2012 Cilt 5 Sayı 1-2
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Item Open Access Managing the educated docility in the french hypermarkets: How do the unskilled retail jobs seduce the working class youth?(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Hocquelet, MathieuFocusing on changes of the workforce, this article deal with a cohort of young French workers who interrupted their studies between the end of the secondary school and the commencement of the university courses, in order to occupy at full time an unskilled job (UJ) in retail. Both this cohort and these jobs have undergone an increase since the mid 1990s, driven by the development of services and the orientation of education policies. Facing their recent overrepresentation in unskilled service jobs, this communication study the relationship between the management of a new workforce through productive restructuring of retail firms, meeting the hopes, values and representation of this category of young people whose insertion goes through an UJ. This paper illustrates the growing consideration by the retail industry for the specific resources of this workforce, stagnating in UJ during several years, where their practical intelligence allows them to be protected against the exacerbation of the branch’s contradictions and tensions. The usage of this particular docility as a skill illustrates an educated precariousness jointly developed with the education revolution and the expansion of schooling.Item Open Access From foe to friend: Turkish-Russian relations in the 21st century(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Gökırmak, Mert; Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi/Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü.After the restrictive and deterrent dynamics of the Cold War, the relationship between Turkey and Russia seemed likely to produce back-breaking competition and to cause conflicts in the Turkish Republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus. For a period of time, these predictions have indeed come true. Turkey has begun wholesale cooperation with the Turkish states that were former Soviet Republics and Russia did not approve this affiliation. Nevertheless, this was the first step in Turkey’s multidimensional and regional foreign policy within the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and Central Asia primarily comprise a wide range of commercial concerns. Today, Turkey perceives the Black Sea, the Caucasus and the whole of Eurasia not as an arena for competition but as an agora for cooperation. This article argues that, the twenty-first century represents a milestone for Turkish-Russian relations. The changing circumstances of international politics and economics have mutually attracted the two nations. Turkey and Russia are no longer rivals; they now have complementary economies and interests that require them to form a new multilevel partnership.Item Open Access Micro-finance and social capital: A study of microfinance institutions in Andhra Pradesh, India-2009(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Ajit, D.; Rajeev, C. B.The study examines the economic and social impacts of microfinance program in Andhra Pradesh, India – the state which accounted for about one-fourth of the microfinance institutions in India. Using primary survey data, the study found that microfinance programs created high repayment rates but the economic impact in terms of net income was not substantial. The study explains this paradox in terms of multiple memberships in other MFIs and borrowing from non-institutional sources like money lenders which facilitates poor households to undertake double-dipping and cross-finance borrowings. But the study found women’s participation in microfinance programs helps to increase women empowerment and facilitate enhancement of social ties within the group and outside the group (in civil society). It also enabled them to undertake collective action against some of the loan-shark and unethical behavior of MFIs in the state.Item Open Access Turkish primary education students’ evaluation of the instructional activities based on social learning theory: Analysis of an experimental study(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Demirbaş, Murat; Yağbasan, Rahmi; Atıf 4.0 UluslararasıThis paper reveals the results of instructional activities based on social learning theory to examine the impact on primary education students’ scientist views and scientific method knowledge. The study was conducted with three different 7th grade treatment and control groups from primary schools with similar socio-economic statuses. In the treatment group, activities based on social learning theory were used, whereas in the control group the instructional activities taking place in the existing science curriculum were used. In the study by the researcher, is considered another dimension of experimental research is carried out in 2004 (Demirbaş ve Yağbasan, 2006). The scientist and scientific method views of the students at the end of the process were determined using semi-structured questions prepared by the researchers. The data of the study were interpreted using qualitative research techniques. At the end of the study, the instructional activities used in the treatment group were found to help students develop positive attitudes towards scientists, and also to contribute to understanding the basic philosophy of scientific work. Based on the results of this study, appropriate activities for instructional settings were recommended.Item Open Access Does gentrification displace the urban poor? The case of Bursa, Turkey(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Bıçkı, Doğan; Özgökçeler, Serhat; Uludağ Üniversitesi/İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi/Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Bölümü.Gentrification is probably the most debated category of all the urban renewal strategies. This is because, as a consequence of the gentrification process, there is a possibility that social change may occur that may lead to changes in the social pattern (Ball, 2002, p.833). This possibility is, for some, an inevitable consequence and for some others a case to be approached with relativity. Our stance in this study is that local conditions, such as cultural or historical capital, should be taken into consideration not only due to their formation but also to their consequences. In this regard, the goal of the study is to identify whether the urban renewal observed in the Tophane Hisar district in Bursa, one of the historical cities in Turkey, could be analyzed through the concept “gentrification”. In addition, if it could, what will its scope be? And is the displacement of the urban poor by gentrification an issue for this district?Item Open Access A new perspective to integrate different social capital concepts(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Euler, Mark; Freese, JanThe debate about ‘social capital’ is presented in brief. It is assumed that the discussion about it reissues the since the Enlightenment existing debate about the relation between individual and society. In this debate two lines of argumentation can be identified. On the one hand, a rather individualistic concept exists which sees social capital as an individual resource; and on the other hand, a rather collective understanding which sees social capital as pan-social phenomenon. The main goal of this article is to offer a new perspective that makes the integration of these two paradigms possible. Therefore new insights from the field of analytic philosophy are used to modify the concepts of social capital, focussing on the individualistic direction and in particular on Becker’s human capital theory. The resulting new perspective turns social capital into the core social category and is also calling for a new understanding of economics and management.