Social Constitution of the AKP's strong state through financialization: state in crisis, or crisis state?

Social representation of European Union Önal, Elif Sandal; Öner Özkan, Bengi; Department of Psychology (2007) The main aim of this study was to reveal the prevailing social representations of European Union. In order to fulfill the aim, first a semi-structured interview was conducted to 13 demographically different individuals and the content analysis of the interviews revealed five categories namely, Turkey’s membership to EU, Problems of Turkey, Structure of EU, EU as Disadvantageous and EU as Advantageous. Second, in order to examine the media representation of EU, three newspapers representing different politic...
Social identity and constructions of European Union among Turkish University youth Cem, Nevra; Hortaçsu, Nuran; Department of Psychology (2003) The aim of this study was twofold: to investigate (i) the relationship between values, social identities, constructions of European Union (EU) and (ii) reactions to December 12th Copenhagen decision concerning Turkey. In order to fullfil the aim, two methodologically different analyses were carried out: A qualitative analysis of newspapers representing different ideologies, and a quantitative analysis of Turkish university students̕ responses to questionaries. The qualitative analysis revealed different con...
Social representations of psychology of gender and women in Turkish novels Yılmaz, Fatih; Öner Özkan, Bengi; Department of Psychology (2014) Theory of social representations says the group affects its member and at the same time the member affects its group. As people interact with each other, they reconstruct the world socially. This mutual interaction leads to a new type of knowledge. This knowledge is called everyday knowledge. Biological sex does not inform us about issues like gender roles, inequality between genders, women in the workplace whereas gender does; because gender is reconstructed. Language has a role in keeping, transferring an...
Social political discourse of the surveillance society Yumurtacı, Egemen Nilüfer; Okyayuz, Mehmet; Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies (2003) This thesis aims to discuss the Surveillance Society discourse, especially in relation with political analysis in a historical framework by means of new technologies. This study also analyzes the use of so-called revolutionary information and telecommunication technologies for data recording and tracking is analyzed, which is used to regulate the order of the system by the power holders. The limits of thought are traced to Foucault and Lyon. To this context an attempt is made to show that surveillance/ moni...
Social policy making in the EU: contending paradigms and alternative approaches Günel, Selen; Yalman, Osman Galip; Department of European Studies (2008) This thesis analyzes the evolution of European social policy via focusing on the unfolding contentions between two different notions that disagree over Europe’s direction regarding the best social-economic system in Europe. Taking its point of departure in the ratification crisis and the impasse surrounding the Constitutional Treaty, the thesis argues that the contrasting interpretations of the Treaty and the attendant cleavages in the European polity are illustrations of such ongoing ideological struggles ...

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P. Bedirhanoğlu Toker, Social Constitution of the AKP’s strong state through financialization: state in crisis, or crisis state? 2020.