Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
-- SKY665 3 + 0 3.0 10.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery I will teach with presentation and visual expression. I will give students some resources for pre-reading.
Course Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mehmet Nurullah KURUTKAN
Instructor(s)
Assistants
Goals Health Sociology course, students take care of the recognition of the individual's social environment, to detect the influence on an individual's social environment, cultural characteristics of the society in which they live and to recognize cultural exchange, enabling individuals within the the social environment as a whole provides learning to deal.
Course Content Essential concepts in the sociology of health, Medicalization, the role of disease, meta-theories, Biodegradation, sociology of the body, and death
Learning Outcomes - Understanding the basic concepts and theories of health sociology.
- Analyzing the relationship between social structure and health.
- Identifying social inequalities in access to healthcare and evaluating their consequences
- Examining health behaviors and illness experiences from a social perspective.
- Critically evaluating the social impacts of health policies.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Sociology of the definition, characteristics, relationships with other science of sociology
2. Week Sociology as a science, a subject of Sociology and Sociology of the branches of b-
3. Week What is society? What are the elements that make up the social structure? b-defining concepts such as role, status, group, institutionc-various types of society
4. Week In terms of health and diseases of the patient and the patient in terms of hastalıksosyolojik-patient status and role of the individual's social life changes that create
5. Week Health in Turkey, Turkey's social structure, health policy
6. Week Diseases unrelated to the social structure of society and culture, health-disease ilişkisib-social classes, groups, and health-disease ilişkisihastalık against religion, culture, customs, traditions, attitudes and belief systems in terms of
7. Week Course Review Family and family conceptPatient family, family medicine, family medicine, preventive medicine, public health concepts and sociological meanings The place of health education and system in social structure
8. Week Midterm Exam
9. Week Poverty, unemployment, divorce, social phenomena such as violence and sex of the health-disease on health
10. Week Administrative organizational structure of hospitals and health care organizations Doctor, patients, nurses and so on. health care providers, roles, status, their social relationships
11. Week Social aetiology Social ecology of disease Clinical sociology Social epidemiology
12. Week Health Care System of National and International Health Organizations
13. Week Concept definition of social status and social roles and functions of the Statute of the acquisition and the Disabled and Injured Individuals Health and Impressions
14. Week Environment, housing, occupation and so on. Socialization factors in health and disease and the role of social stratification systems Description factors affecting social mobility mobility çeşitlerisosyal
Recommended Sources
Cockerham, W. C., & Scambler, G. (2021). Medical sociology and sociological theory. The wiley blackwell companion to medical sociology, 22-44.
Bell, S. E. (2024). Bringing the Global into Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Narrative, and Global Health. Journal of health and social behavior, 00221465241249701.
Cirhinlioğlu, Zafer (2001). Sağlık Sosyolojisi. Ankara: Nobel Yayın.
Cockerham, W. C. (2020). Sociological theories of health and illness. Routledge.
Özçelik Adak, N. (2002). Sağlık Sosyolojisi Kadın ve Kentleşme, Birey Yayıncılık
Scambler, G. (2023). Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine. In Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine (pp. 47-61). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Duyan V. (2004). Cinsel Tutum Ölçeği. Ankara: HÜ Sosyal Hizmetler Yüksekokulu Yayın No: 14
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 Measurement Method
PY1 4 4 4 4 4 4 60
PY5 4 4 4 4 4 4 60
PY8 4 4 4 4 4 4 60
PY11 4 4 4 4 4 4 60
PY12 4 4 4 4 4 4 60
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm 1 1 60 60
Homework 1 1 40 40
Homework 2 1 43 43
Final 1 60 60
Practice 1 10 10
Classroom Activities 14 3 42
Total Workload 255
ECTS Credit of the Course 10.0