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PUBLISHER: AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY - INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Social Sciences

Publication Model: Periodical Publication (March - June - September - December)
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Journal Boards

Owner on behalf of Afyon Kocatepe University

Mehmet Karakaş
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karakaş
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi
Sociology of Culture, Sociology, Urban Sociology and Community Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movement

Editor in Chief

Muhammed Salim Danış
Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammed Salim Danış
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ
Sociology, Change, Underdevelopment and Modernisation Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Media Studies

Editors

Hacı İbrahim Delice
Prof. Dr. Hacı İbrahim Delice
Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Science and Letters,, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Afyon, Türkiye
Language Studies, Linguistics, Linguistic Structures (Incl. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax), New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye)

Editorial Board

AB
Political Theory and Political Philosophy, Political Sociology
Elbeyi Pelit
Prof. Dr. Elbeyi Pelit
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TURİZM FAKÜLTESİ
Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour, Tourist Guidance, Human Resources Management, Tourism Management, Hospitality Management, Tourism Planning, Tourism
Gürbüz Ocak
Prof. Dr. Gürbüz Ocak
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Eğitim bil. Böl.
Curriculum Development in Education, Education, Program Design, Curriculum Evaluation in Education

Eğitim Bilimleri Eğitim Programları ve Öğretim

Ölçek geliştirme, öğretmen yetiştirme, öğretim yöntemleri, 

Hacı İbrahim Delice
Prof. Dr. Hacı İbrahim Delice
Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Science and Letters,, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Afyon, Türkiye
Language Studies, Linguistics, Linguistic Structures (Incl. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax), New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye)
Mehmet Karakaş
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karakaş
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi
Sociology of Culture, Sociology, Urban Sociology and Community Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movement
MF
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Fişne
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
European Union-Turkiye Relations, European and Region Studies, International Foundation
EG
Prof. Dr. Evren Güçer
Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Turizm fakültesi
Tourism Marketing, Recreation Management, Tourism
Ayhan Ural
Dr. Ayhan Ural
Gazi Üniversitesi Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi
Education Management, Education Policy
Koray Kasapoğlu
Prof. Dr. Koray Kasapoğlu
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Curriculum Development in Education, Curriculum Evaluation in Education, Program Design

Koray Kasapoğlu graduated from the Department of Primary School Teaching at the Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University in 2008. Between 2008 and 2014, he completed his master's and doctoral studies in Curriculum and Instruction at Middle East Technical University. He received his associate professorship in 2020. From 2009 to 2015, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Primary School Teaching at the Faculty of Education, Afyon Kocatepe University. Since 2015, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the same institution. Between 2021 and 2024, he served as Deputy Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Afyon Kocatepe University. His administrative roles include being the Bologna Coordinator, Assistant Quality Coordinator, and a member of the Quality, Education and Training, and Scientific Research Projects Commissions. He is also a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Turkish Association of Curriculum and Instruction (TACI), which are both related to his field of study. Between 2021 and 2024, Kasapoğlu served as editor of the Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Social Sciences, as co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry in Education: Theory and Practice, and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on topics such as an introduction to educational sciences, teaching principles and methods, measurement and assesment, curriculum development and evaluation, instructional models, philosophies of curricula, introduction to qualitative research in education, and needs analysis in curriculum development. Kasapoğlu has published work at a national and international level in the fundamental field of educational sciences. He has held various roles as project leader, researcher/expert, and trainer in BAP and TUBITAK-supported projects. His research areas include teacher education and training, curricula (including curriculum changes, perceptions of curricula, and curriculum literacy), teaching beliefs, constructivism, learning strategies and approaches, interdisciplinary curricula (including STEM, STEAM, and E-STEM), and artificial intelligence.

Mürsel Bayram
Prof. Dr. Mürsel Bayram
ANKARA SOSYAL BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ
African Political History, African Studies

Mürsel Bayram received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Selçuk University, Ahi Evran University and Kırıkkale University respectively. He is currently the Head of the Department of African Studies at the Institute for Area Studies, Social Sciences University of Ankara. He is the author of Une histoire diplomatique des États ouest-africains and Çin-Afrika İş Birliği (China-Africa Cooperation). Bayram is also the editor of the books titled Mağrib Diplomasisi (Maghreb Diplomacy) Afrika Yıllığı 2021 (Africa Yearbook 2021), Afrika Yıllığı 2022 (Africa Yearbook 2022), Afrika’da Politika ve Uluslararası İlişkiler (African Politics and International Relations) and Doğu Afrika’da Siyaset ve Diplomasi (Politics and Diplomacy in East Africa).

SK
Prof. Dr. Selim Kaya
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Medieval Folk Culture, Political and Civilization History of Islam, History of Seljuk, History of Muslim Turkish Countries and Societies, Turkish and Islamic Intellectual History
Muhammed Salim Danış
Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammed Salim Danış
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ
Sociology, Change, Underdevelopment and Modernisation Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Media Studies
Mario Bara
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mario Bara
Catholic University of Croatia
Migration Sociology, Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism

Associate Professor Mario Bara, PhD
Mario Bara obtained his degree in a double major program in Sociology and History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 2007. He earned his doctoral degree in the field of Social Sciences, specializing in Sociology, from the same university in 2014. From 2008 to 2015, he was employed at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb. Since 2014, he has been engaged as an external associate, and since 2015, he has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb.
He has participated as a researcher in several projects, including the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (MZOŠ) project “The Impact of Migration on the Regional Development of Croatia” (2008–2013), the Croatian Science Foundation project “Second Homes and the Social Sustainability of Local Communities in Croatia” (2014–2017), and the Croatian Science Foundation project “Modernization of Urban Life in Croatia through the Development of Communal Infrastructure in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (IP-2016-06-2015) (2017–2021). In 2019, he collaborated on the project “Young Return Migrants: Experiences and Motivation” at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, and in the same year, he participated in the Catholic University of Croatia project “Analysis of the Causes, Motives, and Characteristics of the Emigration of Croatian Families to Germany.”
From 2021 to 2022, he contributed to the “Faith and Freedom” project funded by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He was the principal investigator of the project “Lessons from the Past: Conflicts, Recovery, and Resilience – A Case Study from Croatia” (2023–2024), also supported by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He is currently a researcher on the project “DinamiRH – Dynamics and Challenges of Migration, Re-Migration, and Immigration in the Republic of Croatia” at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia. 
A selection of his bibliography is available at: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/27567

Alan Editörleri

Gülşah Yılmaz
Dr. Gülşah Yılmaz
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Modern Turkic Languages and Literatures, North-West (Kipczak) Turkic Dialects and Literatures, Turkish Folklore Outside Türkiye
GN
Assoc. Prof. Gönül Erdem Nas
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi
Linguistic Structures (Incl. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax), Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Phonetics and Speech Science, New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye), Language Sociology, Linguistics

Geography Field Editors

Mehmet Ali Özdemir
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Özdemir
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (Other), Türkiye Physical Geography, Physical Geography, Soil Geography

Karaismailler Köyü İlkokulu’ndan 1975, Denizli Cumhuriyet Lisesi’nden 1981’de mezun oldum. 1985 yılında, Ankara Üniversitesi/Dil Ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi/Coğrafya Bölümü/Fiziki Coğrafya ve Jeoloji lisans programından mezun oldum. Yüksek Lisansı Fırat Üniversitesi/Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü/Fiziki Coğrafya bilim alanında “Kovancılar Ovası ve yakın çevresinin genel ve uygulamalı jeomorfolojisi (1990)” konusunda yaptım. Doktora eğitimimi Fırat Üniversitesi/Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü/Fiziki Coğrafya bilim alanında “Örmeli (Şiro) Çayı havzasının genel ve uygulamalı jeomorfolojisi (1994)” konusunda tamamladım. Fırat Üniversitesi’nde 1987-1994 yılları arasında araştırma görevlisi, 1995-2000 yardımcı doçent, 2000-2002’de doçent, Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi’nde 2002-2006 doçent, 2006’dan itibaren profesör olarak çalışıyorum. Fiziki coğrafya, özellikle jeomorfoloji, tektonik, klimatoloji, arazi kullanımı ve jeomiras konularında çalışıyorum.

Mustafa Köse
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Köse
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY
Population Trends and Policies, Population Geography, City in Human Geography

Language and Literature Field Editors

Prof. Dr. Nadejda Özakdağ
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY
Lexicography and Semantics, New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye), South-West (Oghuz) Turkic Dialects and Literatures
AG
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alper Günaydın
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi
Classical Turkish Literature of Ottoman Field, Turkish Language and Literature, Sufism, Turkish Islamic Literature, Classical Turkish Literature, Classical Turkish Literature Out of Ottoman Field
TT
Asst. Prof. Dr. Taner Tunç
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Modern Turkish Literature in Turkiye Field

Philosophy Field Editors

MK
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kaya
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Philosophy of Society, Philosophy in Turkiye, Modern Philosophy, 17th Century Philosophy

He was born in Samsun in 1976. He completed his primary and secondary education in the Çarşamba district of Samsun. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Ege University in 2003, and in 2014 he completed his PhD at the Institute of Social Sciences of Ege University, in the Department of Systematic Philosophy and Logic, with a dissertation entitled The Problem of Evil in Leibniz’s Théodicée. In 2019, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor of Philosophy and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Afyon Kocatepe University.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Ünal
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Turkish Islamic Philosophy, Metaphysics , 20th Century Philosophy

Public Relations-Communication Field Editors

Tolga Gürocak
Asst. Prof. Dr. Tolga Gürocak
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, GÜZEL SANATLAR FAKÜLTESİ
Cinema-Tv Production and Management, Movie Review, Digital and Electronic Media Art, Filmmaking and Directing, Photography, Cinema Theories, Photography, Video and Lens-Based Practice, Cinema and Aesthetics, Cinema Sociology, Video Art, Television Programming, Video Design, Documentary Film - Political Cinema

Political Science and International Relations Field Editors

Volkan Göçoğlu
Prof. Dr. Volkan Göçoğlu
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Local Administrations , Public Policy, Public Administration

Psychology Field Editors

TK
Asst. Prof. Dr. Temel Alper Karslı
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY
Cognitive and Computational Psychology (Other)
Aylin Saltürk
Asst. Prof. Dr. Aylin Saltürk
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology

Aylin SALTÜRK (R.A., Ph.D.) has two degrees, English Language Teaching and Psychology, moreover has MSc and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Her research interest is mainly focused on perfectionism, procrastination, motivation in education and test anxiety.

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Art-Design Field Editors

Gamze Çoban
Asst. Prof. Dr. Gamze Çoban
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Built Environment and Design, Interior Architecture , Architectural Heritage and Conservation, Universal and Unobstructed Design

Gamze Çoban completed her undergraduate education in 2013 at the Department of Architecture at Yaşar University; she completed her master's (2019) and doctoral (2024) education at the Department of Architecture at Gazi University. She began her academic career in 2017 as a Research Assistant at the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Afyon Kocatepe University; she was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in 2024. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Afyon Kocatepe University, and holds the position of Erasmus Coordinator for the department. Çoban has published articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed in various databases and presented papers at international scientific conferences in the fields of interior design, design education, architectural heritage and conservation, and universal and barrier-free design.

Sociology Field Editors

Fethi Nas
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fethi Nas
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY
Rural Sociology, Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Migration Sociology, Sociology, International Migration, Middle East Studies
Osman Metin
Assoc. Prof. Osman Metin
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology, Communication Sociology, Sociological Methodology and Research Methods, Social Media Studies, Qualitative Methods in Sociology
SA
Asst. Prof. Dr. Songül Alkan Aykaç
AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY
Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Migration Sociology, Qualitative Methods in Sociology
İsa Abidoğlu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsa Abidoğlu
ANADOLU ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Modernization Sociology, Change, Underdevelopment and Modernisation Sociology, Sociology of Religion

History Field Editors

Gürsoy Şahin
Prof. Dr. Gürsoy Şahin
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, TARİH BÖLÜMÜ
Late Modern Balkan History, Late Modern Discoveries and Colonialism History, Late Modern Ottoman History

Yakınçağ Osmanlı tarihi ve Avrupa tarihi alanında çalışmalar yapmaktadır.

SK
Prof. Dr. Selim Kaya
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Medieval Folk Culture, Political and Civilization History of Islam, History of Seljuk, History of Muslim Turkish Countries and Societies, Turkish and Islamic Intellectual History
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatih Özaslan
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Late Modern Renewal History, History of Ottoman Education, Late Modern Military History, Late Modern Press History, Late Modern Ottoman History

Social Services

Musa Gürel
Asst. Prof. Dr. Musa Gürel
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Social Work (Other), Disabled Groups, Youth Sociology , Subtance Abuse, Aged Health Care

English Language Editor

Res. Assist. Serkan Çelik
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Sociology, Urban Sociology and Community Studies

Turkish Language Editor

HE
Res. Assist. Hacı Osman Ekinci
AFYON KOCATEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
New Turkish Language (Turkish of Old Anatolia, Ottoman, Turkiye)
Last Update Time: 23 July 2026