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ISL 607 - Role of Technology in Marketing Science

Graduate Education Institute · Business Administration · Doctorate

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Özgür KÖKALAN

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enrich the knowledge of doctoral level students in marketing and to investigate marketing from a postmodern point of view. Postmodern terms of postmodern thought in the field of marketing by considering the feasibility of traditional marketing approaches to revealing the weaknesses, postmodern consumption in marketing, postmodern culture, symbolic consumption, such as postmodern characteristics of marketing 

Course Content

In the context of this course, after the comparison of modernist and postmodernist perspectives, the reflections of postmodernist approach on marketing, consumption, social life, culture and marketing research are examined.

Required Resources

Yavuz ODABAŞI, Postmodern Pazarlama, MediaCat, 2003. 2) Edin Güçlü SÖZER, Postmodern Pazarlama, 2007.

Recommended Resources

 Stephen BROWN, Postmodern Marketing: Abutting beginners, 2) Mike FEATERSTONE, Postmodernizm ve Tüketim Kültürü, Ayrıntı Yayınları. 3) Bernard COVA, Community and Consumption: Towards a definition of the linking value of products and services European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 31,

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. To evaluate and criticize the postmodern perspective on marketing
  2. to make evaluations and suggestions about the future of postmodern marketing practices
  3. To evaluate marketing researches in the context of postmodern approach and reflect their reflections in terms of today's marketing researches
  4. To examine the reflections of postmodern lifestyle and make suggestions for marketing
  5. To examines the relationship between postmodernism and consumption and examines the role of marketing in postmodern consumer society
  6. To evaluate and distinguish postmodernism from modernism

Core Area Distribution

(22) Humanities%20 (34) Business and Administration%80

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionGroup StudySelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)16348
Out of Class Study Period16464
Midterm12020
Quiz000
Assignment12525
Practice000
Final13030

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Introduction to modern and post modern conceptsIntroduction
2Examining the features that differentiate postmodern conditions from modernChapter 2
3Differences in Postmodernism and its implications in terms of glareChapter 2
4Consumption and postmodern consumption cultureChapter 3
5Fragmentation without market segmentationChapter 5
6Production and consumption displacementChapter 6
7Consumption and symbols in postmodern conditionsChapter 8
8MidtermMidterm
9Applying postmodern features to marketing and marketing managementChapter 9
10Characteristics of postmodern societyChapter 12
11Symbolic consumptionChapter 13
12Postmodern marketing paradigmChapter 13
13Postmodern research methodsChapter 14
14Review of postmodern marketing practicesChapter 14
15General rehearsalRehearsal
16Final ExamFinal Exam