Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2020
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ABSTRACT. Map renders the nation visible. It determines the borders of the homeland and distinguishes inside from the outside; it points to the probable threats to the land within the borders or engenders dreams of expansion towards outside the borders. Maps, through presenting the nation and the homeland within a meaningful coherence and concretizing them facilitates people to bond with this unity, hence reinforces the emotion of belonging to the nation. If there were no maps it would have been harder to think about the nation, feel a loya...
Umut TÜRK: INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ITS COMPONENTS: A RESEARCH ON TURKEY (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This paper aims to examine the inequality of opportunity in income distributions in Turkey in the 12 years between 2005 and 2017. As a normative equality theory, inequality of opportunity is a measure of the loss of utility that individuals experience out of their will and are not able to compensate the loss with their efforts and choices. In recent years, numerous empirical studies have been conducted on the inequality of opportunities in different countries and as comparative cross-country analysis. Especially, due to a la...
Demet LÜKÜSLÜ: FROM PRIVILEGED CATEGORY TO ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH (Turkish)ABSTRACT. Youth is a dynamic category which is defined differently at different periods. This paper discusses how the youth category goes through a transformation from the early 19th century when the modern youth category emerges to the neoliberal era. The paper analyzes the transformation of the youth category by first discussing how youth emerges as a privileged constructor category during which the education system promises social equality with modernity, how the category experiences a transformation by the massification of the education...
Aysun YARALI AKKAYA: READING THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY TO YOUTH THROUGH EXPECTATIONS AND RESULTS: THE CASE OF VAN YÜZÜNCÜ YIL UNIVERSITY (Turkish)ABSTRACT. This study is focused on analyzing the socio-political results of education mobility in Turkey’s higher education. In recent years higher education policies that are centered on students and aimed to increase the schooling rate became prominent. In addition to that, the acceleration of the “Bologna” process to be included in the European Higher Education Area increased international student transfers; but also domestic student transfers got support with a goal to deal with high demand and congestion. In this cont...
Evşen ALTUN ASLAN: SOCIAL STATUS AND SCHOOL CHOICE: PRIVATE SCHOOL AS CULTURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT (Turkish)ABSTRACT. The article focuses on the school choice in order to understand the strategies that middle-class families follow in the field of education in order to shape the social status of their children. In this context, the study aims to show the relationship between social status and school choices private school choices of middle-class families. In the study, which proposes that private school preferences are a cultural capital investment in order to differentiate children from the general classes and increase their social status, interv...
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