International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

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Authors: Meral Özhan

This paper presents the adjustment process of the WIOD (World Input-Output Database) tables of Turkey to national accounts data coming from the TurkStat (Turkish Statistical Institute). The database covers 27 EU countries and 13 other major countries in the world for the period 1995 to 2011. The main aim of the paper is to construct a series of balanced input-output tables (IOTs) for Turkey’s Interindustry Analysis Model (Turina). TURINA is an Interdyme type (Interindustry dynamic macroeconomic) model developed by INFORUM (Interindustry Forecasting at University of Maryland). The Inforum model requires one or more IO tables with three blocks: i. Total intermediate (domestic plus import) interindustry flow matrix, FM ii. Final demand block, FD, iii. And Value added block, VA. A time series of 35-sector annual IO tables for the Turkish economy has been constructed by the WIOD. The format of national input-output tables in WIOD is different from the normal format of national input-output tables which can be directly used in building an INFORUM model. The WIOD structure consists of six blocks: i. Intermediate flow matrix which only shows domestically produced inputs. ii. Final demand goods produced by domestic industries. iii. An import matrix which shows import components of intermediate inputs into domestic industries. iv. Imports components of final demand categories. v. Value added block at the bottom rows of the whole table. vi. Some elements of value added rows inside the final demand block. In the adjustment process three major steps are taken. The first step requires the addition of import rows to domestic rows in order to obtain the total intermediate and final demand figures. The second step requires the adjustment of the sum of final demand categories to national account totals at aggregate level. The third step requires the adjustment of value added totals to national account income figures provided by national statistical office. After all these steps any imbalances which are almost always the case an RAS procedure is applied to balance the whole system at sectoral level. At the present stage I have checked the WIOD table for 2011. Starting from the final demand side, I observed that there are no deviations for Government expenditures and Gross domestic fixed investment between the WIOD and the TurkStat figures. For other variables of final demand block (Consumption, Changes in stocks, Exports, Imports,) some slight differences were observed. Therefore initially, the GDP figure in the TurkStat sources exceeded the WIOD figure by 3.2 percent. Finally, with a series of balancing adjustments both at macro and sectoral level the WIOD table for 2011 is made consistent with the TurkStat data.

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Authors: Burcu Gündoğdu

In his work entitled “Mercury fur”, Philip Ridley imagines a post–apocalyptic capitalist society plagued by the butterflies, multi-colored drugs, which induce memory loss and social collapse, particularly in younger generation. In addition to the drug dealing, violence and child abuse become another source of income in this capitalist world that suffers from loss of communication and empathy. This is one of the reasons that lead characters to develop melancholic subjectivity and strengthen their tendency to resort violence. Characters suffer from permanent melancholia state due to ongoing modern civil wars that turn the world into a “Waste Land” as in T.S Eliot’s poem. Just as Samuel Beckett’s characters, Vladimir and Estragon in “Waiting for Godot”, the brothers of “Mercury Fur”, Eliot and Darren think hope and belief are replaced with disbelief and despair. In this text, it is not an existential crisis that is focused on though, it is the post-war crisis causing moral bankruptcy and lack of commitment to life because threat is everywhere and capitalism demerits humane values. The Gang culture resurfaces again and dominates the young brains and incites them to do violent actions. This text has been examined from the perspective of Freudian theory of “Melancholia and Mourning”, which sheds light on the reasons why these characters suffer from melancholia, depressive psychoses and perversions. Though at first glance, it seems difficult to overcome shell-shock experience, moral degeneration and prevent familial institution’s disintegration, Ridley considers the best cure to work through the problems is story-telling. To exchange personal stories plays a big role in stimulating bitter-sweet memories, keeping family ties close and regaining sense of self even in the time of war.

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Authors: Tohit Güneş, Canan Varol, Oktay Güneş

This study is aimed to determine students’ opinions about the effect of workbooks on the use of workbooks as homework and learning environment that have been used since 2005-2006 academic year and have been removed as gradually since 2013. For this purpose, in 2015-2016 academic year, the qualitative data was gathered by asking 15 open-ended structured and semi-structured questions to 108 seventh grade students who are schooler in city center and towns of Samsun. Results showed that students’ evaluations about student’s workbooks changed according to students’ success and a positive correlation was appointed between academic success and the utility of using books. Although successful students’ evaluations about using books and it’s utility were positive, less successful students’ evaluations were negative because workbooks require obligatory extra studying. We are of the opinion that success show parallelism with the use of books and the use of workbooks is much better when you consider students’ general opinions.

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Authors: Muathe Abdu

Nowadays, there is a growth of creating new accounts in social network sites (SNSs) specially by young people among whom are university students. SNSs (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Myspace and so many others) are useful communication tools in which people exchange ideas in their areas of interest. This incredible growth of using these applications makes it significant to investigate specific personal or professional purposes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of awareness among university students for finding jobs through using SNSs. The targeted group was undergraduate and graduate Türkiye Scholarship holders at Ege University, Izmir- Turkey for the spring semester 2014-2015. Two variables were explored: their current ways and awareness of using SNSs for finding jobs. The method applied in this study was quantitative in nature; a web questionnaire was shared through Facebook and randomly 61 participants responded to it who are about 14% of the total number. The data was analyzed by using the SPSS program 19. However, many users have already joined groups and pages in SNSs concerning jobs. The results indicate that there is a lack of awareness among them towards finding jobs and only 14.8% of them who have already been hired as a result of using SNSs. Further; they use SNSs for personal matters rather than professional ones.

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Authors: Rüveyda Kızıloğlu, Halil Kızılaslan

This paper focused on the socio-demographic factors influencing fish consumption in Erzurum, Turkey. The data were collected from 271 households by using face to face survey technique. The Logit model has been used to analyze the socio-economic factors affecting fish consumption of households. The prices of meat, chicken and fish, and income have been used as the variables affecting the probability of fish consumption. According to the results from logit regression analysis, red meat price, chicken meat price and income are significant and positively correlated with fish consumption. An increase in red meat price resulted in a 1.82 % increase in the likelihood to purchase fish. As in the price of meat, the estimated 0.02 change in probability for income indicated that a unit rise in chicken meat price caused a 2.25 % increase in the likelihood to purchase fish. In the light of the findings, it can be recommended that fish marketers and processors should consider income, the prices of red meat, chicken meat and fish among socioeconomic factors in their formulation of marketing strategies aimed at promoting fish consumption in Turkey. Furthermore, stocking and marketing conditions should be rearranged, and household and marketing standards should be formed.

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Authors: Zeynep Benan Dondurucu, Ayşe Pınar Ulucay

The development of new information technologies increase the power of social media as a political communication tool day by day. The main features which seperates social media from tradional media are concurency, interaction, user oriented content, the active recevier model. So, the social media has been an active vehicle which is easy to reach and cheap for reaching the target market for political acitivities. These specific features which social media have are literally important not only for political organizations but also economical establishments. Social media is a vital vehicle for political campaign strategies and public relations for all kind of organizations. In this research, USA President: Barack Obama and President of Republic of Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s social media usage practices in Facebook as a part of their polutical communication strategies are examined. According to the results of this study, it is aimed to be analysed the reflection of two different political culture and country interaction in social media. The purpose is this study is making a comparision of Facebook usage practices between USA president Barack Obama and Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The messages which is taken at this context are analysed according to political communication methods and practices.

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Authors: Esra Küçüksakarya

The purpose of this paper was to make a linguistic analysis of the specifically chosen Turkish novels’ blurbs. This study focused on the blurbs of 10 novels in different genres involving Psychology, Sufism, Tragedy, Biography, History, Literary, Thriller & Adventure, Self-Improvement, Romance and Horror. In terms of communicative purpose and linguistic analysis of rhetorical and lexico-grammatical choices, the methodologies of Selinker (1972,), Lackstrom (1973), Trimble (1974), Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993) and consequently their connection with the advertising discourse were applied to the corpus consisting of 10 Turkish novels’ blurbs. In the first stage, for delimiting the scope of the study, domain-specific corpus was determined. Next, the study was devoted to exploring the rhetorical structure of blurbs from a genre analysis perspective (Swales, 1990; Bathia, 1993) to identify their communicative purpose. Furthermore, linguistics analysis in regard to lexico-grammatical features and the relation between the form of linguistic resources and the functional aspects they textualize in discourse were focused. The results showed that book blurbs formed a specific genre characterized by a certain communicative purpose. In the lights of the findings, it was found that the use of specific linguistic and discursive conventions demonstrated some basic characteristics of advertising discourse.

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Authors: Aykut Yılmaz, Burçak Başak

The goal of this study is to measure if there is a relation between personality types, which are determined according to the Big Five scale, and consumer sentiment toward marketing and the severity and direction of this relation. After the literature review it was seen that there is not any studies about the measurement of the impact of the personality types against consumer sentiment toward marketing. Therefore the research is important in terms of contributing to the literature. The research implemented with survey method to the applicants who were selected by using quota sampling and convenience sampling. Number of the valid surveys are 417. According to the results of the analysis it was seen that the personality types, which are coherent to the perception of the promotion activities, extraversive and open to experience, are all related positively. The compatible personality type has a positive impact on the perception of place and product activities. The conscientuous personality type has also a positive impact on the perception of pricing activities. However, neurotic personality type does not have any impact on the consumer sentiment towards marketing.

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Authors: Halil İbrahim Şengün

The main goal of political parties and candidates, who often encounter the voters during the election period and after, is achieve the highest votes with the lowest price. During this period that the choice of voter is getting indecisive and the importance of ideologies is losing with the effect of globalization, it is seen that there are also many similarities in rhetoric and propaganda of political parties. This competition fact caused by these similarities, made it necessary to be stand out with a great different efforts regarding the reaching the highest potential votes of the leaders of political parties or candidates and thereby winning the election. In this study, the efforts and workings of political parties performed during the election period or before were examined as applied in regards to political marketing so that political parties achieve higher ratings to influence the choices of the voters towards their own ideas. In this context, the voting habits of the students educated in Dicle University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration and the role of political marketing tools in formation of political preferences were analyzed statistically. For this research, 240 students were selected from nearly 1590 students educated in Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration at Academic year 2013-2014 spring semesters. Convenience sampling method is used in the study. Required data has been obtained from these students with face-to-face survey method and attempted to determine the student’s opinions. The data obtained as a result of the research was analyzed with statistical analysis such as frequency, correlation analysis and factor analysis.

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Authors: Erkin Nevzat Güdelci

Companies should choose proper competitive tools to be successful in their environment. Being successful is closely associated with being competitive. Therefore, at the beginning of this work, a general look to Competitiveness is taken. In addition to this, the reasons for companies to compete are explained. Furthermore, the external and internal factors related to competitiveness are listed. In further sections, the example of Gübretaş is assessed with internal and external competitive factors and its competitive tools are explained. Advices for Gübretaş to be more competitive are also given. In this paper, the reasons for companies to compete are stated and external and internal factors affecting the competition level of companies are explained. Combination of these external and internal factors affects level of the competition, In other words, it affects the success of the companies. Therefore, the companies should deeply analyze these factors, so that they can choose the best combination of tools for competition. Being more competitive let the companies gain more market share in their field. Being big gives advantages for companies. The reason for this is that big companies can have more sources than other ordinary companies. These companies use tools like price, promotion, etc to compete with ordinary companies. Therefore, if today’s companies want to obtain success in the competition, they should increase their sources as much as possible to defend themselves against attacks by their competitors. To do this, they should determine the best practices for competition.

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Authors: Serkan Kadıoğlu, Hatice Kadıoğlu Ateş, Güler Kanbay Ak

The aim of this study is to investigate the discipline approaches of school managers. The study employed qualitative research methods and techniques. The sample of the study consists of the school managers employed in the secondary schools in the district of Başakşehir, Istanbul, in the 2014-2015 educational year. The study unveiled the opinions of 56 school managers on the definition and aims of the concept of discipline, and, at the same time, revealed their discipline approaches that they have adopted. Data were collected from school managers through a semi-structured interview. Interviews were videotaped. The study took approximately two months. According to the findings, school managers defined discipline as a way of yielding desired behaviors, of complying with rules and regulations, rewarding and motivating the employees, and maintaining order in the institution. However, it was also found that some school managers defined discipline as a punishment for undesired behaviors. It was found that school managers think that discipline aims to secure productive functioning of the institutions, to get things done neatly, to help the personnel to be successful, to prevent all possible problems, to make the personnel abide by the rules and regulations and to organize the things to be done. The study also found that among the attitudes that the school managers take on when they implement discipline are encouragement and rewarding instead of prohibition, and identifying the reasons for, and preventing, indiscipline. Based on these findings, it was concluded that the majority of school administrators have preventive approaches towards indiscipline. Some school managers have such attitudes as forcing the employees to act properly, developing an attitude towards the undisciplined personnel, and threatening which shows that they have corrective approach towards indiscipline. School managers that punish the undisciplined personnel in line with the requirements of laws and regulations by giving justifications have the punitive-prohibitive discipline approach which is based on punishment and prohibitions. A small amount of school managers that participated in the study was found to have a revenge-based discipline approach towards the undisciplined employees. It was concluded that managers in this group develop such approaches as waiting for the undisciplined behaviors that require heavy punishment; not helping the personnel in their difficult times, and depriving them of their rights. Based on the findings, it can be said that school managers are knowledgeable with the definition and aims of discipline; that they usually have the preventive approaches towards indiscipline; and that there are very few school managers that have revenge-based approaches towards indiscipline.

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Authors: Hicham Achelhi, Lagziri Narjisse, Bennouna Mustapha, Truchot Patrick

Innovations are the result of a joint effort of a number of parties involved in the process of improving a country. Innovation has increasingly been reconigsed to be the key growth of Morocco and has attracted significant levels of academic attention over recent years. Nevertheless, there has however been less focus on the factors which prevent or inhibit innovative activity, the “barriers approach to innovation” especially in developing countries. In the Arab regions, studies on barriers to innovation are sparingly rare. There has not been research in the relevant literature that has identified the innovation barriers in Morocco; a detailed review related to innovation barriers has been conducted. This paper reports on the results of a study that examined barriers to firms’ innovation on a sample of 76 managers of enterprises in the Tangier&Tetouan region. Tangier&Tetouan is a dynamic region, and is also the recipient of generous investment, and is considered a strategic area for the development of Morocco. Indeed, the region is an important industrial center at the national level, occupying second place with 10% domestic value added, almost 8% of production and 14% of exports. The aim of this study is to determine the barriers in the innovation process in the Tangier&Tetouan region, and investigate the interrelations among them and develop a model that may measure the interacting effects of the barriers. The approach is based on a review of the scientific papers; analysis of available statistical data, national development documents, empirical researches and other secondary data. An in-depth study of fifteen barriers to innovation was completed through distributing questionnaires. The results were initially summarized using statistics to provide a better understanding of the respondents and characteristics of the responding companies. The paper concludes with an analysis of the complementarities between obstacles to arrive at the primary factors that are obstacles to innovation activity. Both internal and external determinants play a significant role in hindering innovation development. The analysis also explores the differences between firms by industry type and firm size. Furthermore, the level of importance of obstacles is different for innovator and non-innovator firms. Among the main results set for this research it cannot generalize the model of innovation in the region of Tangier&Tetouan. This paper is should be taken as the first study not only in investigating the barriers in the innovation process in Tangier&Tetouan region, but also in developing a model that may be used in solving the innovation barriers. The results of the study may be useful for both government and entreprises. The research results can be used in the development of public policy aimed at supporting and encouraging innovation among entreprises in Tangier&Tetouan region.

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Authors: Tohit Güneş, Fatma Taştan Akdağ

This study has been composed for determining the perceptions about energy, capasities of interdisciplinary relating and using knowledge, evaluating in terms of some factors towards science high school students. For this purpose, the study has been performed with 20 boys, 20 girls totally 40 students attend science high school in the center of Samsun. The datas have been obtained asking open-ended semi structured questions to the students, categorized and evaluated considering comprenehsion level scale (5 point likert scale) created by Abraham and Williamson (1994). It has seen that the students are not on the expected level of conceptional perception, description and conversion of energy and interdisciplinary knowledge transfer. It has been found out that demographic characteristics as socioeconomic status, gender, parents’ educational statues, sibling number, being boarder or day student are not related to researching factors. It has been determined that it can be useful teaching the subject of energy with a interdisciplinary approach shared by Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

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Authors: Gözde Yirmibeşoğlu, Aycan Demir

Domestic violence is one of the major problems in our country. In parallel with the number of domestic violence cases in the country, Antalya has a high number of such cases in particular. This study investigates the intensity of the domestic violence cases by carrying out a research on the number of appeals to arbitration in the context of the 6284, Protection of the Family and Prevention of the Domestic Violence Law. In addition, the Prosecution, the Judicial Courts and Family Courts in Antalya are studied in this research. Moreover, all the protection and struggle mechanisms to end domestic violence, Antalya Bar Council in particular, are explored. Women’s Rights Commission and Children’s Rights Commission working under Antalya Bar Council are studied. Thus, the study focuses on struggle and protection mechanisms to fight against violence against women and children. The study aims at clarifying the data including the numeral data with regards to domestic violence in Antalya. The method is developed by obtaining data and by analyzing them. In addition, the struggle methods are investigated by discussing the issue with Antalya Bar Council. Furthermore, the institutions of the Ministry and organizations working on this issue are studied. New Centers built on this issue in particular, working under the Family and Social Policies Administration named Prevention and Observation of Violence Centers are explored in this study. In addition, Child Observation Centers built in Antalya as a pilot city are researched in the study. Such centers are built to provide services such as health, education, police force legal aid to the sexually abused children with the contribution of state services.

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Authors: Aycan Demir, Gözde Yirmibeşoğlu

Participation of women in labor is important in terms of her representation in public sphere. Recently, the emphasis on her dual work as a wife and a mother in private sphere causes problems in her involvement in paid labor. Her roles as a wife and mother limits her while joining in the paid labor and even after being accepted. Moreover, women face with a lot of barriers with regards to high-ranked positions. Therefore, it is important that this traditional understanding be eradicated so that women can take part in paid work in great numbers. Special regulation in order to increase the number of working women and their social security rights are necessary. There are many regulations regarding women in the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law (5510). This study aims at investigating the regulations about “working women” in this Law 5510. Therefore, general regulations about working women in the Law are researched and regulations about long term and short term insurance specifications are studied. In addition, regulation about indebtedness of working women is investigated.