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
7 Freedom as a criterion of legitimacy in a legal systems Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
8 Midterm
9 Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
10 Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
11 Sociology and Sociology of Law Law as a Social Control Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
12 Free Research School, Historical School, LegalRealism,Sociological Jurisprudence Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
13 History from Sociology to Law Durkheim, Weber vand Marx Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
14 Positive Law as a Sociological reality Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
15 Final Exam

Sources

Course Book 1. Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks
2. Hukuk Felsefesi / Adnan Güriz
3. Hukuk Felsefesi / Yasemin Işıktaç
6. Hukuk Sosyolojisi / Yasemin Işıktaç - Umut Koloş
7. Hukuk Sosyolojisi'ne Giriş / Mehmet Tevfik Özcan
8. Hukuk Sosyolojisi Yazıları / Mehmet Yüksel
15. Öktem, Niyazi/Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi /Felsefe, Sosyoloji, Hukuk ve Devlet
Other Sources 4. Saf Hukuk Kuramı/ Hans Kelsen
5. Adalet, Yapılması Gereken Doğru Şey Nedir? / Michael J. Sandel
9. Sosyoloji / Anthony Giddens
10. Protestan Ahlakı ve Kapitalizmin Ruhu / Max Weber
11. Bürokrasi ve Otorite / Max Weber
12. Sosyoloji / Richard T. Schaefer
13. Komünist Partisi Manifestosu / Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
14. Toplumsal İşbölümü / Emile Durkheim

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 70
Toplam 2 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Skills to understand, compare and paraphrase the basic concepts of law as a jurist following common principles of law. X
2 Skills to solve problems using a critical point of view when necessary , to determine and analyse the theoretical and implementation problems of law. X
3 Contribution to understanding, planning, exercising and coordinating the functionss of law, by explaining and practising. X
4 Skills to understand the strategic, tactical and practical sides of private and public law. X
5 Skills to understand the local, national, international, universal and supranational sides of private and public law. X
6 Skills to understand the modern methods and differences of law. X
7 Skills to participate in/inter disciplinary group works succesfully. X
8 Skills to adopt open minded behaviors in the way of learning and attempting. X
9 Skills to assimilate and carry the rules of ethics and profession within the framework of social responsibility X
10 Skills to use Turkish efficiently in writing and speaking, and have the communication talent that is required by a law related career. X
11 Skills to approach critically and creativly on the legal and social problems in terms of rule of law and ideal of justice. X
12 Skills to understand and practice the national and international sides of law through caselaw and judical implementations. X
13 Skills to prepare/present a written or oral academic study within the framework of acedemic ethic and rules. X
14 Skills to use vocational information technologies efficiently in solving legal problems. X
15 Skills to reinforce knowledge of foreign languages and command of legal terminolgy. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 4 64
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 8 4 32
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 2 11 22
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 4 8 32
Total Workload 150