Participatory Visual Research Methods

The methodological crisis that resulted from conservative, closed-circle orthodoxy in the field of social sciences has led us to question our toolbox of empirical research methods over the last dec...

Ethnographic research, including interviews, focus groups, and observations were conducted to explore gendered dimensions of smoking among low level smokers, including the acceptability of smoking in different contexts; reasons for smoking; the monitoring of self and friends’ smoking; and shared smoking as a means of…

Triangulation is a methodological approach that involves using multiple methods or data sources to enhance the credibility and validity of research findings. This approach is useful in qualitative studies that aim to gain a deeper understanding of complex social phenomena and to understand the intricacies of multicult…

• CEM HARUN MEYDAN
• HANDAN AKKAŞ

In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that contemporary understandings have made with poverty. For each theme, we consider the portrayals of po…

• AHMET EKİCİ

Action research is characterized by a new paradigm of empowering teachers to monitor their own practices in a more autonomous manner with a vision of challenging and improving their own techniques of teaching through their own participatory research. Yet in spite of this apparently radical shift in the function of the…

• MUSTAFA NACİ KAYAOĞLU

Introduction: Mixed methods research intervention studies integrate quantitative evaluation approaches, such as randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs, with qualitative research to evaluate the effectiveness, efficacy, or other results of an intervention or program. These types of studies, which h…

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• FATMA AHSEN ÖZSOY

This paper discusses barriers to civic engagement of disadvantaged young people that we observed in the course of a child-friendly city project in Turkey. It also emphasizes the importance of being prepared to overcome such barriers, some of which were quite unexpected. Results show that many of the unexpected issues…

• YÜCEL CAN SEVERCAN

Fotoses, bireylerin günlük yaşamlarını fotoğrafladıkları katılımcı bir eylem araştırması yöntemidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinin pandemi deneyimlerini inceleyen fotoses etkinliğini benzersiz ve yenilikçi bir yöntem olarak belirlemektir. Bu çalışmada Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sosyal Hizmet bölümü…

• MELİH SEVER
• SEYHAN ÖZDEMİR

This study used online photovoice to study students’ perceptions of online/distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aimed to (a) find the factors that facilitated and impeded online/distance education during the pandemic and (b) determine to which level of ecological systems theory participants attributed f…

• AHMET TANHAN
• GÖKMEN ARSLAN
• HAYATİ ADALAR

This study used online photovoice to study students’ perceptions of online/distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aimed to (a) find the factors that facilitated and impeded online/distance education during the pandemic and (b) determine to which level of ecological systems theory participants attributed f…

• GÖKMEN ARSLAN
• HAYATİ ADALAR
• YAKUP SUBAŞI

Abstract This article presents a unique amalgam across artistic research and rural sociology. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between a University and an arts organisation in England, which invited an artist to respond to a highly contentious topic in rural England: housing development. The ambition…

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