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Artificial intelligence, which is one of the most discussed technological innovations in today's world, increases its effectiveness in every field of life day by day. Studies and statistics reveal that the impact of artificial intelligence on social life is constantly increasing and it affects social life in different ways. Therefore, artificial intelligence is as much a concern of software and computer sciences as of social sciences. Sociological studies on artificial intelligence are increasing both in terms of quality and quantity. There are two main approaches in studies on artificial intelligence in sociology. The studies in the first group focus mainly on artificial intelligence in the context of its social effects, as a tool for capital and political power to maintain social control, as a phenomenon that reproduces social inequalities, and as a cultural phenomenon that carries the cultural biases of those who produce it. The studies in the second group are those that position technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular as a "social actor" in the production of sociality. The aim of this study is to critically examine the ways in which artificial intelligence is handled in the sociological literature and to discuss the sociology of artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Republic period in the cultural context is an important stage in terms of change and transformation of Turkish society. While the imperial institutions were gradually changing from the seventeenth century onwards, it was replaced by a new political regime with the loss of power as a result of wars and economic crises. The Republic is a period in which ambitious breakthroughs are made in every field. In the origin of many innovations brought by the Republic, it is possible to see the movements of innovation in the last period of the Ottoman Empire. On the other hand, the transformation of the Republican regime in the field of culture and art necessitates a separate consideration from the previous period. Culture and art have been the most important way for the regime to express itself. In this regard, while dealing with the dominant concept of art, it has become important to discuss the approaches, critiques and contributions of the prominent names of the Turkish sociology community in the first half of the twentieth century. Considering some of these names as an ideologist, supporter or critic of the new political regime, examining the ideas that are compiled in the context of the sociology of art enables us to learn more about that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a social being, man must live in the community. Therefore students' learning the principles and concepts of sociology seems to be a necessity that will help them to recognize the characteristics and conditions of the society and culture they live in, also they will be aware of the social problems. Since Layered curriculum method is student centered; activity based; aims to develop research and inquiry skills of the students and different areas of intelligence; regards individual differences. As a result use of layered curriculum method will make sociology courses more effective and efficient. Layered curriculum depends on the assumption that each individual/ learner has different areas of interest as well as different learning paths. Regarding the assumption above, layered curriculum is a way of arranging teaching by letting the learners undertaking individual responsibilities to obtain information; using the obtained information to solve problems; analyzing events in the light of data, putting forward new ideas and having the understanding of critical thinking. Layered curriculum depends on the understanding that each individual's learning style, intelligence and reasoning differs from the other. It allows the student actively take place in learning process and activities which serves to a wide range of different learning styles and intelligence. Students are expected to reach specific goals through different activities. In this article Grade 11 sociology class was chosen, as an example of cascading events through the teaching method applied, to show how this method can be used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to quest for an opportunity of post-positivist sociology by focusing on the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu`s intellectual production and addressing the point on which historical basis Bourdieu`s sociological perspective is established. In this context, in the first part of the article, it is going to be pointed out by which movements (successively structuralism, interactionism and pragmatism) criticizing does he arrive at the scientific understanding that tries to overcome the tension between objectivism which looks down on the social and subjectivism which accepts individuals` quotidian life and ideas without questioning. This, in other words, means a construction of a new scientific language becoming hybridized between the structuralist terminology and the phenomenological attitude and damaging the main backbone of mainstream sociology. Bourdieu`s understanding of sociology, whose works are also being read as an eternal argument against positivism, empiricism, structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology, economism, Marxism, methodological individualism and grand narratives, provides a new point of view by criticising subjective and objective forms of knowledge and the essentialist perspective of reality. The concept of habitus being the crucial notion of this Bourdieu based innovative thought is also going to be dealt with in terms of an opportunity of post-positivist sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]