International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

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Authors: Ahmet Başçı, Adnan Veysel Ertemel

Corporate Reputation concept has been studied in academic literature since 1950’s and received a lot of interest from various disciplines. Both practitioners and academicians agree that corporate reputa-tion plays a critical role on how the corporate is perceived and whether or not the corporate is per-forming successfully (Beown, 1998, Fombrun, 1996). Having a good reputation makes the stakehold-ers of the firm more eager to contribute, attracts good talent, helps retain existing customers (Mark-ham, 1972). There is a positive correlation between good reputation and high revenue generation (Robert and Dowling 1997; Vergin and Qoronfleh 1998). Generally accepted definition of corporate reputation is totality of aggregated observations and perceptions regarding the firm (Bromley 1993; Davies and Miles 1998). There are three distinctive schools of thought regarding corporate reputation. These are; social expectations, corporate personality and trust. Social expectations take into account the anticipated corporate behaviors by the society. Corporate personality approach takes into account various personality traits being attributed to a firm. The last approach investigates the conditions where people trust to a firm. This paper uses the corporate personality approach to measure corporate personality concept. The aim of the research is to investigate the corporate personality perception of university students studying in business administration departments who plan to work in one of these firms after graduation. An exploratory research is made to achieve this purpose. The research is lim-ited with the city of Istanbul and with the university students studying business administration in state and private universities. Due to the homogeneity among the research population, convenient sampling is made. The results are compared, analyzed and further research suggestions are made.

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Authors: Tohit Güneş, Fatma Taştan Akdağ, Oktay Güneş

It is purposed in this study that determining readiness level and misconceptions (if the students have or not) in the learning process of buoyant force of liquids which requires basic Physics concepts for 10th grade students. For this purpose, open-ended questions which contain basic concepts have been asked to 162 10th grade students who attend high school in the city center of Samsun. Obtained datas are categorized and evaluated considering comprenehsion level scale (5 point likert scale) created by Abraham and et. al. (1994). As a result of evaluations it has been determined that readiness levels of students are not adequate, existing lack of knowledge about some basic concepts and significantly misconceptions. It has been concluded that it is difficult to learn a new subject without resolving the lack of knowledge.

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Authors: Çiğdem Bacak, Oğuzhan Dalkıran

The main purpose of this study is to determine the differences between the entrepreneurship levels of the Sport Management and Recreation the fourth year students who are enrolled in the recreation programs of universities. The sample of this investigation consists 268 students studying in the recreation departments of Erciyes, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Muğla, Akdeniz and Pamukkale Universities during the spring semester of 2014-2015 academic year. To determine the difference between entrepreneurship levels of sample group is used "Entrepreneurship Scale for the University Students' developed by Yilmaz and Sünbül '(2009) and to determine the demographic features of students "is used " Personal Information Form” created by the researcher. In the analysis of personal information form data is used frequency and percentage distribution. Non-parametric tests were applied because of the data were not realize normal distribution. To analysis of the differences between the total score level was used Mann-Whitney U test, to analysis of the differences between levels of substances in the frequency distribution Chi-square (Chi-square) test was used. According to the findings in the study there is no significant difference between the level of entrepreneurship of the Department of Recreation and Sport Management students. In addition, there is no significant difference according to gender and age entrepreneurship level. There is a significant difference between entrepreneurship levels according to practices that Recreation and Sport Management Department students have made and the courses that Recreation and Sport Management Department students have taken.

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Authors: Ebru Nurcan, Neylan Kaya

The automotive sector, seen as the driving force of the economy in industrialized countries, constitutes an important position because of the interaction with other sectors. This situation raises forefront of the efficiency and productivity of automotive companies. In this study, activities in the automotive sector in the world, and in 2014 according to the report published by Brand Finance, 17 firms’ efficiencies with the highest brand value using a non-parametric mathematical programming model named Data Envelopment Analysis is evaluated. One of the most important characteristic features of DEA method is that it evaluates efficiency level of the efficient firms as 1. The other important feature is that it takes fully effective firms as a reference to ineffective firms (the ones that have an efficiency level lower than 1) and gives amendatory advices to help them become effective. Making use of the financial report in the analysis period between 2011-2013, as input variables total assets, total equity and the numbers of employees were used; as output variables, gross profit and net income were used. According to the result of the study, while the average technical efficiencies of the firms which are the subjects of the analysis in the researched terms show a positive acceleration later on the decrease and it is determined that the efficiencies of the industry do not have stability.

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Authors: Demet Karabulut

Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence offers prevalent examples of melancholy which is based on the pratoganist Kemal’s state of mind. Even before losing the object of desire, Kemal mourns about the future separation which signals the beginning of melancholy that increases after the end of the affair with Füsun and turns into a mood of life that lasts as long as he lives. Attached to the lost object (Füsun) and the gesture of its loss, Kemal yearns to be a part of Füsun’s life. Therein resides the cause of his attachment to the objects that belong to Füsun which he gathers in Merhamet Apartment that already functions as a museum. This paper analyses object attachment and the idea of museum that devoloped from this which direct us to the concept of the “aura” and transmissibility of the past to the future.

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Authors: Barış Mutlu

We have started to forget some ancient values such as virtues including courage, self-control, modesty/temperance, benevolence, honesty, and truthfulness, justice in our current lives which have very strong self-interested, and egoistic relationships. Especially because of having different good life conceptions in our daily lives, we try to solve those problems by focusing on common political rules which are generally very abstract. But we have never thought that those rules will not be strong enough to fight against some political and ethical problems because of our selfish and non-altruistic emotions. So virtue ethics which start to become a tradition in the discussions and approaches of ethical philosophy, has been brought important and strong arguments which focus on virtues, social practices, and dependency and those arguments will be different from Kantian and Utilitarian ethics’ arguments which are based on abstract moral rules. Even they have very different readings, philosophers like A. MacIntyre, B.Williams, and M. Nussbaum address to our present problems by going back to past, tradition and by this way the virtue ethics tradition has been revived. Now there have been many studies on virtue ethics for our crucial problems such as identity problems, environmental problems, and our interest in other beings, old age, and disease. In this paper, I want to discuss some impacts and values of virtue ethics on education and what kind of tradition it’s trying to build within education by making our duty to fight against some contemporary problems cherishing some non-altruistic emotions such as egoism.

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Authors: Marko Turk, Jasminka Ledić

Academic profession is faced with changes and challenges in social environment that occur in the global area of higher education. These challenges call for (re)defining the existing and introducing new competencies for performing everyday academic duties. The research findings presented in this paper, attempt to answer the research question What are the competencies academics need at the start of their senior academic career? The research was conducted on a sample of 1130 academics of all academic positions from seven public universities in Croatia. The online survey examined the attitudes about how important each competency is to successfully perform the role of a senior academic as well as their assessment of the mastery of each competency. The evaluation scale contained 41 items - academic profession competencies. This paper will present the results of the rankings on the scale evaluating the importance of academic profession competencies and corresponding discussion about new research questions that has been opened. Some of these questions are related to discussions on approaches to acquiring new and/or redefining existing competencies of the academic profession and systems of support for acquiring and redefining academic profession’ competencies.

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Authors: Zeynep Öner

The purpose of the study is to determine preservice teachers’ value dimensions about exhausted, exhausting species and Turkey’s endemic species. For this purpose, a semi-structered survey has been conducted to preservice teachers and asked what kind of values they have about species determined. The answers have categorized and 13 value dimensions have been determined. These are; sympathy-affection (emotional), ecological, nourishment, economic, dangerous-frightening, ornament-aesthetic, touristic, industry, health-medicine, artistic, educational, advertisement, symbol-toy. As a result of analysis of the datas it has seen that ecological value (20.00% answer rate) is the most important and then, emotional (14.00% answer rate), economic (10.03% answer rate) values are important for preservice teachers. Besides, the values have been determined which have been attributed to the each of exhausted, exhausting species and Turkey’s endemic species by preservice teachers conducting surveys which has been prepared using 13 value dimensions. Based on the results, it can be considered that preservice teachers are proficient in perceptions about biodiversity. Teachers’ perceptions about importance and conservation of biodiversity must be on an expected level because of teachers’ creating awereness, perception and attitude on students. Taking into account of these factors, for preservice teachers it is important that having enough perception about biodiversity.

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Authors: Selcen Vodinalı

Advertisements aim to leave impact on target group via an idea, product or service. As known, advertisements have a decisive impact on the behaivours of one of their target groups, childrens.Visual and auditory power of television and children, whose parents stay indifferent on this power, have been exposed to too many advertisement message every day,are both uncontrovertible truhts. The topic of this work is the impact of the advertisement; such as the advertisement's impact on the children, the consumerism's imposes on the interaction between advertisements and children, how much children affected from the lifestyles presented on advertisements, affects on their nutrition and behaviour and the formation of their value judgements.The target of this work is to handle the TV commercials targeting children from different aspects and to understand the childrens' impact rates from the advertisements' message, which is constructed by the source.In this context, the advertisement called "Yoook mu?" from Maret brand chosen from commercials aired in 2015 via intentional sampling method; and semiotic analysis used for the analysis of the commercial movie. A coding scale about commercial movie has been made on the scale for creating meaningful findings. For reaching the meaning, Peirce's approach, which supposes that the correlation between the indicative and indicated can happen on three degrees of the indicator, has been used as a basis.

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Authors: Işıl Fulya Orkunoğlu Şahin

The phenomenon of globalization, exacerbated following World War II and began to appear intensely in the 1980s, with the impact of GATT Treaty in force in the 1940s-1950s which was supported political, social and economic integrations between the countries that are close to each other. So that regionalization came into question. For this reason, it can be easily said that was generated by governance, new developmentalism, free zones, development zones and industrial zones, technology development regions which are the tools of today's regional development and as a result of globalization and regionalization processes evolve with feeding each other at certain times. Development agencies were established through international organizations with the funds and loans of many international organizations such as, UNDP, World Bank and EU. They have been the driving forces of regional development zones in which they were established. Accordingly in this study examined the contributions of development agencies to regional development in Ankara case.

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Authors: Yasemin Arıman, Mehmet Tuncer

Today states have been installed many tasks accordance with constitutions. States to fulfill these tasks make public expenditures and also needs income to finance these expenditures. Today, about 70% of government revenues consist of taxes. While elected government make decision about how much tax will be released to the taxpayers, voters will decide who the political power is. Several factors stand out that affect the decision of voters in other words their political preferences. In this study; impact of family and surroundings, over-all economic outlook and tax on political preferences of voters were investigated. This study was limited to Trabzon; was utilized face to face interview technique, contact was made with 384 participants identified by random sampling method and finally data were tested by SPSS 16. As a result of the study it was concluded that factors have the most significant impact on the political preferences of the voters is over-all economic outlook.

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Authors: Mehmet Can Aktan

Education is a lifelong phenomenon. Education’s step which is formal and includes childhood is carried out at schools. Problems that affect school age children’ academic achievement and psychosocial wellbeing negatively are called student problems. In this study; introverted, extrovert and social problems are mentioned. Coping with student problems, social work and its practise field school social work’s role are mentioned. Accordingly, in line of problem-need, the importance and necessity of school social work interventions in Turkey are expressed. School social work is based on the approach “person-in-environment” which addresses student with its social environment, however it isn’t been practised yet in Turkey. School social work has almost one hundred years of its history in the USA and England. It aims students’ academic success and psychosocial development, focuses students’ wellbeing on problem-needs basis. At schools from many different region of our country, some events such as violence, suicide are being reflected in the media nowadays and they are showing the need of school social work clearly. Finally, it is believed that this study will contribute to the literature.

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Authors: Zübeyir Bütüner

Yet the task before the Second World War from the Rudolf Nadolny ambassador to Turkey, has fulfilled this role for nearly five years. Assigned to each claim to have a history of how successful the fact that although there are other important reasons. The beginning of the best of these is perhaps the most important is to have someone with experience. One of the other reasons the region is also an important level of positive relations with Turkey and Germany, perhaps the only man to hold. However, during the First World War in the Middle East and Turkey, Rudolf Nadolny is one of the most important factors to be served. The purpose of this study, rather than a biographical work reveals, Rudolf Nadolny's officials during his years in Turkey are the activities that have been carried out. Therefore, first Rudolf Nadolny's life has been examined and then passed to the embassy year. Embassy of the year in the Turkish - English - French alliance done to prevent the work undertaken, Turkish German Non-Aggression Pact signing, R. Nadolny against the attempted assassination attempt in Turkey with Germany political and diplomatic relations cut and Rudolf Nadolny Turkey 'the club has been investigated.

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Authors: Ömer Çınar, Salih Yeşil

Gaining a competitive advantage, attaining a learner identity, and keeping pace around of an organization depend on the support of the organization for the employees as well as loyalty, performance, commitment, and dedication of the employee. In this context, employees must feel the support of organization in order to feel them valued, to have ownage of the business, to be permanent, and to improve their performance. The aim of this study is that to examine the effects of variables of organizational commitment and organizational support which are made by organizational behavior on the employee performance. Showing a high performance and desiring to keep working on the organization of the employees in the banking sector, which is found the high-level competition, will increase the success of themselves as well as the organization. As a result of national and international literature for variables and structural equation model in the study; the relationship of organizational commitment which is a variable from individual behavior and organizational support which is a variable from organizational behavior on employee's performance are proposed for the structural equation model. A selected universe for the field research is that about 575 employees in where 39 branch of 18 Banks in Kahramanmaraş. The studied sample is composed of 306 surveys which are suitable for analysis. In the survey, the measures which are their validity and reliability confirmed by international studies have been used belong to the variables which are "organizational commitment", "organizational support" and "employee performance" that are situated in the research model. According to the obtained data, research hypotheses are tested by using of SPSS and AMOS. As a research result, the hypothesis which states “Organizational commitment of Bank's employees positively affects the employee performance.” The organizational commitment of employees makes a positive contribution the organizational citizenship behaviors; so that the opinion of their increased performance are supported by this study. Hypothesis of “Organizational support provided by the Bank positively affects their employee performance”, which are founded between organizational support and employee performance, is also accepted. In this context, noticing of employee ideas and supporting them everything about business or non-business increase their performance. Consequently, these points are recommended below; considering employee’s ideas seriously, giving priority to health and happiness, taking into account the objectives and values of them, forgiving a mistake which are made unintentionally, and feeling that the organization would assist them in any issues of employee.

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Authors: Merve Menteşe

Classical Turkish literature consists of the works written in Ottoman age in terms of ongoing period. It also includes the aspects of social life, science, religion etc. as a literature of a Muslim culture. In the light of this reality, there are wide variety of sources which classical Turkish literature takes advantage of. Religious elements are involved in the important part of these sources. Especially after Turk's acceptance of Islam it attracts attention the frequent use of religious elements. So, the poets of ottoman age used quite often religious elements in their poems as well. Among the poets who used religious and sufistic factors typically, there have been ottoman sultanas. Ottoman padishahs had been educated with special care when they were so young. They have always supported the poets since the establishment of the state and enabled many French and Arabic works to enrich our literature. Almost all Ottoman sultanas have been poets who knows Islamic culture and literature starting with II. Murad. They all used a penname in their poems like other poets. II. Murad was the first padishah who had poems. Otherwise, Fatih sultan Mehmet was the first poet who had Dewan. He conquered Istanbul when he was 21. He was a great reader and poet as well as a war hero and statesman. There is no doubt that ottoman culture, science he learned and the belief he held have had a great influence on his works. In our work, it will be examined the religious elements including Dewan of Fatih sultan Mehmet namely, Avni, in terms of what meanings he gave these elements as well as where and how due to the fact that he was the first one having had dewan. It is certain that a work give some clues about the personality, view of world and beliefs of the person who wrote the work. By being studied the Dewan of a Padishah who marked an era, it can be understood better the influence of religious elements on Ottoman sultanas.