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Sara Fregonese 2019: War and the city: Urban geopolitics in Lebanon. London: I.B. Tauris
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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 ... -
The senior discount: biases against older career changers
(Wiley, 2013-02)This study examined age discrimination in between- vs. within-career job transitions. We expected that older workers transitioning into a new field would experience greater age discrimination than those who change jobs ... -
Severe tests in neuroimaging: what we can learn and how we can learn it
(University of Chicago Press, 2014)Considerable methodological difficulties abound in neuroimaging and several philosophers of science have recently called into question the potential of neuroimaging studies to contribute to our knowledge of human cognition. ... -
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 ... -
Social experiences of Turkish parents raising a child with apert syndrome: A qualitative study
(Sage, 2021-02)Objective: Apert syndrome is a rare and understudied craniofacial condition with regard to its psychosocial impact on children and their parents. Due to the lack of studies focusing solely on the social experiences of ... -
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
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Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
(The Cognitive Science Society, 2021)There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy ... -
Status quo conservatism, placation, or partisan division? Analysing citizen attitudes towards financial reform in the United States
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-04)Within the literature on financial governance a key question is why the 2008 financial crisis did not elicit a stronger regulatory reaction than it did - the 'post-crisis stasis' puzzle. We explore a neglected dimension ... -
Stepping into the global: Turkish professionals, employment in transnational corporations, and aspiration to transnational forms of cultural capital
(Sage, 2018-05)This article explores the narratives of professionals from Turkey working in transnational corporations to contribute to discussions of new middle classes and global stratification focusing on emerging forms of cultural ... -
Stigma for common mental disorders in racial minorities and majorities a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-08)Background: There is a strong stigma attached to mental disorders preventing those affected from getting psychological help. The consequences of stigma are worse for racial and/or ethnic minorities compared to racial and/or ... -
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Students’ self-presentation on Facebook: an examination of personality and self-construal factors
(Elsevier, 2012-11)The present research seeks to extend existing theory on self-disclosure to the online arena in higher educational institutions and contribute to the knowledge base and understanding about the use of a popular social ... -
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement’s response in turkey
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Suggestions on the social meaning and functions of akhi hospices in medieval anatolia
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-01-01)The Islamic tradition of futuwwa (Turk. futuvvet), or ethical codes, received a certain degree of political legitimacy when the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah (r. 1180–1225) admitted it to courtly life. Soon after, ... -
Symbolism overshadows the effect of physical size in supra-second temporal illusions
(Springer Nature, 2019-11)The perception of quantities has been suggested to rely on shared, magnitude-based representational systems that preserve metric properties. As such, different quantifiable dimensions that can characterize any given stimulus ... -
The synergy of teacher-child dependency and temperament for children’s early language skills
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-04)Shy children are less likely to interact with peers and teachers, ask questions, and participate in classroom activities. Children low in attention and inhibitory control also perform worse academically. Although research ... -
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 ... -
Teachers' innovativeness and teaching approach: The mediating role of creative classroom behaviors
(Scientific Journal Publishers, 2018-10)We examined the associations between teachers' innovativeness, creative classroom behaviors, and teaching approach (constructivist and traditional) focusing in particular, on the mediating role of teachers' creative classroom ... -
Technology and social theory
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012-10)More than twenty-five years ago social theorist Randall Collins aptly pointed out that technology was one of sociology’s “unexplored dark spots.” Had he then perused the pages of Technology and Culture, he could have noted ...
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