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Narrative Identity and Positive Youth Development in Turkish Emerging Adults: The Moderating Role of Cultural Self-Construals
No full textThe current study examined the associations between narrative coherence, the 5Cs of positive youth development, and cultural self-construals among 91 Turkish emerging adults (48 females, 42 males, and 1 other) aged between 18 and 29 (M-age = 23.01, SD = .52). Emerging adults partook in a life story interview to share three important narratives involving parental interactions that were assessed for causal and thematic coherence. Participants also self-reported on their positive development (competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection) and cultural self-construals (autonomy, relatedness, and autonomy relatedness). Results of path analysis revealed that high causal coherence in narratives was associated with lower levels of competence, confidence, and connection, whereas high thematic coherence was linked to higher levels of competence, confidence, and connection. Further, we examined the role of cultural self-construals in moderating the link between narrative coherence and the 5Cs. Thematic coherence was related to decreased caring when autonomy was high and relatedness was low. Thematic coherence was also related to increased connection only when autonomy was low and relatedness was high. Moreover, causal coherence was related to decreased caring and connection for emerging adults with highly autonomous self-construals. Similarly, causal coherence was associated with lower levels of confidence for emerging adults with high autonomous-related self-construals. Implications for research with Turkish emerging adults are discussed
Business Competencies for a Strategic Model Suitable for Digital Transformation
No full textTechnological advances have reached the power to change the structural features of organizations. For this reason, traditional methods of doing business are now shelved. It has been replaced by digital technologies. Today, we have come to a process where digital technologies are transformed. This process is tantamount to degradation and redesign. For this reason, businesses always have to keep up-to-date with the strategies about how they progress and the models that are the working logic of these strategies. The reason for existence does not change, but the ability to exist does. The aim is to lead a unique life course by the characteristics of the current era for the future. The aim of working with this point of view is to reveal the competencies that businesses should have to develop a strategic and original model suitable for the system structure in a period characterized by deterioration. What features are required to be successful in digital transformation and to continue living? This question is a research question. In the digital transformation process, I have explained this primarily through the mentality to be possessed. I characterized this structurally as the “entrepreneurial spirit” of the company. Afterward, I explained it in terms of having the technological software and hardware that should be owned financially. I tried to convey the next stage by taking action. I explained this with culture transfer through the mentality of the team and teammates who will do the job. In businesses, culture finds an area to spread through leaders. Therefore, in the next step, I touched on the leadership qualities that should be possessed in the digital transformation process and explained the relationship between the digital transformation process and digital business strategy in the final analysis. The general concept of the study was handled within the framework of transferring the basic business characteristics that must be possessed in the way of digital maturity that will enable us to adapt to the era to have a sustainable working logic suitable for digital transformation, and suggestions were made at the end with the discussion part. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
The trivialization of women's football in Turkey
No full textFootball is considered mainly a men's sport and pastime in Turkey, much like around the world, resulting in unequal treatment towards female practitioners. Women are othered through football, one manifestation of which is the trivialization of sport when played by women. This chapter addresses the trivialization of women's football in Turkey on multiple levels, from mundane procedures on match days to larger scale labor exploitation tied to lack of professionalization. I demonstrate that the multiple hierarchies within which Turkey's female footballers are situated make this a field of insecurity and precarity for them, limiting their resources for mobilization or resistance. The chapter is based on four months of qualitative fieldwork, mostly in Istanbul, with a total of 38 participants including footballers, coaches, club and federation administrators, sponsors, media representatives, and academics. © Abdullah Al-Arian, 2022. All rights reserved
Modern metropol ve karşılaşma mekanlarında gündelik pratikler: İstanbul’un metrobüsleri
Get PDFABSTRACT: Modern individuals live with the city. Nowadays, the content of this experience is significantly realized in metropolitan areas. Inhabitants practice in the spatially and temporally regulated, organized, and appropriated structure of the metropolis. An individual's practice as an inhabitant and then as an urban citizen is constructed through a city-appropriated essence. With its vast areal scale and planning paradigm of neoliberal governmentality, the metropolis enframes inhabitants' private but also public practices in its spatial structure that corresponds to market principles. Consequently, metropolitan inhabitants growingly become subjects of a homogenous consumption that prevailed in the spatial structuring of life practices. As they become more consumers than producers in the city, they are growingly losing their ability to relate and belong. Hence, the essence of togetherness is significantly actualized through the daily routines of embodied spaces for diverse and distant inhabitants of the metropolis. As a notable example of the condition, Istanbul’s metropolitan growth comes to the fore. Following the developmental planning paradigm, Istanbul has become one of the biggest metropolises in the world by eventually introducing its famous transportation system to meet growing demands for spatial-temporal maximization of mobility, the metrobus. In this light, the dissertation aims to analyze the idea and practice of togetherness realized in everyday practices of encountering spaces in Istanbul. The metrobus, as an important space for the plural and diverse encounters, has been selected as the subject of inquiry. Through field research conducted with semi-structured in-depth interviews between 2019 and 2020, the dissertation will present Istanbul’s spatial essence in the constitution of everyday life practices and the socio-spatial characteristics of transit mobility for regular metrobus passengers. The entangled layers of ordinary practices and regular transit mobility in Istanbul to make sense of socio-spatial togetherness will be questioned through encounters and interlocutors’ perceptions of being with others, hence togetherness.ÖZET: Modern bireyler şehirle birlikte yaşarlar. Günümüzde bu deneyimin içeriği büyük ölçüde metropollerde gerçekleşmektedir. Sakinleri, metropolün mekansal ve zamansal olarak düzenlenmiş, organize edilmiş ve sahiplenilmiş yapısında pratikler gerçekleştirir. Kamusal pratikler, aynı şekilde, metropolün geniş ölçeğinde yeniden yapılandırılır. Bireyin bir sakin olarak ve ardından bir kent vatandaşı olarak pratiği, kentin ona mal ettiği bir öz aracılığıyla inşa edilir. Geniş ölçeği ve neoliberal yönetimselliğin planlama paradigması ile metropol, piyasa ilkelerine tekabül eden özgün mekansal yapısı içinde yaşayanların özel ve aynı zamanda kamusal pratiklerini çerçeveler. Sonuç olarak, metropol sakinleri, gündelik yaşam pratiklerinin mekânsal yapılanmasında egemen olan homojen tüketimin özneleri haline gelmektedir. Şehirde üreticiden çok tüketici haline geldikçe, ilişki kurma ve ait olma yeteneklerini de giderek daha fazla kaybederler. Dolayısıyla, birlikteliğin özü, metropolün farklı ve uzak sakinleri için somutlaştırılmış alanların günlük rutinleri aracılığıyla önemli ölçüde gerçekleşir. Bu durumun önemli bir örneği olarak İstanbul'un metropoliten büyümesi ön plana çıkıyor. 1980'lerden sonra süreklilik içinde hüküm süren planlama paradigması ile dünyanın en büyük metropollerinden biri haline gelen İstanbul, hareketliliğin mekansal-zamansal maksimize edilmesine yönelik artan talepleri karşılamak için ünlü ulaşım sistemini yani metrobüsü kullanıma sundu. Bu bağlamda, çalışmanın amacı, İstanbul'daki karşılaşma mekanlarının gündelik pratiklerinde gerçekleştirilen birliktelik fikri ve pratiğini analiz etmektir. Çoğul ve çeşitli karşılaşmalar için önemli bir mekân olan metrobüs, araştırmanın saha çalışması olarak seçilmiştir. Tez, 2019-2020 yılları arasında yarı yapılandırılmış derinlemesine görüşmelerle gerçekleştirilen saha araştırması yoluyla, İstanbul'un gündelik yaşam pratiklerinin oluşumundaki mekansal özünü ve düzenli metrobüs yolcuları için toplu taşıma hareketliliğinin sosyo-mekansal özelliklerini ortaya koyacaktır. Sosyo-mekansal birlikteliği anlamlandırmak için İstanbul'daki sıradan pratiklerin ve düzenli toplu taşıma hareketliliğinin iç içe geçmiş katmanları, karşılaşmalar ve muhatapların başkalarıyla birlikte olma, dolayısıyla birliktelik algıları üzerinden sorgulanacaktır
POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH IN ADULTHOOD FOLLOWING CHILD, EARLY, AND FORCED MARRIAGES
No full textChild, early forced marriage (CEFM) is a gender-based harmful practice that disproportionately affects women and girls globally, preventing them from living their lives free of violence. The educational status and economic level of the family, domestic violence, sexist perspectives, and traditional practices formulate the environment that leads to the early marriage of girls. Early marriages strip these girls’ of their childhood, keep them away from their peers, cause them to discontinue their education, and trigger problems within their yet not fully formed social identities. Married children are subject to exploitation at home and become vulnerable to physical, sexual, and emotional domestic abuse, potentially leading to posttraumatic stress, postnatal depression, and possibly suicide. Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in CEFM is a multidimensional process affected by perceived social support, psychological resilience, and coping strategies. Active coping, social support, and resilience can allow survivors to progress from a negative trajectory toward PTG. Understanding CEFM as a violation of children and a crime on individual, societal, and governmental levels provide opportunities for preventive precautions and timely interventions. Informed by the author’s community-based clinical studies and experience, this chapter discusses CEFM, its correlates and outcomes, and its relationships to PTG. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Roni Berger
Integrating Robotic Fabrication into the Basic Design Studio
No full textDigital fabrication technologies are revealing new ways of dealing with design processes. Robotic fabrication technologies are generally dismissed at the undergraduate level, especially in first-year design education. This is due to the common belief that novice design students have insufficient skills for designing with a robotic arm. This paper presents an experiment that took place in a first-year basic design studio at a faculty of architecture. The studio investigates the utilization of a robotic arm as a design and production tool. Students without robot programming and operation skills were encouraged to transfer a priori skills of hand tools and techniques learned in successive assignments to utilize the robotic arm. This experiment revealed the educational potential strategies for the integration of robot technology in first-year design studios.[2018-02-012]AcknowledgementsThis research was supported by the Research Project nr. 2018-02-012 at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture. The Computation-based Basic Design Studios I and II mentioned in this paper were coordinated by Sebnem Yalinay Cinici. All images are by the authors
Music Videos as Protest Communication: Th e Gezi Park Protest on YouTube
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