Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research

Two experiments examined the factors that influence and the psychological processes that underlie country-of-origin evaluations. Subjects received attribute information that was either condensed in a single product or dispersed across several products manufactured in a country with relatively unfavorable associations.…

Nowadays, internet-based surveys are increasingly used for data collection, because their usage is simple and cheap. Also they give fast access to a large group of respondents. There are many factors affecting internet surveys, such as measurement, survey design and sampling selection bias. The sampling has an importa…

• ZERRİN AŞAN GREENACRE

This article offers an economic analysis of color-blind alternatives to conventional affirmative action policies in higher education, focusing on efficiency issues. When the distribution of applicants' traits is fixed (i.e., in the short-run) color blindness leads colleges to shift weight from academic traits that pre…

• TOLGA YURET

Britain saw, between 2004 and 2014, a large number of movers arriving from the new member states of the European Union in Eastern Europe. Polish movers, being the largest national group, received much attention from academia, media and the wider public. Nevertheless, the movers from smaller nations, the Czech Republic…

• MUSTAFA MURAT YÜCEŞAHİN

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• JUSTIN MARCUS

The author gives a brief review of traditional customs of name-giving in Turkey and analyses some recent trends. The observations are based on 1270 Turkish names collected from the author’s students and reflecting naming practices in Turkey over last several decades. The data has been collected randomly regardless of…

ÖZET Bu çalışmada Türk toplumundaki ad verme geleneği yani kişilere ad verilirken etkilenilen faktörler üzerinde durulmaktadır. ABSTRACT In this study, the Iradition of giving name in Turkısh society and the words used as person's name in our society were studied on.

Despite the ongoing shift in societal norms and gender-discriminatory practices toward more equality, many heterosexual women worldwide, including in many Western societies, choose to replace their birth surname with the family name of their spouse upon marriage. Previous research has demonstrated that the adherence t…

• NEVİN SOLAK ŞAHİN

Although honor killing is widely associated with Muslim communities, it can also be observed in other religious and cultural communities in the UK and elsewhere. As the author shall demonstrate in this paper, whether Muslim or not in communities where honour killings tend to occur, certain sociological structures and…

• RECEP DOĞAN

From primitive societies to modern societies, human has given names to their children, each other, animals and objects around him. While doing this, they are affected by several elements. The purpose of this study is to analyze, through which name giving criteria people make their name choice for their children. It’s…

• BETÜL YALÇINKAYA AKÇİT

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• TOLGA YURET

Son dönemlerde kimlik kavramı sosyal ve davranışsal bilimlerde önemli bir konu olmaya başladı. Psikyatri, psikoloji, siyaset bilimi, sosyoloji ve iktisata gibi disiplenler tarafında kullanılmaktadır. Bu kavram sosyal bir bağlam içindeki roller ve ait olunan gruplar içindeki bireyleri anlamamızı zenginleştirmektedir. B…