{"id":11297,"date":"2025-06-09T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11297"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:11:40","slug":"sociological-investigation-of-the-university","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/summer-2022\/sociological-investigation-of-the-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Investigation of the University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Sociological Investigation of the University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#asli-vatansever-anchor\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#asli-vatansever-anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asl\u0131 Vatansever<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ismet-akca-anchor\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ismet-akca-anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0130smet Ak\u00e7a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of this course is to (re)think the meaning and function of the \u201cmodern university\u201d by following its transformation from its (re)configuration in the era of Enlightenment to today, the \u201cInformation Age\u201d, \u201cpost-modern\u201d, \u201cpost-truth\u201d society, characterized by fast flows of knowledge and financial capital. After a brief introduction to the conceptualization of the university by the Enlightenment philosophers such as Kant and idealists such as Fichte, we will follow how the perception and function of the university changed with the consolidation of the nation-states, enhancement of social-democracy and welfare states, and then with their demise in the era of globalization and ascendency of finance. What kind of discussions have taken place within the universities between public intellectuals and academics in each era? How did the public perception of the university change? What re(formations) and re(formulations) of policies took place at the political and policy-making level? How did the citizens of the nation-state come to see the university as the regime characterized by social democratic values left its place to neoliberal values? Through a close look at several countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Turkey, the readings and discussions in this course will try to answer these and similar questions. The US, UK and Germany are cases that stand for the conceptualization and materialization of the \u201cmodern university\u201d, therefore investigation of the transformation in these countries is crucial. The Turkish case represents the transformation in question in a Southern country in which not only the economic developments but also the hegemonic political and economic paradigms emulate those of the Northern ones. The final session(s) of the course will be devoted to thinking and discussing what the transformations in question mean about the value of knowledge and freedom of thought.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sociological-investigation-of-the-university-syllabus-S22.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"sociological-investigation-of-the-university-syllabus-S22 g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d04c1b66-085d-4602-a9ef-3e31da3b186f\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sociological-investigation-of-the-university-syllabus-S22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sociological-investigation-of-the-university-syllabus-S22<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">01.02.22 &#8211; 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