Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Language Type Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
-- SKY665 Turkish Compulsory 3 + 0 3.0 10.0
Prerequisite Courses
Course Level Graduate
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)
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
# Öğrenme Kazanımı
1 Understanding the basic concepts and theories of health sociology.
2 Analyzing the relationship between social structure and health.
3 Identifying social inequalities in access to healthcare and evaluating their consequences
4 Examining health behaviors and illness experiences from a social perspective.
5 Critically evaluating the social impacts of health policies.
Lesson Plan (Weekly Topics)
Week Topics/Applications Method
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
*Midterm and final exam dates are not specified in the 14-week course operation plan. Midterm and final exam dates are held on the dates specified in the academic calendar with the decision of the University Senate.
The Matrix for Course & Program Learning Outcomes
No Program Requirements Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Ability to identify the health needs of the community and the demand for health services
5 Ability to evaluate and improve the quality of healthcare services
8 Ability to use information management systems in the effective, efficient planning, evaluation, and improvement of healthcare services
11 Ability to work effectively, efficiently, and ethically with healthcare professionals and other stakeholders within and outside the institution
12 Ability to monitor and implement developments in health policies
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5
PY1 4 4 4 4 4
PY5 4 4 4 4 4
PY8 4 4 4 4 4
PY11 4 4 4 4 4
PY12 4 4 4 4 4
Recommended Sources
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Diğer Kaynaklar
  • 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
ECTS credits and course workload
ECTS credits and course workload Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Sınavlar
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
*AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 ECTS Credit of the Course 10.0