Faculty of Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of a surgical interface for robotic cryoablation task using an eye-tracking system
(Elsevier, 2016-11)Computer-assisted navigation systems coupled with surgical interfaces (SIs) are providing doctors with tools that are safer for patients compared to traditional methods. Usability analysis of the SIs that guides their ... -
Erratum to: improvement of design of a surgical interface using an eye tracking device
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Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'
(Berghahn, 2013-12)This article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in ... -
Houses on wheels: national attachment, belonging and cosmopolitanism in narratives of transnational professionals
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-04)This article contributes to discussions on the relationship between national attachments and cosmopolitanization by unpacking the meanings of national attachments and post-national identifications in the case of transnational ... -
Transcendental ethics
(Springer, 2011)Our ontological, epistemological and metaphysical point of view is a very important determinant of how we conceive ethics and the possibility of ethical discourse. Kant, G.E. Moore and Wittgenstein had a quite eloquent ... -
Migrants' uncertainties versus states' insecurities: transit migration in Turkey
(2014)Since the early 1980s, Turkey has become an important route for so-called transit migration flows in the south-east of Europe. People from different parts of the South and East have begun to use the Turkish peninsula as a ... -
The changing waves of migration from the Balkans to Turkey: a historical account
(Springer, 2015)Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Sert tell the history of migration from the Balkans to Turkey from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. They relate this history to nation-building, but also to economic conditions and ... -
Governing without control: Turkey's “struggle” with international migration
(Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2016)Since the 1980s, Turkey's role in the international migratory scene has changed substantially, as the country has transformed from being a country of origin to a country of destination and transit. Historical transformations ... -
A debate over return migration: the case of Turkish guest workers in Germany
(2016-03)This chapter aims to provide an overview of the return migration of Turkish guest workers and their family members. While doing so, it also elaborates on the theoretical and conceptual discussions of the notion of return ... -
Sculpting the nation in early republican Turkey
(Wiley, 2013)Public monuments and statues of Atatürk, the founding father of the Turkish republic, are everywhere in modern Turkey. By the time Atatürk died in 1938, hundreds of busts, statues and monuments of him had already been ... -
Issues of ideology and identity in Turkish literature during the Cold War
(2013)In the Cold War era, the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkey was dominated by efforts of democratization and liberalization, economic growth and instability, intellectual and ... -
Not so "traditional" anymore? generational shifts on schwartz values in Turkey
(Sage, 2017)We compare generational change in culturally related personal values as represented by the Schwartz values taxonomy, across two decades of individuals representing independent samples of the urban, Turkish workforce, ... -
Pancultural nostalgia: prototypical conceptions across cultures
(American Psychological Association, 2014-08)Nostalgia is a frequently experienced complex emotion, understood by laypersons in the United Kingdom and United States of America to (a) refer prototypically to fond, self-relevant, social memories and (b) be more pleasant ... -
The associations between adult attachment, posttraumatic symptoms, and posttraumatic growth
(Informa Group Company, 2016)Background and Objectives: Individual differences after trauma vary considerably and can range from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to posttraumatic growth (PTG). Current theoretical models cannot fully explain this ... -
Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
(Wiley, 2012-09)My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class ... -
Sleepwalking in İstanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpınar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish ... -
Tackling Duhemian problems: an alternative to skepticism of neuroimaging in philosophy of cognitive science
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-12)Duhem’s problem arises especially in scientific contexts where the tools and procedures of measurement and analysis are numerous and complex. Several philosophers of cognitive science have cited its manifestations in fMRI ... -
The children's social understanding scale: construction and validation of a parent-report measure for assessing individual differences in children's theories of mind
(American Psychological Association, 2014)Children’s theory of mind (ToM) is typically measured with laboratory assessments of performance. Although these measures have generated a wealth of informative data concerning developmental progressions in ToM, they may ... -
"Old oxen cannot plow": Stereotype themes of older adults in Turkish folklore
(Oxford Publishing, 2015)Purpose of the Study: Although much research has established the nature of attitudes and stereotypes toward older adults, there are conflicting explanations for the root cause of ageism, including the sociocultural view ... -
One size doesn't fit all: toward a theory on the intersectional salience of ageism at work
(Sage, 2015)Much of the research on the effects of age in the workplace has ignored the role of contextual factors, and the intersection of multiple group identities. In seeking to address these shortcomings, we provide a theoretical ...
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