Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences

23-50

Authors: Esra KÖTEN

This study discusses the life in the neighbourhoods stuck between the gated communities recently built in the district of Sancaktepe, in terms of neighbourliness and social networks in the neighbourhood. In this context, in-depth interviews were conducted with the residents of the neighbourhoods about their lives, experiences, relations, urban structure, urban transformation and the rise of gated communities. All interviewees stated that they were generally content with where they lived, and, for most of them, the key factor for this satisfaction was the neighbourly relations. Contrary to the prevalent opinion that urbanization weakens the neighbourly relations, the neighbourhood residents emphasized the intensiveness of the neighbourly relations and its determining role in their lives, and they distinctly distinguished themselves from those living in the gated communities by virtue of these relations.

81-100

Authors: Aslı Önay AKÇAY, Filiz ERATAŞ

Bir değişim oranı olan Satın Alma Gücü Paritesi (SGP) ülkeler arasındaki fiyat farklılıklarını ortadan kaldırarak, söz konusu ülkelerin para birimlerinin satın alma gücünü eşitlemekte ve uluslararası gelişmişlik karşılaştırmalarında önemli bir ölçüt olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. SGP teorisi uzun dönemde reel döviz kurunun sabit olduğu varsayımına dayanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, 1995-2012 döneminde G7 olarak tanımlanan ülkelerde SGP teorisinin geçerliliğinin incelenmesidir. Bu bağlamda, panel veri analizi kapsamında reel döviz kuru serisinin durağanlığı hem birinci nesil hem de ikinci nesil birim kök testleri ile sınanmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucunda; birinci nesil panel birim kök testi ile reel döviz kurunda birim kökün olmadığı yönünde kanıtlar elde edilirken, ikinci nesil birim kök testleri ile serinin birim kök içerdiği diğer bir ifade ile G7 ülkelerinde SGP teorisinin geçerli olmadığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

125-141

Authors: Barış ERDOĞAN

In establishing their new nation-state by waging war against the occupant Western countries during the aftermath of the World War I, the secular nationalist cadres who were educated in the Western-modern schools of the semi-colonial Ottoman State implemented a modernization project that acknowledged the superiority of Western values in order to “civilize” the society that they were attempting to build. These secular nationalist cadres gained legitimacy via running a national Independence battle against the colonialist imperialist powers, and they pursued a internal colonialism and local orientalism approach excluding the various social groups that existed in the periphery of their own nation-state from the political, cultural, social, and economic fields. However, different social groups resisted against this civilization project in various forms from the very beginning, and brought to power the “Islamist” Welfare Party (RP) in 1996 and then Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in 2002. As a response to this development, RP was discredited in the political and social arena and finally overthrown by a ‘post-modern coup d’état”, and AK Party faced a closure trail and the military e-memorandum. This article shall employ a post-colonial perspective to carry out a sociological discussion of the processes that fostered the mental codes of these “secular nationalist cadres” that were determined to modernize their nation-state at any cost.

161-176

Authors: İsmail Cem AY, Erdem TURGAN

Since its foundation in XX. century, EU has remarkably developed within time and has reached today's status. It has always been one of the basic aims of EU to develop several mechanisms in order to help financially to its members and to the countries which are not members too for their easy integration to the Union. The main target of EU financial aids is to generally ensure the sustainable development of economic activities of member countries in conformity with the accepted economic policies of EU and to increase the harmony between EU and non-member countries. Therefore this study is intended to explain the impact of European Union’s fiscal aids on member or non-member countries.