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Publication Open Access A social revolution: politics and the welfare state in Iran(The University of Chicago Press, 2019) Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982
Publication Metadata only Academic neo-colonialism in writing practices: geographic markers in three journals from Japan, Turkey and the US(Elsevier, 2019) Department of Sociology; N/A; Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Alkan, Aybike; Faculty Member; PHD Student; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427; N/AA global academic division of labor plagues contemporary academic production. The epistemological implications assign southern knowledge to the status of "data" for the use of northern "theory." The institutional consequences affect the training and promotion of scholars, and the distribution of academic resources. The persistence of global power relations in academic production is an indicator of the achievement of the West in establishing a Eurocentric relationship with the rest of the world. This paper looks at the manifestations of the contemporary academic division of labor in scholarly writing. We examine articles published in three international academic journals, based in Japan, Turkey, and the United States, and focus on the different ways in which authors use geographic markers, words that indicate that a title, an abstract, or a sentence is written in reference to a particular location a country, a city, or another geographic entity. Scholarship in the North relies on a writing style that reflects and reproduces its privileged position in the global academic division of labor. However, southern scholars tend to write in a style that makes heavy use of geographic markers, which reflects their underprivileged position in global academic world as "case" or "data" producers for northern theory.Publication Metadata only Advanced introduction to feminist economics(Wiley, 2023) N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Mert, Aslı Ermiş; Faculty Member; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 292273N/AItem Metadata only Arabs in Turkish political cartoons, 1876-1950: national self and non-national other(Cambridge University Press, 2024) 0000-0003-2992-4787; Celik, Cetin; Okyar, Ilkim Buke; Department of Sociology; Çelik, Çetin; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105104Publication Metadata only Biometrics and anthropometrics: the twins of Turkish modernity(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008) Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427In the first half of the twentieth century, eugenic debates and policies revolved around positive (encouraging the reproduction of 'superior' individuals) and negative (preventing the reproduction of 'inferior' individuals) applications for the purpose of improving hereditary characteristics and preventing social problems. However, their particular manifestations varied because eugenic agendas responded differently to putative social problems in different local contexts. Despite the wealth of scholarly studies on eugenics, particularly in Germany and the United States, eugenic debates in Turkey have so far not received any attention. The significance of eugenics in the Turkish context stems from its conflation with republican modernization efforts. While Turkish republican reformers were diligently searching for anthropometric proof of the whiteness, Europeanness and ancientness of Turks, they also supported biometric scholarship that proposed eugenic measures to protect and improve recently 'discovered' historical essences. At a time when western eugenicists were classifying non-western peoples as inferior, Turkish reformers creatively adopted the methods and vocabulary of race science to establish the Turks' innate ability to modernize. In order to demonstrate the wide appeal of eugenics in the Turkish context, Ergin presents findings from a content analysis of educational conferences organized by the government between 1938 and 1941, and argues that the future-oriented project of biometrics was as important as the past-oriented project of anthropometrics for the formulation of Turkishness in negotiation with race and modernity.Publication Metadata only Bringing registration into models of vote overreporting(Oxford Univ Press, 2007) Fullerton, Andrew S.; Borch, Casey; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Dixon, Jeffrey C.; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AVoting is a socially desirable act and a basic form of political participation in the United States. This social desirability sometimes leads respondents in surveys, such as the National Election Study (NES), to claim to have voted when they did not. The methodology of previous studies assumes that people only overreport voting and that the sample of potential overreporters (i.e., nonvalidated voters) is not systematically different from the sample of potential voters. In this research note, we explore several different ways of examining the determinants of overreporting at two different stages (registering and voting) and with a consideration for selection bias. Comparing the traditional probit model used in previous research with sequential and heckit probit models, we find that the determinants of overreporting registering and voting differ substantially. In addition, there is a significant selection effect at the registration stage of overreporting. We conclude with a discussion of contemporary implications for pre-election polling and the postelection analysis of survey data.Item Metadata only Cruel optimism of waiting: precarity experiences of young adults in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2023) 0000-0003-3510-0637; 0000-0002-5481-7687; N/A; 0000-0002-0886-7982; Cöbek, Gözde; Department of Sociology; N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Psychology; Gökşen, Fatoş; Küçük, Bermal; Bayram, Sidar; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; PhD Student; PhD Student; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 51292; N/A; 144272; 40374This paper examines young adults’ everyday experiences of precarity. Defining precarity as a socioeconomic and affective condition, it offers waiting as an analytical tool to explore the intersection of precarity and the family as a locus of social security and dependency. Based on the in-depth interviews with young adults (N = 52), it investigates the affective and temporal dimensions of precarity that play out in the waiting practices of young adults in Turkey. Focusing on these practices, we show how conditions of precarity foster an entrepreneurial mindset and never-ending self-enterprise while establishing forms of cruel attachments and dependencies. Following Berlant’s notion of cruel optimism, we demonstrate how young adults become paradoxically dependent on their familial bonds and temporary job market to become independent individuals. We conclude that the family as an agent of individualization and normalization of precarity (re-)emerges as the backbone of neoliberal restructuring. However, such familial bonds within the context of fragmented biographies reinforce cruel attachments in which sustaining the aspirations for independence makes precarious young adults more dependent on their families. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Publication Metadata only Cultural models of nature and society reconsidering environmental attitudes and concern(Sage Publications Inc, 2006) N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Ignatow, Gabriel; Faculty Member; 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 De-democratization under the New Turkey? challenges for women's organizations(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Eslen Ziya, Hande; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article is an endeavour to explore the changing networking strategies of women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey over the last decade. We delineate the shifts and changes during what we call thede-democratizationprocess where secular women's organizations face significant constraints and difficulties while networking and lobbying the government. Under these constrained conditions, yet, secular women's organizations make an exceptional effort to sustaining their lobbying activities and changing their networking strategies as well as partners. Relying on the related literature and 26 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with activist members of these organizations with about a 15-year time difference, this paper contends that Turkish women's organizations under theNew Turkeyare forced to find alternative allies and adjust their velvet triangles of support. Though their strategies were similar in some ways, the type of partnerships formed and who these partners are changed from the first and second decade of the 2000s. Thus, the paper shows how the secular women's organizations adapt to new resources as they mobilize and how they shift away from employing the single target approach to double while changing their initial networking and collaboration partners.Publication Metadata only Does it pay to participate? neighborhood-based organizations and the social development of urban adolescents(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2006) Quane, James M.; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AResearch on the developmental gains associated with participation in youth-service organizations has not kept pace with the proliferation in funding for these kinds of programs. Advocates describe them as important venues for youth to connect to mainstream institutions and to promote social and cognitive development, especially among underserved minority youth. Using data collected from 546 urban African-American mothers and their children in Chicago, we compare the availability of youth-serving organizations in poor and non-poor neighborhoods and consider whether participation has some positive implications for youth on a number of developmental assets. A theoretical model is proposed to consider the mechanisms by which youth may be affected. The findings suggest that when available, youth participation in locally based organizations is greater in more disadvantaged neighborhoods and that participation has important and positive implications for youth's self-concept as well as their academic commitment and educational expectations. While participation may also help to connect youth to prosocial neighborhood peers, school-based peers appear to be the most important friendship networks for encouraging a normative orientation toward academic attainment. The policy implications of these findings are discussed in terms of ways to help youth develop prosocial competencies in organized social settings during after-school hours.