Browsing by Author "Toprak, Ziya."

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    Academic writing and the experiences of graduate students and supervisors/advisors :|the case of educational studies
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.) Toprak, Ziya.; Caner, Ayşe.; Gök, Fatma.
    This study questions quality and experiences of graduate writing in the field of educational studies. A typical graduate work has three basic components; the writer, the advisor and the text. By using two-phase research, the present study investigates all three components. The first phase of the research examines the quality of graduate theses written in the field of education studies. The quality examination is done by using a plagiarism detection software with respect to two parameters; similarity and plagiarism. 600 theses and dissertations written in the field of educational studies are analyzed. Findings show that the mean similarity index of the sample is 28.58%, which is significantly higher than the mean threshold. The rate of theses and dissertation having high-level plagiarism is 34.5%. The second phase of the study deals with the experiences and perceptions of academic writing among graduate students, and advisors’ perceptions of academic writing and their advising practices by conducting in-depth interviews. 12 advisors and 24 graduate students are included as participants. MAQXDA, a qualitative data analysis program, is used for the content analysis of interviews. Findings show that advisors and students have a difficulty in grasping requirements of academic writing. Participants regularize and understand from academic writing an epidemic conception of writing, which repeats itself across different cases while making limited contribution. It has been suggested that the genre qualities of academic writing in the field of educational studies can explain the theses and dissertations plagiarized and having originality issues.
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    Modern self and social imaginary: civil society organizations as the agents of fashioning modern mothers
    (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.) Toprak, Ziya.; Okçabol, Rıfat,
    This study basically argues the ways of operation of civil society organizations (CSOs) on micro-level of society. Based on this discussion, it offers to interrogate the micro-levels of Turkish modernity which also has been a missing part in the research of Turkish modernization. Particularly after the Marmara Earthquake of 1999, CSOs have appeared as mechanisms which provide social services to people and disseminate peculiar imaginaries. It also the same process through which middle classes has begun to voice their desire to transform particular domains of society. This case of this study is on AÇEV (Anne Çocuk Eğitim Vakfı). It analyzes the imaginary of AÇEV which opens up a “space of intervention” and is articulated through discourses of the normal development of children and modernizing motherhood. The analyses of this study consist of three parts. In the first part, the official social imaginary of AÇEV is interpreted. In the process of interpretation I problematized the projects and techniques deployed in AÇEV programs via using analytical tools provided by governmentality studies. Second part of the analyses is concerned with AÇEV’s Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP) as a mechanism to fashion modern mother. Finally, at the third part, I interpreted the interviews that I have conducted with the mothers who has participated in MOCEP to see the effects of program.