International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

356 - 360

Authors: Vedije Ratkoceri

Protecting children from sexual violence represents one of the basic premises of any state of contemporary society. It is quite necessary to take all necessary measures to prevent these criminal acts. The Republic of Macedonia last few years has taken a series of legislative measures aimed at preventing and punishing the most severe offenders of sexual assault against children. Taking only harsh punishments and repressive measures against the perpetrators are not enough for the prevention of sexual assault offenses against children. Those persons should be treated medically in order not to repeat the offense. Chemical castration is considered as most appropriate form of treatment of pedophiles in the world. In 2014 The Republic of Macedonia made a step further by incorporating in its criminal legislation, the pharmacological-medical treatment of perpetrators of sexual assaults against a child who has not attained the age of 14 a.k.a. chemical castration. This article aims to theoretically elaborate this measure as it is regulated in the Criminal Code and in the Law on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions by analyzing the respective articles in order to see the manner, the conditions and the circumstance of its regulation and execution.

379 - 396

Authors: Yeliz Kuşay

The crisis that may threat the existence of the entities and lead to unfavorable impacts on their future can be overcome via successful crisis communication strategies. The foresight of the aspects of crisis in advance and taking leading precautions related to them have been described as pre-crisis proactive crisis communication when the reactive crisis communication is described as the studies on creating impacts on crisis perception, revitalizing the image or creating a positive impact on the image.Within the scope of this study, the shopping centers’ proactive and reactive crisis communication strategies are going to be assessed as they represent the areas where most people usually gather with the purpose of either spending time on social and leisure activities or entertainment. The crisis communication strategies on possible crisis that may be experienced at Shopping Centers (SC) are going to be examined. During the interviews with SC managers, the inquiries related to whether they have a proactive and reactive crisis communication strategy and what kind of communication strategy they follow up. The purpose of this study is determining the crisis communication strategies of SC managements in case of possible crisis. How conscious strategies are followed by the SC managements against recently experienced unfavorable conditions that either betray peoples’ trust or threaten their lives are going to be examined. Accordingly, both the existing relevant practices and improvement areas are going to be determined.

406 - 410

Authors: Ayla Deniz, E. Murat Özgür

After 1990’s, Russia-Turkey migration system has developed and a great number of Russian women and Turkish men have started to cross the border for various purposes. Within this mobility, new social, culturel, economic and political realities have emerged. One of the most important realities is increasing of Russian-Turkish couples and their important roles on the Russia-Turkey migration system. Just like Ley and Waters (2004) said, migrants not only move from one place to another, but also move from one set of social relations to another. In this context, I'd like to mention about what has happened in lives of mixed families in İstanbul after an aircraft belonging to Russian Federation Air Forces was shoot-down by Turkish Air Forces on the November 24th, 2015. This study based on interviews with marriage migrants, their couples and representatives of Russian institutions in İstanbul. In conclusion, the crisis between Russia and Turkey has affected lives of Russian women in İstanbul both negative and positive ways. These women are foreigners in Turkey and their limited social environments have imprisoned them to a narrow area during the crisis. But they have tried to bring into connection with two parts of the crisis and have tried to stand between Turkey and Russia by using their institutional networks which also have supported their collective identities.

425 - 433

Authors: Aynur Karabacak

The main purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between cognitive distortions and psychological wellbeing in emerging adulthood university students. The research was carried on 253 university students who continue their education in Ataturk University Kazım Karabekir Education Faculty in 2016-2017 education years. Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Scale and Psychological Well Being Scale were used in the research. On the data obtained in the survey the relationship between cognitive distortions and psychological wellbeing is examined with Pearson correlation analysis, and the predictive effect of cognitive distortions in psychological wellbeing is examined with hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Research results indicate that there is a negative significant relationship between cognitive distortions avoidance of intimacy sub scale and psychological wellbeing and a positive significant relationship between mind reading and psychological wellbeing. Besides avoidance of intimacy and mind reading are significant predictors of psychological wellbeing.

448 - 455

Authors: Ayten Pınar Bal, Ahmet Karacaoğlu

This research was aim to evaluate solution strategies of algebraic verbal problems and generated error types in terms of the point of views of teachers. This study is a study in which quantitative methods were used to obtain the point of views of teachers towards strategies and error types in solution of algebraic verbal problems. The primary school mathematics teachers working in schools of central counties of Adana province in 2012-2013 academic year formed the population of this research. In sum, in the scope of this study it was found out that the teachers think the students can apply trial and error, systemmatic distribution, inverse operation, forming and solving equation strategies effectively and they can mostly make logical mistakes. In this study only the opinions of teachers were taken. Studies in which the opinions of students are taken, will also be done. It can be suggested that the teachers can concentrate on questions in class that can resolve logical errors and use activities that can develop their algebraic reasoning strategies.

467 - 474

Authors: Emine Özge Yurdakurban, Umut Öneş

In the wake of recent global financial crisis, growing emphasis has been put on central bank reliability and transparency, especially for the developing countries. In our paper, we built a macroeconomic model to test the impact of central bank reliability on the inflation targeting performance by the bank. To this end, we utilized the indexes developed by Cukierman et.al.(1993); and Dinçer and Eigenberg (2013) to calculate a measure of Turkish Central Bank reliability for the past two decades, and ran a multi-equation time series regression to analyze the effect of institutional independence and transparency on inflation targeting performance, while controlling for other macroeconomic indicators that impact inflation. We found that higher degrees of perceived transparency of the central bank has a positive effect on the inflation targeting performance. Also, transparency seems to be a better proxy for the overall institutional change the Turkish economy experienced in the last two decades.

486 - 498

Authors: Yıldız Derya Birincioğlu

National narrative is a modern political view that still preserves its ideological effect today. Ideologies, frequently, utilize means of communication, particularly the motion pictures, in order to stimulate and canalize the society’s reflexes on the thought process. Cinematic narratives, by means of the clichés that it enriches, on one hand feed the prejudices and on the other, are fed by these prejudices. In this regard, the memory trajectories, which will shape the societal structuring and national identity, sometimes on the grounds of reality and on other occasions, of fiction, with the stereotypes in the stories of the movies, are formed. National narrative and national identity can ensure continuity so long as such are commonized, interchanged and regenerated within the scope of daily life practices. The images, which form the national narrative and/or national identity, are constituted on the basis of societal gender and incorporate feminine contents rather than a masculine hegemony. Thus, it can be enunciated that national narrative constructs a gender-oriented organizational form, which aims to transform social equalities, national identity, national superiority and national power into a resource. In this context, the approaches by FloyaAnthias and Nira Yuval-Davis on the roles assigned to women within the national narratives establish the core feature of this study in order to analyze the codes on feminine contents leaked into the daily life practices. The aim of this study is to reveal by comparison of movies, which are the productions of two different countries, Son Mektup(2015) by ÖzhanEren, ÇanakkaleYolunSonu (2013) by SerdarAkar and Çanakkale 1915 (2012) by YeşimSezgin, all of which were shot following the year of 2000, the contribution of these movies on the Turkish nationalism discourse, how the national narrative was rebuilt by means of the femininity construct and what is the effect of societal gender roles within the transformation process of identities situated by the image repertoires into national identities.

508 - 518

Authors: Emel Tanyeri Mazıcı, Kürşad Gölgeli

Corporate reputation consists of the total of emotions, opinions and perceptions of all the shareholders of the institution. Company employees, who has an important place within these shareholders also play an effective role in success and continuity of the company by being affected from the activities, directly or indirectly. At this point, in the forming of the emotions, opinions and perceptions of employees, job satisfaction that is achieved in time has the key importance. Thus, the employees who are the internal shareholders contribute to the corporate reputation through job satisfaction. In this study, job satisfaction, which is created via the effect of many variables, is evaluated through “social gender equality”. Such that, gender equality and how the company carries this variable will contribute to the corporate reputation by differing positively in the trust in the company, sense of justice and job satisfaction of the employees. In the Erciyes University Example, which is found in the application part of the study, perceptions of academicians, who are a profession group that have an important place in society, on corporate reputation and job satisfaction levels will be analyzed through social gender equality by survey scanning as an empirical method and some evaluation and suggestions will be made.

531 - 539

Authors: Sümeyra Bağatur

For language teaching many resources have been used as a vehicle to teach the language more efficiently in the course of time. It is, however, widely accepted that literature has proved to the the best and the most beneficial resource in language teaching. It is of great value in this sense. This paper will first present some ideas about the use of literature in language teaching, then, I will explain why we use literature, and how we should choose literary texts in our language classes. In the following part, I will present the second part of the paper, which is composed of the literary genres like novel, short story, drama and poetry. And in the closing part, I will give an interpretation of Common European Framework of References (CEFR) and how the use of literature can be implemented into CEFR in language teaching.

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Authors: Mehmet Çakır

Discussions of the meaning of justice has continued to the present day, dominated by the thought of living together and we have called that a “society” since the process of the emergence of rational order by dressing up different meanings. On this concept which is in the agenda of philosophy and political theorists studies have been done throughout history. So the issue was constantly discussed that how it should be fair social order. Especially, due to globalization the binding location for anyone, it has become difficult to determine the principles of social justice. In this study, what are the main issues the focus of ongoing discussions justice from the past up to the present? How accurate is to evaluate justice concept only as a legal concept? What are the changes of concept of social justice in the chronological process? Is it possible to imagine a society, intercultural transition easier, a world order in which multicultural life spread, who legally binding for everyone and every individual is provided with equal rights, in which the domination of the principles of social justice? will discuss in the context of the above questions issues which related to the concepts of justice and social justice, theorists of justice who from Yusuf Has Hacib to David Miller. Our study is formed by the literature review method. Discussions will be evaluated in a systematic axis. In this study, it is intented to create a systematic information reservoir and to provide a perspective for researchers interested in the subject for justice.

583 - 594

Authors: Zeynep Öner, Tohit Güneş

The study was carried out to determine the opinion of science teachers regarding informal practices conducted as part of the ‘Let’s Travel and Learn About the Living World’ Unit. To this end, a total of 58 fifth grade students studying in three secondary schools, including a state school and a private school in Samsun city center and a village school in the Bafra district, took part in informal practices. 11 teachers, who joined these practices voluntarily and participated in them actively, were also included in the study extending over two days. During the practices, the 11 teachers who voluntarily attended the study were given a Student Observation Form, consisting of half-elaborated questions that once completed were analyzed separately. According to the findings, the teachers actively participated in the study observed that informal practices were effectively in education, had positive cognitive and affective impact on the students and indicated that they had positive opinions on informal practices. Teachers expressed that informal practices were important also because of enabling students hands on learning. Given that science is a life-oriented subject, it is important to integrate with educational activities because of the fact that science involves informal rather than formal acquisition of knowledge by the individual during one’s lifetime. It is found out remarkable that teachers who are executers of their lessons have positive opinions on informal practices enabling hands on learning on life oriented science. Therefore, it is thought that it could be educatory making these types of practices widespread.

607 - 618

Authors: Yeliz Yeşil, Fatma Fidan

Continuous training, development and adaptation skills are necessary for the green economy to meet the changing human resource demands. Green jobs have gained importance in the transition to green economy. Researching green jobs are necessary for helping staff development at labor market and building training units which train human resources for these jobs. The aims of this study are examining the development of green jobs and their characteristics and differences from existing professions and evaluating training and gaining skills activities about green jobs. In this study, it appears that requires a different educational and training process of the characteristics of green jobs. The educational process will have the following characteristics; • Dynamic, shows continuous change and development, • It offers multiple skills and knowledge, • It consists of an interactive process, • It requires the cooperation of different institutions and bodies, • It is interdisciplinary. Green jobs require different training programs and processes. Green jobs are often "local" in nature and need appropriate training processes. Effective policies should be developed for green jobs and the labor market. Within this scope, training modules related to green activity areas should be determined and systems should be established within the framework of sustainability.

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Authors: Mehmet Polat

TRA2, which is a sub-region of North-eastern Anatolia Region, contains the least developed cities which are Ağrı, Iğdır, Kars and Ardahan within itself. It is seen that applied policies and provided governmental incentive have not contributed enough to the development of the region; therefore, difference of development level between the region and other regions has been increased progressively. It is, in the globalising world, thought that agricultural and livestock industries have lost their significance. However, even in the most developed countries, agricultural and livestock industries become more of an issue both economically and socially. Livestock industry is very important for healthy and balanced nutrition of the increasing population in Turkey like all over the world. On the other hand, this sector has social and economic functions on providing rural development. These functions provide balanced growth in the country reducing unemployment in rural areas in conjunction with social problems such as preventing rural-urban migration, decreasing the non-planned urbanization and overpopulation, and fulfil the obligations providing raw materials for the sub-industries such as flesh, milk, leather, cosmetic, medicine and etc. Livestock sector is in the forefront in the area because the region has suitable, quality and wide pasturelands. Livestock farming is carried through with sophisticated techniques as well as it is one of the most important source of income. Livestock sector is of prime importance since it adds high level value into entity investment, employs with low cost, and provides input for many branches of industry sector. The current state of the livestock sector that has a very significant role in developing the region, and the encountered problems were determined in the study; fields of activity related with developing the sector were analysed SPSS survey programme; and solutions about certain problems were proposed.

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Authors: Bedriye Tunçsiper, Büşra Uçar

Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis asserts that environmental pollution and destruction increase with positive economic growth until a certain income level. When reached such a certain level, environmental pollution begins to decrease. In this study, the validity of Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis is tested for Turkey. Annual data for 1980-2011 period is used for analysis. The relationship between CO2 emission and per capita income is analyzed with Granger Causality Test. According to the test result, it is found that Environmental Kuznets Curve is not valid for Turkish economy as the variables has no causal correlation between.

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Authors: Nurcan Demirel, Serhat Özbay, Fatih Kaya, Metin Bayram

The purpose of this study is to analyse the effects of aerobic and anaerobic training programs applied to elite wrestlers on body composition. 20 elite wrestler student whose average age is (experiment group; 15.20±4.61, n=10), control group; 15.90±2.08, n=10) participated to the study and they were divided into two groups randomly. Strength and durability training program based on “one day aerobic, one day anaerobic” principles was applied to the experiment group six days in a week for eight weeks. Control group continued to do normal routine wrestling technical training. Before and after eight weeks training program body analyse measurements were taken from experiment and control group. (Tanita) According to the results of the study, impedance, body fat percentage and fat mass from body composition indicators of experiment group significantly decreased from pretest to posttest while fat-free body mass and whole body water increased significantly. (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in body weight, body mass index and bazal metabolic rate. (p>0.05). However, for control group; body weight, fat-free body mass and whole body water values from body mass index indicators of control group significantly increased from pretest to posttest. (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in body mass index, bazal metabolic rate, impadence, body fat percentage and fat mass (p>0.05). As a result, pretest and posttest cahangings are similar in both groups and there was no significant difference between two groups. (p>0.05). Paired- samples t test was used for in-group comparison and independent sample t test was used for intergroup comparisons in statistical analyses. Significance level was determined as p<0.05. Average and standard deviation were used for all values. As a result, this study did not reveal a significant difference on control group athletes who practice regularly. However, training program which has variable types and volume made significant differences on experiment group. There was no significant difference between two groups even though positive changings in experiment group were clearer.