AN EXPLORATORY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR DETERMINING SPIRITUAL VALUES: EXAMPLE OF SECURITY SECTOR

Abstract

Possibly no branch of social sciences has the lack of more information than the field spiritual assessment. Spirituality is being with the ‘self’ (spirit) inside the person, and mostly even the person himself can not clarify that ‘spirit’s status, needs and desires. This research has taken a spiritual journey with the members of securit sector in order to discover the spiritual values they had and how they integrate these values with their institution. Using the interpretative phenomenology and conversing with the participants within the spiritual assessment approach that Hodge (2001a) exposed, the research has reached the consequence that the securit sector’s fundementals of spirituality has been gained by the members in their early family era, and the further spiritual values to be set over these fundementals.

Keywords

• Spirit, spirituality, spiritual values, spiritual ecogram, security sector

TİNSEL DEĞERLERİN BELİRLENMESİNE YÖNELİK KEŞFEDİCİ NİTEL BİR ARAŞTIRMA: GÜVENLİK HİZMETİ ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Sosyal Bilimlerin belki de hiçbir alanında tinsel değerlendirmede olduğu kadar bilgi açığı görülmemektedir. Tinsellik, kişinin içindeki ‘öz’ (tin) ile var olmaktadır ve çoğu zaman bu ‘tin’in durumunu, ihtiyaç ve isteklerini kişi kendisine dahi açıklayamamaktadır. Bu araştırma, güvenlik sektöründe çalışanlarının tinsel değerlerini ve bu değerleri kurumları ile nasıl bütünleştirdiklerini keşfetmek amacıyla, çalışanlarla tinsel bir seyahate çıkmaktadır. Araştırma, yorumlayıcı fenomenolojiyi kullanarak ve Hodge (2001a)’nin belirlediği tinsel değerlendirme yaklaşımı çerçevesinde katılımcılarla sohbetler yaparak, güvenlik hizmetindeki tinsellik temelinin, çalışanların erken aile döneminde edindikleri değerlerle atıldığı ve daha sonra edinilecek değerlerin bu temel üzerine kurulduğu sonucuna ulaşmıştır.

Keywords

• Tin, tinsellik, tinsel değerler, tinsel ekogram, güvenlik sektörü

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