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Publication Metadata only “Poor but achiever”: social capital, ethnicity, school achievement(Eğitim Araştırmaları Birliği, 2018) Department of Sociology; Çelik, Çetin; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105104This study uses Bourdieu's social capital concept to analyze the impacts of the parental networks on the educational success of their children by comparing student-mother and dropout-mother interviewee pairs living in disadvantaged areas of Istanbul. The findings obtained from the research reveal that; (1) although they live in the same disadvantaged neighbourhoods, students continuing to attend school differ from school dropouts in terms of socioeconomic and ethnic terms; (2) school dropouts are predominantly from Kurdish and Roma families living in marginal poverty; (3) the network structures of the parents of school drop-outs and nondropouts significantly differ in the nexus of socioeconomic resources and ethnicity; and (4) differences in network structures favouring parents of those continuing to attend school are mobilized to improve the school success. This research argues that this differentiation between the two groups regarding opportunities and constraints may be the result of the historical memory of the ethnic groups who occupy differing positioning the ethnoreligious hierarchy of Turkish society. / Bu çalışma Bourdieu’nün sosyal sermaye kavramını kullanarak İstanbul’un dezavantajlı bölgelerinde yaşayan, halihazırda okula devam eden ve kısa bir süre önce okulu terk etmiş öğrenci ebeveynlerinin ağ yapılarını çocuklarının eğitim başarısına etkileri bakımından ayrıntılı olarak analiz etmektedir. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular şunlardır: (1) Her ne kadar aynı dezavantajlı mahallelerde yaşıyor olsalar da okula devam eden öğrenciler sosyoekonomik ve etnik açıdan okul terklerden ayrışmaktadır; (2) okul terkler ağırlıklı olarak marjinal yoksulluk koşullarında yaşayan Kürt ve Roman ailelerden gelmektedir; (3) okula devam edenlerin ve okulu terklerin ebeveynlerinin ağ yapıları sosyoekonomik ve etnisite olarak önemli derecede farklılaşmaktadır; ve (4) okula devam edenlerin ebeveynleri lehine olan ağ yapılarındaki farklılıklar, çocukların okul başarısını artırmak için mobilize edilmektedir. Araştırma, fırsat ve kısıtlara ilişkin bu grupsal farklılaşmaların onların Türkiye toplumda uzun süredir işgal ettikleri etnik konumlarının yarattığı bir toplumsal hafızadan kaynaklanabileceğini ileri sürmektedir.Publication Metadata only “Tell Me Your Story, I’ll Tell You What Makes It Meaningful’’: characterization of meaningful social interactions between intercultural strangers and design considerations for promoting them(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Ramirez Galleguillos, María Laura; Eloiriachi, Aya; Serdar, Büşra; Coşkun, Aykut; PhD Student; Undergraduate Student; Master Student; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/A; N/A; 165306Positive meaningful interactions are encounters that promote positive attitudes and learning about others, which are needed to develop healthy social fabrics and cultural diversity. However, individuals tend to interact more with people like themselves often avoiding encounters with others that seem to be different, for example, with intercultural strangers. Though previous HCI work has been concerned with exploring meaningful experiences with products and technologies as a way of promoting product attachment, the field lacks studies exploring how design could facilitate intercultural MSI. Designing interventions to support intercultural MSI requires i) understanding what characteristics make these interactions meaningful and ii) how these characteristics can be addressed through design. In this study, we contribute to the literature by producing knowledge on these aspects. Based on an analysis of 56 real-life stories about intercultural MSI and an idea generation session with designers, we characterize intercultural MSI with four dimensions (outcomes, feelings, context, and elements) and we identify four design considerations to be taken into account when designing interventions to support intercultural MSI. Hence, our contribution is to formulate this knowledge while highlighting how the characteristics and perceptions of intercultural MSI can be applied to design new technologies that promote this kind of interaction. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Publication Metadata only A clash of civilizations? Examining liberal-democratic values in Turkey and the European Union(Wiley, 2008) Department of Sociology; Dixon, Jeffrey C.; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/ATurkey's proposed entry into the European Union (EU) has been undermined by Europeans' perceptions of Turkish-European cultural differences, particularly regarding the liberal-democratic values that the EU promotes (democracy, rule of law, and respect for and appreciation of minority/human rights). Yet, cross-national research on values has not focused on Turkey, the EU, and these liberal-democratic values, leaving assumptions of cultural differences and their explanations untested. Through analyses of World and European Values Survey data (1999-2002), this article asks whether people in Turkey have the same values regarding democracy, rule of law (versus religious and authoritarian rule), and minority/human rights as people in EU member and candidate states (as of 2000)? What factors explain these values? I find that people in Turkey support democracy to the same extent as people in EU member and candidate states, but people in Turkey are more supportive of religious and authoritarian rule and are less tolerant of minorities. Although the 'clash of civilizations' thesis expects liberal values to be ordered according to countries' religious traditions, with western Christian the most supportive and Islamic the least, only for tolerance of minorities values is this pattern found. Instead, economic development most consistently explains differences between Turkey and EU member and candidate states in support for these values. I conclude with calls for theoretical refinement, particularly of the clash of civilizations thesis, along with suggestions for future research to examine more Muslim and Orthodox countries; I discuss the debate over Turkey's EU entry.Publication Metadata only A cultural map of Turkey(Sage Publications Ltd, 2014) N/A; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Ergin, Murat; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 106427; 51292There is a growing body of empirical research on national patterns of cultural consumption and how they are related to social stratification. This paper helps to broaden the basis of comparison by focusing on cultural patterns in Turkey, a developing, non-Western, and predominantly Muslim context. Our analysis of cultural tastes and activities using data from a new nationally-representative survey shows three broad cultural clusters that clearly map onto differential positions in the social structure and are largely differentiated by degree and form of engagement with Turkey's emerging cultural diversity, particularly their orientation towards Western cultural forms. In general, local cultural modalities do not distinguish groups, attesting to the robustness of local culture. The results are discussed in light of previous work on cultural patterns in other national contexts.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 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; Ergin, Murat; Alkan, Aybike; Faculty Member; PHD Student; Department of Sociology; 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 Active pursuit of pregnancy: neoliberalism, postfeminism and the politics of reproduction in contemporary Japan(Soc Japanese Stud, 2023) Fassbender, Isabel; Department of Sociology; Demirci, Aiko Takeuchi; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesN/APublication Metadata only Advanced introduction to feminist economics(Wiley, 2023) N/A; Department of Sociology; Mert, Aslı Ermiş; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; 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/A