International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

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Authors: Maria-Zoica Balaban

The society we are living in is the society of a simple click that opens the world, breaks the barriers and gives access to any type of information no matter time or space. Today, we can live, without any problems, in almost any language. It depends on the person’s interest and willingness to live in a certain language. The study aims at placing the term “home” in a close connection with the term “language” by determining whether the word is the only house that we have and accepting that language is a continuously changing and lifelong battlefield.With the help of metaphors (living metaphor, distance metaphor, mother metaphor, birth and family metaphor, etc.) that are among our principle tools for understanding the construction of linguistic, social and political reality, we have tried to conduct a double levelled research: on one side, the paper aims to identify the identity framework of living in a language (as a mother tongue, as a regional language – dialects, as a national language or official language, as a foreign language learning – which undoubtedly implies foreign culture learning by increasing awareness and developing people’s curiosity towards the target culture and their own, and, of course, helping people to be able to make comparisons among cultures or as a European language according to the Common European Framework for Foreign Languages which provides a common basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses, curriculum guidelines, examinations, textbooks across Europe or as a lingua franca). On the other side, the paper aims to highlight the fact that there are also risks related to the language leaving phenomenon. We live in a language in different ways, but at the same time, for different reasons, people are tempted to leave the language: immigration, high-tech effects, etc. Living in a language vs. leaving a language interfere and the two phenomena still raise questions among researchers and linguists.

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Authors: Figen Karaferye

Internationalization in the academic world has been a major research subject for the last several decades. Academic connections and collaborations between universities from different countries via joint research projects, education and training activities are very valuable. In establishing such connections, academics in staff mobility programs might play an important role in introducing their institution and carry a potential marketing element for future academic collaborations. In this respect, the aim of this study is to explore the awareness of academics on their role in academic marketing in the international higher education arena and to explore their expectations toward improving international education activities.

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Authors: Nesrin Duman

Emotional abuse, in other words psychological abuse; is a type of abuse characterized by an individual's exposure to or subordinate to another person, which may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Although psychological abuse collects other types of abuse under its umbrella; it gains less interest than other types of abuse (sexual, physical) seen in intimate relationships. The fact that there is no physical evidence visible in psychological abuse can keep this type of abuse hidden for years. Even if a person is introduced to this type of abuse by his or her parents through his childhood, he can continue his life for years without even realizing that he has suffered psychological abuse. In this study, it is aimed to understand the psychological abuse of adults more clearly and to raise awareness about the topic. For this purpose, 85 participants who have romantic relationship were subjected to a psychologically abusive behavioral questionnaire. As a result, participants were exposed to moderately abusive behaviors in romantic relationships. In addition, 51,28% of the participants exposed to these behaviors stated that they gained their awareness through questionnaires. The psychological abuse that few people can define is an essential issue to be recognized for the protection of both individual and social health.

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Authors: Ayşe Türksoy Işım , Burcu Güvendi , Turhan Toros

The aim of the research is to investigate amateur league footballers' motivational climate and decision making styles and Moral Disengagement in Sport levels. The study group of the study included 228 male football players (age =21,62±3,81 ve sports year =10,39±4,48) As a data collection tool; The ''Moral Disengagement in Sport Scale'' ,the ''Melbourne Decision Scale '' and the ''Motivational Climate Scale'' were used. In the analysis of the data; descriptive statistics, t test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation analysis were used. While footballers are trying to make careful decisions by trusting themselves instead of making decisions about avoidance, panic and delay, it has been determined that the penalized footballers make more inevitable decisions. It was also found that footballers with a performance climate are moving away from morality on the grounds.

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Authors: Zeynep Reva , Oguz Polat

Forced marriage, which is not entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, is violation of internationally recognised human rights standards. In Turkey; there are many types of forced marriage. Protecting perceived cultural or religious ideals is the most significant factor leads to forced marriage. A forced marriage will be a marriage where all kinds of violence in the family will most likely be experienced. Some European countries made forced marriage into a criminal offence, but it is not defined as a criminal offence in Turkey. This study aims to point out the situation and the types of forced marriages in Turkey and to bring suggestions to struggle with forced marriages.