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    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; 28982
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    Do south african managers cope differently from American managers? a cross-cultural investigation
    (Elsevier, 2001) Bhagat, RS; Ford, DL; O'Driscoll, MP; Frey, L; Mahanyele, M; N/A; Babakuş, Emin; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    Coping with organizational stress can reduce the experience of psychological strain on the job. While the literature on coping with stress is growing in its importance, there are hardly any empirical studies on the significance of coping styles or their relative efficacies in dissimilar cultural contexts. The present study was undertaken to examine: (1) the relative efficacies of two distinct types of coping styles (Lazarus st Folkman. (1984). Stress appraisal and coping. New York: Springer), and (2) the efficacy of decision latitude in the US and South African contexts, The results reveal important cultural influences on coping styles and decision latitude in ameliorating the experience of psychological strain, Implications of this study for future research on coping are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Economic crisis and marital problems in Turkey: testing the family stress model
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) Aytaç, Işık A.; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    This paper applied the family stress model to the case of Turkey in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis. Using structural equation modeling and a nationally representative urban sample of 711 married women and 490 married men, we tested whether economic hardship and the associated family economic strain on families resulted in greater marital problems. Our results showed a modified family stress model applies to Turkey. In contrast to most previous research, economic strain had a direct effect on marital problems, and the indirect effect of strain, via emotional distress, was only significant for women. The results were interpreted in light of social and cultural factors that condition how economic distress affects marital relations.
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    Elitist by default? interaction dynamics and the inclusiveness of secularization in Turkish literary milieus
    (Univ Chicago Press, 2018) Department of Sociology; Büyükokutan, Barış; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 126139
    Nonwestern secularization has the reputation of an elitist project, but poetry milieus in 20th-century Turkey experienced secularization in a relatively inclusive manner. Using comparative-historical, network, and statistical methods, this article compares poetry milieus to novelistic milieus, whose secularization closely resembles the Turkish/Islamic stereotype. This exercise identifies a previously unnoticed role that interaction dynamics play in shaping secularization patterns. As such, western-nonwestern difference as regards secularization is neither fiction nor fate: it involves structures of interaction that may appear anywhere. These findings suggest a more Simmelian direction for future scholarship, broadly affirming the ascendant culturalist orientation in the sociology of religion while revising some of its particular claims. They also call for a civic republican turn: while tempering past scholarship’s vilification of the state, they suggest that a vibrant civil society is the more vital component of relatively inclusive secularization.
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    Fear of small numbers: an essay on the geography anger
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2008) N/A; N/A; Kaya, Laura Pearl; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that 'listens' and 'creates a safe space'
    (Sage, 2022) Sot, İrem; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    This research explores how and why TikTok users from Turkey choose to make TikTok content. Drawing from the concept of polymedia and debates on digital connection and disconnection, which center on individuals' choices whether to connect or detach from digital media based on the affordances they offer, the article highlights an affordance shaping users' choices of media that have not received sufficient emphasis in these discussions: namely, the ability of a platform to foster intimacy. Based on qualitative research combining structured and semistructured interviews with 14 individuals, the article discusses how and why TikTok has come to be perceived either as an object of attachment with which individuals have intimate relations or as a site for individuals to fashion a shared sense of intimate, safe space with other users. I also illustrate that the ways individuals talk about intimacy intersect with how they talk about the algorithmic systems. Combining approaches from critical algorithm studies, media choices, and research on mediated intimacies, the article demonstrates that (a) individuals choose TikTok to foster intimacies and (b) users connect seemingly contradictory concepts of intimacy and algorithms in their choices of TikTok.
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    From Titanic to Game of Thrones: promoting belfast as a global media capital
    (Sage, 2019) Department of Media and Visual Arts; Rappas, İpek Azime Çelik; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 183702
    Using information gathered through analysis of screen industry-related promotion material and fieldwork conducted in Belfast in June 2017, this article traces the ways in which screen economy connected to James Cameron's Titanic (1997) and HBO's Game of Thrones and the celebratory discourse around these works brand Belfast as a dynamic global media capital. This study inquires into the ways in which association with screen industries contributes to the spatial value of a region, especially a post-industrial city that actively seeks to alter its past global image and association with a violent civil conflict. It also aims to contribute to the debate about the discourse on labor in creative cities by showing that while manufacturing labor is waning, its discourse of social welfare, hard labor, and craftsmanship transfers itself to creative industries that then justify themselves through the claim to inherit traditional industries' economic strength, job opportunities, and work ethics.
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    Gender inequality in schooling: the case of Turkey
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2006) Aytac, IA; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    Drawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of Turkish youths, it assesses the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and postprimary school attainment. The results show that while locality, family resources, and family structure and culture influence the education of both genders, girls' chances of postprimary schooling are greater if they live in metropolitan areas and in less patriarchal families. Birth-order comparisons indicate that older daughters are less likely to complete postprimary schooling than are their younger sisters. Girls' primary school attainment is facilitated by having other family members who help with child care. The findings are discussed in light of trends in Turkish society and their implications for future research.
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    Having a German passport will not make me German': reactive ethnicity and oppositional identity among disadvantaged male Turkish second-generation youth in Germany
    (Routledge Journals, 2015) Department of Sociology; Çelik, Çetin; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 105104
    The ethnic identity of second-generation immigrant youth has important implications for their association with, and integration in, receiving countries. This paper deals with the ethnic identity formation of second-generation Turkish immigrant youth in Germany, with particular attention paid to the notion of reactive ethnicity. While much of the literature discusses the ethnic retention of this specific group as unwillingness to integrate, this paper frames their ethnic identity formation as reactive ethnicity, which emerges in reaction to social exclusion. Utilizing a case study of Turkish students of disadvantaged schools, the article illustrates that reactive ethnicity is strongly linked to perceived discrimination and that it acquires characteristics of resistance when the dominant group denigrates and invalidates the immigrants' culture.
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    Interests, passions and politics: business associations and the sovereignty dispute in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017) N/A; Department of Sociology; Kılıç, Azer; Other; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    This paper examines business associations in a context where the state is being contested from below, focusing on Diyarbakir, a major Kurdish city in Turkey. Against the backdrop of armed conflict, reform processes triggered by the country's EU candidacy and socio-economic change, Diyarbakir has become a contested zone over which the Turkish government and the Kurdish movement have been competing for control. Local business associations have also been implicated in such contestation. Considering the situation of dual power and moral economy at the local level, the paper examines how these associations deal with an adverse situation that is characterized by political instability and uncertainty. The analysis shows that business leaders have been able to make the 'best' of the situation.