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Publication Open Access A multivariate investigation of overall happiness, job satisfaction and income satisfaction of women and men in Turkey(Sosyoekonomi Society / Sosyoekonomi Derneği, 2020) Department of Sociology; Mert, Aslı Ermiş; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 292273This paper examines the factors affecting working women's and men's overall happiness, job satisfaction and income satisfaction levels and the association between these three measures of happiness. Women and men who are satisfied with their workplace relations relative to those who are not are more likely to report that they are satisfied or very satisfied with their life, job and income. Women's job and income satisfaction and men's all three means of happiness are more likely to be high for those who received a pay rise last year. The strongest correlation is observed between job satisfaction and income satisfaction for both genders, which is slightly stronger for women that challenges the arguments on women's financial motivation to be not as strong as men at work. Spillover hypothesis is confirmed in all pairwise combination of the three happiness measures according to findings. / Bu çalışma, çalışan kadınların ve erkeklerin yaşam, iş ve gelir tatmin düzeylerini etkileyen faktörleri Türkiye bağlamında irdelemekte ve bu öğeler arasındaki korelasyonu incelemektedir. Araştırmanın bulguları, işyeri ilişkilerinden memnun olan kadınların ve erkeklerin yaşam, iş ve gelir tatmin düzeylerinin yüksek olma eğiliminin daha fazla olduğunu göstermiştir. Kadınların iş ve gelir, erkeklerin ise her üç mutluluk öğesi önceki sene alınan gelir artışından pozitif olarak etkilenmektedir. En yüksek korelasyon seviyesi kadınlar için biraz daha güçlü olmak üzere iş ve gelir tatmini arasında görülmüş, bu bulgu kadınların iş hayatında ekonomik kazanımlara erkekler kadar önem vermedikleri argümanının aksini desteklemiştir. Yayılma hipotezi üç mutluluk öğesinin tüm ikili kombinasyonlarında gözlemlenmiştir.Publication Open Access A social revolution: politics and the welfare state in Iran(The University of Chicago Press, 2019) Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982Publication Open Access A task set proposal for automatic protest information collection across multiple countries(Springer, 2019) Department of Sociology; Department of Computer Engineering; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Yörük, Erdem; Yoltar, Çağrı; Yüret, Deniz; Gürel, Burak; Duruşan, Fırat; Mutlu, Osman; Teaching Faculty; Faculty Member; Researcher; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Researcher; Department of Sociology; Department of Computer Engineering; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; N/A; 28982; N/A; 179996; 219277; N/A; N/AWe propose a coherent set of tasks for protest information collection in the context of generalizable natural language processing. The tasks are news article classification, event sentence detection, and event extraction. Having tools for collecting event information from data produced in multiple countries enables comparative sociology and politics studies. We have annotated news articles in English from a source and a target country in order to be able to measure the performance of the tools developed using data from one country on data from a different country. Our preliminary experiments have shown that the performance of the tools developed using English texts from India drops to a level that are not usable when they are applied on English texts from China. We think our setting addresses the challenge of building generalizable NLP tools that perform well independent of the source of the text and will accelerate progress in line of developing generalizable NLP systems.Publication Open Access Beneath walls and naked souls: factors influencing intercultural meaningful social interactions in public places of Istanbul(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022) N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Ramirez Galleguillos, María Laura; Eloiriachi, Aya; Coşkun, Aykut; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; KU Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries (KUAR) / KU Arçelik Yaratıcı Endüstriler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (KUAR); Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/A; 165306Individuals often avoid intercultural interactions due to biases and stereotyped perceptions about others. However, these encounters are needed to promote social inclusion and diversity. Previous PD studies have supported migrants' social inclusion through developing their social capital and empowerment. Very few studies explored the facilitation of intercultural interactions within everyday contexts, like public places; further, most studies provide western perspectives. Addressing this gap, we conducted a focus group study with migrants and locals living in Istanbul, a city connecting eastern and western cultures, to explore how they perceive intercultural meaningful social interactions (IMSI). We asked participants to share poems about meaningful interactions, opening a dialogue about their intercultural life experiences. This technique allowed us to identify abstract qualities of IMSI and factors that influence them. We contribute to PD work on social inclusion by presenting in-between perspectives of IMSI and discussing opportunities for facilitating IMSI in a super-diverse city.Publication Open Access Between the state and the world market: small-scale hazelnut production in the Black Sea region(İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2020) Erköse, H. Yener; Şahin, Osman; Yükseker, Deniz; Department of Sociology; Sert, Hüseyin Deniz; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesTurkey is the world's largest hazelnut producer and exporter, yet hazelnut farmers have been growing hazelnuts in increasingly difficult conditions even for the years when production levels and hazelnut prices are high. In this paper, we take up the contradictions in hazelnut cultivation in Turkey and seek to show that, despite the commonsense opinion that the problem stems from small-scale cultivation, the more important problem is the unequal power relations that exist in the hazelnut market. We make the following arguments in the paper based on some of the findings from the field study we carried out in the Western and Eastern Black Sea regions in 2017. Issues exist regarding productivity and profitability in hazelnut cultivation characterized by small holdings. Hazelnut farmers are often unable to meet the expenditures and investments required for raising productivity. These problems arise more from the farmers' demographic profiles and debt levels and the unequal power relations in the hazelnut market with respect to small-scale production. Therefore, resolving the problems in hazelnut cultivation might require making changes that favor small farmers' power relations in the hazelnut market rather than enlarging holdings. / Türkiye dünyanın en büyük fındık üreticisi ve ihracatçısı konumunda. Ancak fındık üreticileri, bazı yıllar bol mahsul veya mahsullerine iyi fiyat alsalar bile, giderek daha zorlu koşullarda üretim yapıyorlar. Bu yazıda, Türkiye’de fındık üretiminin barındırdığı çelişkileri ele alacağız. Sorunların kaynağında fındık işletmelerinin küçük olmasının yattığı yönündeki genel kabulün aksine, sorunun aslen fındık piyasasındaki eşitsiz güç ilişkilerinden kaynaklandığını göstermeye çalışacağız. 2017’de Doğu ve Batı Karadeniz Bölgeleri’nde yaptığımız alan araştırmasının verilerinin bir bölümünün bulgularına dayanan makalede şu savları ortaya koyuyoruz. Türkiye’de küçük işletmelerde yapılan fındık tarımının verimlilik ve kârlılık konusunda sorunları vardır. Fındık üreticilerinin çoğu verim artırımı için gerekli harcamaları ve yatırımı yapamamaktadırlar. Bu sorunlar, üretim birimlerinin küçük olmasından çok, fındık üreticilerinin demografik profili, borçlanma ve fındık piyasasındaki eşitsiz yapıdan kaynaklanmaktadır. Dolayısıyla, fındık üretimindeki sorunların çözülmesi için üretim ölçeğini büyütmekten çok, eşitsiz güç ilişkilerinin hâkim olduğu küresel piyasada üretici lehine değişiklikler yapmak daha uygun olabilir.Publication Open Access Bülent Batuman, new Islamist architecture and negotiating nation and Islam through built environment in Turkey. New York: Routledge, 2017.(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020) Cöbek, Gözde; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesPublication Open Access Challenges and applications of automated extraction of socio-political events from text (CASE 2021): workshop and shared task report(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021) Tanev, Hristo; Zavarella, Vanni; Piskorski, Jakub; Yeniterzi, Reyyan; Villavicencio, Aline; Department of Sociology; Department of Computer Engineering; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Yörük, Erdem; Mutlu, Osman; Yüret, Deniz; Teaching Faculty; Faculty Member; Researcher; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Department of Computer Engineering; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; College of Engineering; N/A; 28982; N/A; 179996This workshop is the fourth issue of a series of workshops on automatic extraction of sociopolitical events from news, organized by the Emerging Market Welfare Project, with the support of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and with contributions from many other prominent scholars in this field. The purpose of this series of workshops is to foster research and development of reliable, valid, robust, and practical solutions for automatically detecting descriptions of sociopolitical events, such as protests, riots, wars and armed conflicts, in text streams. This year workshop contributors make use of the state-of-the-art NLP technologies, such as Deep Learning, Word Embeddings and Transformers and cover a wide range of topics from text classification to news bias detection. Around 40 teams have registered and 15 teams contributed to three tasks that are i) multilingual protest news detection, ii) fine-grained classification of socio-political events, and iii) discovering Black Lives Matter protest events. The workshop also highlights two keynote and four invited talks about various aspects of creating event data sets and multi- and cross-lingual machine learning in few- and zero-shot settings.Publication Open Access Chinese investment in Turkey: the Belt and Road Initiative, rising expectations and ground realities(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022) Kozluca, Mina; Department of Sociology; Gürel, Burak; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219277Turkey's inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative in 2015 has raised the expectations of Turkish businesses and government concerning growth-generating investment from China. Existing studies on Chinese investments in Turkey lack sufficient data on the volume of investment, types of firms, and sectoral composition. Based on a novel dataset of Chinese investments in Turkey, this article contributes to filling this gap. We show that although Chinese investment in Turkey has increased considerably in recent years, it remains quite modest compared with investments from the West. Moreover, despite the expanding activities of Chinese technology companies, more than half of Chinese investment in Turkey consists of low value-added manufacturing, extraction of raw materials, and marketing of Chinese products. Overall, the developmental potential of Chinese investment in Turkey has not been radically different from other countries' investments.Publication Open Access Çin’in yükselişi ve yeni kapitalizm(Sosyoekonomi Society, 2018) Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982This article presents a theoretical discussion about the new forms of capitalism in the context of the economic and political rise of China. The article raises a discussion on the changes that the rise of China has instigated in both China and the world capitalism. This is considered in the context of mode of production, international trade, state and capital, by analysing China and capitalism from the perspective of long historical periods. In doing this, the article benefits from the work of and polemics between Giovanni Arrighi, Joel Andreas ve Richard Walker, who provided very important contemporary debates on this issue in the field of historical sociology.Publication Open Access Connecting rural change and local crafts: rebranding sock knitting in Yenikaraagaç(Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture / Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi, 2019) Aktaş Bilge Merve; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Sociology; Alaca, Ilgım Veryeri; Gürel, Burak; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 50569; 219277Rural development literature has demonstrated that in modem times, farming alone is usually unable to provide sufficient returns to develop a rural economy and keep the processes of outmigration and aging of the rural population in check. The development of non-farm activities such as small-scale industries, handicrafts, and rural tourism has been recognized as an indispensable method of providing relatively sufficient income to villagers, preventing rural exodus, and maintaining a lively village culture which combines contemporary practices with time-honored traditions. Based on a fieldwork in the village of Yenikaraagac (located near the city of Bursa in western Turkey) and the outreach postcard project connecting the village to urban areas, we argue that design-based approaches can expand the audience of local craft practices and contribute to rural development. This argument is supported by our examination of the historical trajectory and current state of sock knitting in Yenikaraagag. The postcard project, which connects sock knitting in the village to other areas, is an example of how designerly approaches present the potential of local crafts to maintain dignified livelihoods in rural Turkey.