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  • Historical determinants of state capacity 
    Çineli, İpek Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    High state capacity is associated with a specific type of state: modern fiscal and bureaucratic state. This study argues that modern fiscal state first emerged in Europe, and later diffused around the world. Early statehood ...
  • Historical perspective in the sciences 
    Karagözoğlu, Senem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The present thesis aims to demonstrate that the distinction between historical and scientific disciplines is indefensible, because a historical perspective is necessary for a scientific understanding of the universe. To ...
  • Historical writing in the late Ottoman Empire: Global encounters and historical experiments of Hayrullah Efendi 
    Veyselgil, Can. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This dissertation, drawing on a narrative analysis of a mid-nineteenth century Ottoman historical work written by Hayrullah Efendi (1817-1866), attempts at broadening our perspectives on late Ottoman historical writing. ...
  • Historicising the novel :|Madonna in a Fur Coat as a literary event 
    İnce, Meryem Selva. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Madonna in a Fur Coat novel is an exceptional literary event. It is accepted as a literary document and gained an aesthetic value by getting popular in time through the appreciation of ordinary readers, even though it ...
  • Historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature: Foe, Wide Sargasso Sea and Midnight's Children 
    Turan, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This M.A. thesis aims to scrutinize the use of historiographic metafiction in postcolonial literature. The imaginative (re)construction of the past provides the opportunity to tell alternate stories/histories which place ...
  • History of identification in the Ottoman lands: From the security of the person to the security of the state: Implementation of Mürur Tezkeresi in the nineteenth century 
    Samastı, Fatmanur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The subject of this study is the analysis of the implementations about the control of mobility within the Ottoman lands with regard to the discussions and theories about state formation and similar practices in the world ...
  • HIV/AIDS in American theatre :|queerness, spatio-temporalities, and emancipation 
    Duman, Çağdaş Özerk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines American HIV/AIDS theater in the context of time and space. Drawing mainly from queer approaches to time and space, it explores the plays of Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (1990), Cheryl L. West’s ...
  • Hobbes and Machiavelli; a comparison in their methods and philosophy 
    Glazer, Mark. (Thesis (B.A.) - Robert College, 1958., 1958.)
  • Home context and the development of pre-literacy skills in the child 
    Kuşcul, Hilal Özuygun. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Socials Sciences, 1993., 1993.)
    The present study was conducted to investigate the prevailing literacy characteristics of Turkish middle and working class homes and to identify the literacy activities that contribute to the acquisition of pre-literacy ...
  • Homelessness at the dining table :|needs-talk in the Hayata Sarıl Restaurant 
    Dursunoğlu, Şeyma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis is based on a year of ethnographic research in the Hayata Sarıl Restaurant which is a soup kitchen serving free food for the homeless in Istanbul. It scrutinizes how, from what perspective, and for what aim the ...
  • Homogenizing a nation: |Turkish national identity and migration-settlement policies of the Turkish Republic (1923-1939) 
    Ülker, Erol. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This study basically aims to analyse the processes of nationalisation and the construction of national identity in Turkey from a historical perspective. One of the main components of the formation of nation-states is ...
  • Hopes of secularization in the Ottoman Empire: the Armenian national constitution and the Armenian newspaper, Masis, 1856-1863 
    Beşiryan, Aylin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis deals with the proclamation of a new statute law in 1863 for the internal administration of the Ottoman Armenian community. The discussion over the statute going back to the years of the Crimean War (1853-1856), ...
  • Horizontal coordination and transparency of information 
    Topbaş, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Rational agents might choose to invest in a certain kind of capital in a period in the hope of making higher returns from their investments made in consecutive periods. We examine the impact of such an interaction on the ...
  • Household indebtedness and financial literacy in Turkey 
    Daşdöğen, Sezgin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis aims to understand which factors affect households’ decision to enter the credit market and the amount of debt they obtain, using data from the Credit Card Consumer Survey conducted in 2009 on 2576 credit card ...
  • Housing finance in high and uncertain inflationary environments: |(a Turkish case) 
    Gürgün, Merter. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici university. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    Today, one of the main problems of the countries facing high and volatile inflation is not to manage to establish the model for housing finance. The implementations of classical housing finance systems applied in the ...
  • How does a hidden curriculum operate: a case study of routine practices and rules in a fourth-grade classroom 
    Şahin, Sebahat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The purpose of this study was to examine in detail how the hidden curriculum in a public primary school classroom operated through the routine practices and rules that characterize daily classroom experiences. The study ...
  • How perceived group status affects negativity bias in collective future thinking 
    Hacıbektaşoğlu, Doruk Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    People expect their social groups’ future to be mainly negative. In our group’s previous research, we found that ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voters expected Turkey’s future to be less negative than main-opponent ...
  • How popular is privatization? public attitudes towards privatization in Turkey 
    Altınöz, Meryem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Privatization became a global phenomenon in the 1980s, and as one of the main pillars of structural adjustment programs it was promoted by international institutions, namely the International Monetary Fund and the World ...
  • How the world changes dystopias :|an ecocritical study of evolving climate fiction novels 
    Erer, Eda Begüm. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    There is a deep lack of attention to the discussions of climate change, both in general and in literature. The scientific data suggests that we are at a point of no return when with global warming and we will face great ...
  • How to provide a consistent account of akrasia 
    Geyik, Sefa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to provide o consistent solution for the philosophical problem of akrasia. Akrasia, a Greek word, is translated into English as “lacking command over oneself” or “weakness of will”. The question ...

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