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Demokrasinin Gündelik Kavramsallaştırması: Keşifsel Bir İnceleme

Year 2023, Issue: 22, 1 - 19, 24.05.2023
https://doi.org/10.26650/4boyut.2023.1257609

Abstract

Gündelik kavramsallaştırmalar sıradan insanların bazı konularda uzmanların akademik yaklaşımlarından farklı olarak kendilerine özgü anlayışlarını içermekte olup; karmaşık yapıdaki kavramlarla ilgili daha iyi bir anlayış için incelenmesi önem taşımaktadır. Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de yaşayan ve farklı demografik özelliklere sahip bireylerden oluşturan katılımcı grubunun demokrasiyi nasıl kavramsallaştırdığını ve bu kavramsallaştırmalardaki benzerlik ve farklılıkları nitel bir yöntemle keşifsel olarak incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla yaşları 18-48 arasında değişen (Ort.= 30.27, SS= 6.59), 10’u kadın ve 20’si erkek olmak üzere toplam 30 kişiyle yarı yapılandırılmış derinlemesine görüşmeler yürütülmüştür. Katılımcılara “Demokrasi deyince aklınıza ne geliyor?, Size göre demokrasi ne demektir?” şeklindeki açık uçlu sorular yöneltilmiş ve cevaplar tematik analiz açık kodlama yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Analizler sonucunda elde edilen veriler şu temalar altında toplanmıştır: ‘Liberal değerlerle tanımlanan demokrasi’, ‘yönetim süreçleriyle tanımlanan demokrasi’, ‘kurumsal yapılarla tanımlanan demokrasi’, ‘sosyal-ekonomik faydaları açısından tanımlanan demokrasi’, ‘batıya özgü bir sistem olarak tanımlanan demokrasi’, ‘eleştirilen bir sistem olarak demokrasi’. Elde edilen bu temalara göre demokrasi farklı ve çeşitli boyutlar üzerinden tanımlanmaktadır. Kurumlar ve prosedürler ile özgürlük ve haklar gibi Batıya özgü liberal tanımların yanı sıra sosyal ve ekonomik faydalar gibi demokrasinin sonuçları üzerinden yapılan tanımlar da ortaya çıkmıştır. Aynı zamanda, alan yazındaki çoğu çalışmadan farklı olarak, olumlu-olumsuz ve nötr değerlendirmeleri içeren demokrasi eleştirileriyle yapılan tanımlar da elde edilmiştir. Bu çalışmanın sınırlılıklarından biri verilerin az sayıda soruyla elde edilmiş olmasıdır. Bundan sonraki çalışmalarda demokrasinin farklı boyutlarını içeren daha fazla soruyla görüşmeler yürütülmesi demokrasi kavramsallaştırmasına dair daha kapsamlı bir anlayış için faydalı olacaktır.

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The Naturalistic Conceptualizations of Democracy: An Exploratory Investigation

Year 2023, Issue: 22, 1 - 19, 24.05.2023
https://doi.org/10.26650/4boyut.2023.1257609

Abstract

Naturalistic conceptualizations involve lay people’s own understanding about a subject and differ from experts’ academic approaches. Examining these conceptualizations is important for being able to better understand complex concepts. This study uses a qualitative method with the aim of exploratively examining how a participant group consisting of individuals with different demographic characteristics living in Türkiye conceptualize democracy, as well as the similarities and differences in their conceptualizations. The study conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews for this purpose with a total of 30 people between 18-48 years of age (M = 30.27, SD = 6.59; 10 females, 20 males). The interviews asked the participants what comes to mind when they say democracy and what democracy means to them as open-ended questions and analyzed the answers using thematic analyses alongside the open coding method. As a result of the analyses, the data were gathered under the following themes: democracy defined by liberal values, democracy defined by government processes, democracy defined by institutional structures, democracy defined in terms of social-economic benefits, democracy defined as a Western system, and democracy as a criticized system. According to these themes, the participants defined democracy through different various dimensions, with a Western liberal meaning emerging involving institutions, procedures, freedoms, and rights, as well as definitions based on the consequences of democracy, such as social and economic benefits. Unlike most studies in the literature, definitions were at the same time observed to have been made that criticized democracy and included positive, negative, and neutral evaluations. One of the limitations of this study is that the data were obtained from a small number of questions. Having future studies conduct interviews with more questions that involve different dimensions of democracy will be beneficial for a more comprehensive understanding of naturalistic conceptualizations of democracy.

References

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  • Aktaş, M. (2015). Demokrasi kavramına eleştirel bir bakış. Anemon Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 5(1), 87-105. D0I:10.18506/anemon.92965 google scholar
  • Alacapınar, F. G. (2020). Üniversite öğrencilerinin demokrasi konusundaki değerleri. Pearson Journal, 5(5), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.46872/pj.26 google scholar
  • Andersen, R. H., Schulze, J. L. ve Seppel, K. (2018). Pinning down democracy: A Q-method study of lived democracy. Polity, 50(1), 4-42. D0I:10.1086/695417 google scholar
  • Baviskar, S. ve Malone, M. F. T. (2004). What democracy means to citizens- and why it matters. Revista Europea de EstudiosLatinoamericanosy del Caribe, 76, 3-23. http://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.9682 google scholar
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  • Bratton, M. ve Mattes, R. (2001a). Support for democracy in Africa: Intrinsic or instrumental. British Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 447-474. D0I:10.1017/S0007123401000175 google scholar
  • Bratton, M. ve Mattes, R. B. (2001b). How people view democracy: Africans’ surprising universalism. Journal of Democracy, 12, 107-121. google scholar
  • Braun, V. ve Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 77-101. D0I:10.1191/1478088706qp063oa google scholar
  • Canache, D. (2012). Citizens’ conceptualizations of democracy: Structural complexity, substantive content, and political significance. Comparative Political Studies, 45(9), 1132-1158. https://doi. org/10.1177/0010414011434009 google scholar
  • Canache, D., Mondak, J. J. ve Seligson, M. A. (2001). Meaning and measurement in cross-national research on satisfaction with democracy. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65(4), 506-528. https://doi. org/10.1086/323576 google scholar
  • Cho, Y. (2012). How well ordinary citizens understand democracy: The case of South Korean electorate. Democratization, 21(2), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2012.734808 google scholar
  • Çokluk, Ö., Yılmaz, K. ve Oğuz, E. (2011). Nitel bir görüşme yöntemi: Odak grup görüşmesi. Kuramsal Eğitimbilim, 4(1), 95-107. google scholar
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  • Dalton, R. J., Shin, D. C. ve Jou, W. (2007). Understanding democracy: Data from unlikely places. Journal of Democracy, 18(4), 142-156. google scholar
  • Dixon, J. C. (2008). A clash of civilizations? Examining liberal-democratic values in Turkey and the European Union 1. The British Journal of Sociology, 59(4), 681-708. google scholar
  • Fuchs, D. ve Roller, E. 2006. “Learned democracy? Support for democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.” International Journal of Sociology, 36(3), 70-96 google scholar
  • Gagnon, J. P. (2018). 2,234 descriptions of democracy: An update to democracy’s ontological pluralism. Democratic Theory, 5(1), 92-113. D0I:10.3167/dt.2018.050107 google scholar
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  • Işık, E. ve Semerci, Ç. (2019). Eğitim alanı nitel araştırmalarında veri üçgenlemesi olarak odak grup görüşmesi, bireysel görüşme ve gözlem. Turkish Journal of Educational Studies, 6(3), 53-66. google scholar
  • Karl, T. L. (1990). Dilemmas of democratization in Latin America. Comparative Politics, 23(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.2307/422302 google scholar
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  • Rose, R., Mishler, W. ve Haerpfer, C. (1998) Democracy and its Alternatives: Understanding PostCommunist Societies. Oxford & London: John Baltimore Press. google scholar
  • Schedler, A. ve Sarsfield, R. (2007). Democrats with adjectives: Linking direct and indirect measures of democratic support. European Journal of Political Research, 46(5), 637-659. https://doi.org/10.1111/ j.1475-6765.2007.00708.x google scholar
  • Schumpeter, J. (1943). Capitalism, socialism, and democracy. London: George Allen and Unwin. google scholar
  • Sternberg, R. J., Conway, B. E., Ketron, J. L. ve Bernstein, M. (1981). People’s conceptions of intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41(1), 37- 55. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.41.1.37 google scholar
  • Şahin, O. (2016). Perceptions of democracy in the world: Do different understandings held by the people shape political systems? (Doktora tezi). Sabancı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İstanbul. google scholar
  • Tessler, M., Jamal, A. ve Robinson, M. (2012). New findings on Arabs and Democracy. Journal of Democracy 23(4), 89-103. google scholar
  • Tilly, C. (2011). Demokrasi. (E. Arıcan, çev.) Phoenix Yayınları, Ankara. google scholar
  • Yıldırım, A., ve Şimşek, H. (2013). Sosyal bilimlerde nitel araştırma yöntemleri (10. Basım). İstanbul: Seçkin Yayıncılık. google scholar
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Psychology
Journal Section Research Articles
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Canan Çelikadam 0000-0002-1844-7033

Sevim Cesur 0000-0002-4038-0592

Publication Date May 24, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Issue: 22

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APA Çelikadam, C., & Cesur, S. (2023). Demokrasinin Gündelik Kavramsallaştırması: Keşifsel Bir İnceleme. 4. BOYUT Medya Ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Dergisi(22), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.26650/4boyut.2023.1257609