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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 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 practitioner’s guide to handling irregularities resulting from the 2014 revisions of the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2021) Poyraz, Meltem; Department of Economics; Demirci, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 272082We document the implications of the 2014 revisions to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey and offer guidance on how to handle the irregularities in population and unemployment statistics that resulted from two particular revisions. First, new population projections were adopted to assign survey weights. Second, a narrower definition of unemployment was adopted. We propose methods to adjust the survey weights for the pre-2014 period in order to discern changes in population statistics by age groups and regions without interruption over time and to calculate the unemployment rates according to both broader and narrower definitions since 2004. / Bu çalışmada TÜİK Hanehalkı İşgücü Anketi’ninde 2014 yılında yapılan düzenlemelerden kaynaklanan bazı sonuçları bulguluyor, nüfus ve işsizlik istatistiklerinde yapılan revizyonların özellikle ikisinden kaynaklanan sorunların nasıl ele alınması gerektiği hakkında yol gösteriyoruz. İlk revizyon, anket ağırlıklarının dayandırıldığı yeni nüfus projeksiyonlarının kabul edilmesidir. İkincisi ise, dar tanımlı bir işsizlik tanımına geçilmesidir. Bu çalışmada 2014 öncesindeki anket ağırlıklarını nüfus istatistiklerinde yaş bazında ve bölgesel olarak kopma olmayacak şekilde yeniden ayarlamak ve işsizlik oranlarını geniş ve dar tanımlı olarak 2004 yılından itibaren hesaplamak için yöntemler öneriyoruz.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 Metadata only A tale of ambiguity: citizenship, nationalism and democracy in Turkey(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) Keyman, Emin Fuat; Department of International Relations; Kancı, Tuba; Researcher; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AWe argue that historically the official Turkish nationalism and citizenship regime have been marked by an ambiguity that arises from the simultaneous existence of - and repeatedly occurring swings between - the ethno-centric and civic-political understandings of citizenship. We also suggest that the concept of territoriality, which took precedence over other factors in the creation of a new state in 1923, has functioned as a hegemonic reference in the official conceptualisations of the Turkish nation and self. The territorial focus, over time, has been conflated with the ethnic conceptualisations of the nation: both become the underlining elements of the discourse of official nationalism in Turkey, and are utilised in the successive reformulations of citizenship into the 2000s. Through the analysis of schoolbooks and curricula, we further argue that the major oscillations in nationalism nevertheless coincided with the ruptures that characterised the making of modern Turkey: modernisation, democratisation, globalisation and Europeanisation.Publication 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 Across the sea ... and beyond(Policy Press, 2018) Crawley, Heaven; Jones, Katharine; McMahon, Simon; Sigona, Nando; N/A; Duvell, Franck; Other; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/AN/APublication Metadata only An interpersonal perspective of perceived stress: examining the prosocial coping response patterns of stressed managers(Wiley, 2019) McCarthy, Julie M.; Bauer, Talya N.; Department of Business Administration; Erdoğan, Berrin; Researcher; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/AWe adopt an interpersonal perspective and examine the adaptive effects of managers' perceived stress on their behavior towards subordinates. Drawing from the transactional model of stress (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984), we advance a model that highlights the propensity for stressed managers to engage in prosocial coping behaviors towards their employees, which in turn are related to lower levels of turnover and higher levels of job performance. We tested our predictions in a sample of 281 employees and their 53 managers working in a clothing retailer in Turkey. Consistent with predictions, we found positive effects of managers' perceived stress on their prosocial coping behaviors and employee outcomes. Managers' perceived stress was positively related to sharing credit with employees for managers who held positive implicit prototypes about employees. Results also indicated that managers' perceived stress was positively related to sharing knowledge with their subordinates regardless of implicit follower prototypes. Both sharing credit and sharing knowledge, in turn, were related to turnover intentions and actual turnover, and sharing credit was related to job performance. This study extends past work by adopting an interpersonal perspective of stress and demonstrating that managerial stress can have positive effects on employee outcomes via prosocial coping behaviors.Publication Metadata only Applied acculturation research: working with, for and beyond communities(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2010) Ward, Colleen; Department of Psychology; Kağıtçıbaşı, Çiğdem; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThe paper examines the role of theory in acculturation research "with and for communities" and its application for enhancing social and psychological outcomes. It also discusses common themes in community-based acculturation research; the diverse investigative methods used; the nature of the partnerships forged between academics and grassroots organizations, including the practical problems involved in these collaborations; and the evolution of positive social change. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations for increasing the application potential of contemporary acculturation theory and research, whether based in the laboratory or the wider community. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.