Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • Corporate governance and financial distress : global evidence, macroeconomic governance factors, and distress duration 
    Çeliktaş, Mehmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study examines the impact of corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structures on financial distress through comparative analyses of the global, developed, and emerging market samples. Additional emphasis is ...
  • Essays on growth, structural change and taxation 
    Höke, Fatma Kübra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis examines economies’ long-run dynamics with theoretical and empirical tools. It is composed of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we provide evidence for the labor share, structural change, fixed costs, and productivity ...
  • Markups, endogenous market power and misallocation in Turkey 
    Karagöz, Korcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Analyzing firms’ market power and the related aggregate misallocation is one of the intriguing subjects of the macroeconomics research frontier. However, market power and misallocation are mostly treated as exogenous ...
  • Scepticism and 'atitude' : a Wittgensteinian approach 
    Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study offers an examination of a certain kind of philosophical scepticism, e.g., scepticism about other minds, in relation to our way of knowing and understanding others. We take scepticism about other minds as an ...
  • Love, reason and transcendence : ‘Ineffable’ love and the limits of sense 
    Kurtar, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Love is one of the greatest phenomena if not the greatest. Thus, in my MA thesis, I am investigating the concept of Love in its connections to transcendence, to the divine in contrast to the limits of “sense” both as the ...
  • Meno’s paradox and the possibility of inquiry 
    Panahee, Mohammad Raziq. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Plato in his Meno puts forward a challenge against the possibility of inquiry. This challenge has two stages, at one, Meno’s questions challenge the possibility of inquiry in the case of how different kinds of knowledge ...
  • Examining Turkish preschool teachers’ knowledge and beliefs in relation to early literacy 
    Sarrafoğlu Çalışkan, Şeymanur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2022)
    This study aims to examine the knowledge and beliefs of preschool teachers working in Istanbul about early literacy in the 2022- 2023 academic year. In this study, correlational research method was used to determine preschool ...
  • Mathematics teachers' epistemological beliefs and technology acceptance in emergency remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic 
    Erol, Rumeysa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This explanatory sequential mixed-method study examined middle school mathematics teachers’ emergency remote teaching (ERT) experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of their mathematics-oriented epistemological beliefs ...
  • Turkish indefinites : scope and specificity 
    Baykuş, Ecem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Turkish indefinites in object position are expressed in two ways: one is marked with the accusative case, and the other one is non-marked. Interestingly, there is a sharp contrast between these two indefinites. Accusative ...
  • Translators' formative agency in the periodical Hawar (1932-1943) : the making of a Kurdish cultural identity 
    Çelik, Dibar. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    The present study explores the key role translations in Hawar played in the formation of a Kurdish cultural identity through analysis of translations and translators' agency, adopting the non-essentialist concept of "cultural ...
  • Queer translation of non-literary texts as activism in Turkey 
    Duraner Dikmen, Jasmin Esin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation explores the role of translation and translators in queer scholarship and activism in Turkey through analysis of the translated non-literary queer texts, terminological discussions in Kaos GL magazine ...
  • Journalistic translation in Turkey : a critical approach to the concepts of “Transediting” and “Journalator” 
    Turan, Eda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study explores the role of translation in foreign news reporting and journalistic practices from a Translation Studies perspective and aims at demonstrating to what extent the most frequently employed concepts of ...
  • The rise of multimodality : applying translation criticism to video games 
    Sönmez, Mehmet Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis explores how the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (W3WH) and its official translation alongside a fan translation into Turkish can be systematically analyzed by a translation criticism model. The study also ...
  • The educational needs of mothers of children aged 60 to 72 months: The socio-economic differences 
    Uysal, Senem Han. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This study aims to identify the educational needs of mothers of children aged 60 to 72 months. It also intended to understand if there are any differences between mothers coming from different socio-economic background, ...
  • Needs assesment in adult education in reference to Şişli-Gültepe people's education center in Istanbul 
    Çakır, Turgut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1983., 1983.)
    The purpose of this study is to assist the Şişli-Gültepe People's Center in planning its adult education activities to serve the residents of the Sisli district in Istanbul by a need assessment survey. The Şişli district ...
  • A Case study on the current state of in-service training in a public school based on teachers' and administrators' evaluation 
    Ala, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This case study examines the current state of in-service training activities in a public school based on teachers’ and administrators’ evaluation. It is a qualitative analysis addressing three categories of questions which ...
  • A comparative analysis of noticing of mathematics teachers with varying teaching experience 
    Erdik, Evrim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Teachers’ noticing refers to attending to classroom events and interpreting why those events are worth noticing. Noticing is regarded as an essential component of teaching expertise. The purpose of present study is to ...
  • Pre-service mathematics teachers TPACK development in a computer-assisted mathematics instruction course 
    Erdoğan, Nazmi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In Turkey there is a policy to integrate technology into education. Classrooms have been equipped with interactive white boards, internet networks, and tablet computers. In this process, it is essential for pre-service ...
  • An analysis of the earth science chapter in the official Turkish fifth grade science textbook revised in 2013 
    Mısır, Muhammet Emin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Earth science education aims not only improvement of scientific literacy but also teaching domain specific characters of earth science. Textbooks have important roles in earth science education. The purpose of the study ...
  • A study for profiling mathematics teachers regarding factors affecting promotion of students metacognition 
    Şeker, Vuslat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The main objective of this study was to describe mathematics teachers’ profiles on factors affecting their promotion of students’ metacognition through developing profiling tools. In the light of this aim, four factors ...