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Publication Metadata only Cultural models of nature and society reconsidering environmental attitudes and concern(Sage Publications Inc, 2006) N/A; Department of Sociology; Ignatow, Gabriel; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/ASocial scientists have long debated the factors influencing public concern for the natural environment. This study attempts to contribute to this debate by arguing that environmental concern is shaped by both "spiritual" and "ecological" cultural models of nature-society relations and that by distinguishing between these two, we can better recognize the social sources of variation in concern for the environment. An analysis of questionnaire data from 21 nations from the 1993 International Social Survey Program using ordinary least squares regression models shows that spiritual and ecological environmental worldviews have different social bases. Education generally positively predicts the latter but not the former. Patterns of national differences are noteworthy as well. Thus, conceptualizing public concern for the environment in terms of distinct cultural models may be more revealing than focusing on environmental concern as such.Publication Metadata only On environmental concern, willingness to pay, and postmaterialist values - evidence from İstanbul(Sage Publications Inc, 2002) Adaman, F; Zenginobuz, EU; Department of Sociology; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51292The authors explore the impact of geographical proximity of environmental problems on environmental concern and willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental improvement, with emphasis on the relevance of Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis on this inquiry. A questionnaire was administered to 1,565 respondents in İstanbul. The Contingent Valuation Method was used to measure WTP. Sea pollution in İstanbul (local issue), soil erosion in Turkey (national issue), and ozone depletion (global issue) were issues chosen for valuation. The sample was separated into three subsamples, with each being presented with only one issue. Individuals distinguish between local and global environmental concern. People with materialist values rather than postmaterialist values exhibit more concern for local environmental problems. However, postmaterialist values determine WTP for improvement in both the local and the global environmental problems. Distinguishing among concern for environmental issues, which are differentiated on the basis of geographical proximity, has relevance for the ongoing postmaterialist values debate.Publication Metadata only The processes of integration and education: the case of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children in Turkey(Taylor and Francis, 2018) Department of Sociology; Şimşek, Doğuş; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238422The Syrian migration is the second-largest mass movement of people in the world’s history that causes almost half of the Syrian population to be displaced since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in March 2011; half of the population affected by the Syrian conflict are children. Syrian children still face many barriers to attending schools in Turkey. Among 2.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, 835.000 of them are of school age, and 463.000 attend public schools and Syrian Temporary Education Centres (TECs). This chapter focuses on the state of Syrian refugee children in accessing education in Turkey, one that - I argue - both determines and is determined by the level of integration of the Syrian refugee community. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the border cities including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Kilis and Mardin, this chapter aims to contribute to the literature on integration of refugees by exploring the effects of Turkey’s integration policy on the lives of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children. It further discusses what needs to be done and how the integration of refugees and their children should be achieved in Turkey.Publication Metadata only The processes of integration and education the case of Syrian refugees and syrian refugee children in turkey(Routledge, 2018) Department of Sociology; Şimşek, Doğuş; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238422The Syrian migration is the second-largest mass movement of people in the world’s history that causes almost half of the Syrian population to be displaced since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in March 2011; half of the population affected by the Syrian conflict are children. Syrian children still face many barriers to attending schools in Turkey. Among 2.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, 835.000 of them are of school age, and 463.000 attend public schools and Syrian Temporary Education Centres (TECs). This chapter focuses on the state of Syrian refugee children in accessing education in Turkey, one that - I argue - both determines and is determined by the level of integration of the Syrian refugee community. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul and the border cities including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Hatay, Kilis and Mardin, this chapter aims to contribute to the literature on integration of refugees by exploring the effects of Turkey’s integration policy on the lives of Syrian refugees and Syrian refugee children. It further discusses what needs to be done and how the integration of refugees and their children should be achieved in Turkey.Publication Metadata only Taking it to the grave: gender, cultural capital, and ethnicity in turkish death announcements(Sage, 2009) Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427Popularly considered a great equalizer, death and the rituals around it nevertheless accentuate social distinctions. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2554) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hürriyet) from 1970 to 2006. Out of the liminal position of Turkish death announcements between obituaries and death notices emerges a large decentralized collection of private decisions responding to death, reflecting attitudes toward gender, ethnic/religious minority status and cultural capital, and echoing the aggregate efforts of privileged groups to maintain a particular self-image. Class closures lead to openings for traditionally under-represented minorities, such as Jewish Turkish citizens and citizens of Greek or Armenian origin. Results reveal that signs of status and power in announcements are largely monopolized by men of Turkish-Muslim origins. Although the changes in the genre-characteristics of death announcements are slow, they correspond to major turning points in Turkish social history.Publication Metadata only It takes a village to support the vocabulary development of children with multiple risk factors(American Psychological Association (APA), 2014) Aydemir, Nuran; Çankaya, Dilek; Department of Psychology; Department of Psychology; Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; Department of Psychology; Baydar, Nazlı; Selçuk, Bilge; Küntay, Aylin C.; Gökşen, Fatoş; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 50789; 52913; 178879; 51292; 40374Data from a nationally representative sample from Turkey (N = 1,017) were used to investigate the environmental factors that support the receptive vocabulary of 3-year-old children who differ in their developmental risk due to family low economic status and elevated maternal depressive symptoms. Children's vocabulary knowledge was strongly associated with language stimulation and learning materials in all families regardless of risk status. Maternal warmth and responsiveness supported vocabulary competence in families of low economic status only when maternal depressive symptoms were low. In families with the highest levels of risk, that is, with depression and economic distress jointly present, support by the extended family and neighbors for caring for the child protected children's vocabulary development against these adverse conditions. The empirical evidence on the positive contribution of extrafamilial support to young children's receptive vocabulary under adverse conditions allows an expansion of our current theorizing about influences on language development.Publication Metadata only Eternal life as privilege: cultural boundaries and social stratification in death announcements (1950-2010)(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesBehind a veneer of "disinterested" concern, death rituals reflect and reproduce patterns of social and cultural stratification. This paper examines 296,483 death announcements published in a Turkish daily newspaper in a 60-year timespan. The content analysis of the texts shows that, first, the discourses around death reveal the complex overlaps between cultural boundaries and social stratification. Second, the patterns of social and cultural stratification in death announcements interweave with broad historical trends, making it possible to "read" societies through the lens of death. These historical trends map onto foundational issues, such as the gender gap, neoliberal transformations, modernization, and religiosity.Publication Metadata only Social capital and cultural distance as predictors of early school dropout: implications for community action for Turkish internal migrants(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2010) Department of Sociology; Department of Psychology; Gökşen, Fatoş; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51292; 40374This paper examines the influence of rural to urban migration on early school dropout from compulsory education through effects of social capital drawn from community, in a sample of Turkish youth. The loss of community-based sources of social capital may be the underlying reason for significantly lower levels of school attainment of immigrant youth in comparison to native youth in culturally diverse societies. In the present study, with a sample of 764 adolescents, we show that rural to urban migration at school age (5-15 years) increases a child's odds of dropping out from compulsory education about 103% compared to when the child is not migrated, above and beyond other significant structural risk factors like child labor, having an illiterate mother and no stable house income. The effect of migration on dropping out is significant for adolescents who migrated to the metropolitan Istanbul, but not to other less developed cities, which are similar to the immigrants' home cities in terms of socio-economic and cultural milieu; 94.5% of migrants to Istanbul but 74.5% of migrants to other cities had dropped out. Positive student-teacher relationship as a form of school social capital increased the odds of staying in school by 65% for migrants to Istanbul. We suggest that social capital factors are critical in the educational attainment and acculturation of migrant children. Interventions should target immigrant children, their families and the communities they live in. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Publication Metadata only Gender role attitudes of female students in single-sex and coeducational high schools in İstanbul(Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2013) Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; Başkurt, Ayşe Burçin; Rankin, Bruce; Teaching Faculty; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/AThis study examines the relationship between school type and gender role attitudes among 295 female high school seniors attending four high schools, two single-sex and two coeducational. The schools are located in Istanbul, Turkey, where a recent proposal to establish a system of girls' schools has sparked a lively public debate about the advantages of single-sex schooling as a means of addressing the problem of lower female educational attainment. The main research question is whether the gender composition of schools has an impact on gender role attitudes, which we operationalize as attitudes toward gender roles in three domains: Family life, work life, and social life. Statistical analysis based on multiple regression show that, net of family background characteristics, students attending single-sex schools have more egalitarian attitudes toward family life roles than coeducational students, but school type does not matter for work and social life role attitudes. The socioeconomic composition of schools is also important, with students attending schools in the high socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhood having more egalitarian views on gender roles in family and social life.Publication Metadata only Religiosity and the construction of death in Turkish death announcements, 1970-2009(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427Death and rituals performed after death reflect and reproduce social distinctions despite death's popular reputation as a great leveler. This study examines expressions of religiosity and constructions of death in Turkish death announcements, paying particular attention to gendered, ethnic, and temporal variations as well as markers of status and cultural distinction. Death announcements in Turkey occupy a liminal position between obituaries and death notices: Unlike obituaries, no editorial decisions are involved in their publications. However, unlike death notices, Turkish announcements are venues for expressions of culturally scripted individual decisions. These large and decentralized collections of private decisions display rigid genre characteristics involving formulaic phrases but also change over time to reflect social, cultural, and economic changes in Turkish society. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2,812) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hurriyet) from 1970 to 2009. Results show that death announcements in Turkey increasingly rely on an emotional tone of loss and bereavement that replace constructions of death in a more detached and distant language and that religious and secular preferences in the language of announcements are an important domain in which cultural battles are fought and the participation patterns of new middle classes are negotiated.