Research Article

The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Number: 59 July 3, 2019
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The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Abstract

There is a distinction between the literary forms of research-oriented scientific practice and those of scientific education, popularized in the early decades of the 20th century. This distinction emphasizes differences between “journal science”, whose audiences are mostly specialists, and “popular science” or “textbook science”, written for non-specialist public or students. In the early 2000’s, the term “two sociologies” was coined by Hamilton and Form to mark a similar differentiation in sociology. However, the disciplinary attention to this distinction and its problems can be traced back to the 1920s, and with the help of the existing research on sociology textbooks, some important solutions has been produced in Western academies. By stressing the difference between “two sociologies”, this research presents the findings of a quantitative content analysis on Turkish introductory sociology textbooks for higher education. The main objective of the study is to satisfy the need for such researches in Turkey and to describe the problems of the texts. The study results strengthen the argument that there is a link between standardization issues in the discipline and the textbook problems.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Sociology

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Tuğça Poyraz Tacoğlu This is me

Publication Date

July 3, 2019

Submission Date

November 29, 2018

Acceptance Date

February 28, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Number: 59

APA
Kaynak, H., & Poyraz Tacoğlu, T. (2019). The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 59, 79-98. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2018-0015
AMA
1.Kaynak H, Poyraz Tacoğlu T. The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019;(59):79-98. doi:10.26650/JECS2018-0015
Chicago
Kaynak, Hicabi, and Tuğça Poyraz Tacoğlu. 2019. “The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, nos. 59: 79-98. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2018-0015.
EndNote
Kaynak H, Poyraz Tacoğlu T (July 1, 2019) The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Journal of Economy Culture and Society 59 79–98.
IEEE
[1]H. Kaynak and T. Poyraz Tacoğlu, “The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks”, Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 59, pp. 79–98, July 2019, doi: 10.26650/JECS2018-0015.
ISNAD
Kaynak, Hicabi - Poyraz Tacoğlu, Tuğça. “The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 59 (July 1, 2019): 79-98. https://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2018-0015.
JAMA
1.Kaynak H, Poyraz Tacoğlu T. The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019;:79–98.
MLA
Kaynak, Hicabi, and Tuğça Poyraz Tacoğlu. “The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 59, July 2019, pp. 79-98, doi:10.26650/JECS2018-0015.
Vancouver
1.Hicabi Kaynak, Tuğça Poyraz Tacoğlu. The Second Sociology in Turkish Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of 30 Introductory Sociology Textbooks. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2019 Jul. 1;(59):79-98. doi:10.26650/JECS2018-0015