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Item Open Access Cultural prototypes and dimensions of honor(Sage, 2014-02) Cross, S. E.; Uskul, A. K.; Gerçek-Swing, B.; Sunbay, Z.; Alözkan, C.; Günsoy, C.; Ataca, B.; Karakitapoğlu-Aygün, Z.Research evidence and theoretical accounts of honor point to differing definitions of the construct in differing cultural contexts. The current studies address the question “What is honor?” using a prototype approach in Turkey and the Northern United States. Studies 1a/1b revealed substantial differences in the specific features generated by members of the two groups, but Studies 2 and 3 revealed cultural similarities in the underlying dimensions of self-respect, moral behavior, and social status/respect. Ratings of the centrality and personal importance of these factors were similar across the two groups, but their association with other relevant constructs differed. The tripartite nature of honor uncovered in these studies helps observers and researchers alike understand how diverse responses to situations can be attributed to honor. Inclusion of a prototype analysis into the literature on honor cultures can provide enhanced coverage of the concept that may lead to testable hypotheses and new theoretical developments.Item Open Access Determinants of choosing withdrawal over modern contraceptive methods in Turkey(Taylor & Francis, 2008) Cindoglu, D.; Sirkeci, I.; Sirkeci, R. F.Objectives The determinants of the use of withdrawal in Turkey are examined using a multinomial logistic model. Methods Data were drawn from a nation-wide population-based cross-sectional study, the Turkish Demographic Health Surveys that took place in 1998 and 2003. Detailed interviews were conducted with 8576 women aged 15-49 and analysed using SPSS. Results Contextual, cultural and demographic characteristics define women's choice of withdrawal over modern methods. Socio-economic status, education, employment status, and past fertility behaviour are among key determinants. First-ever used contraception method has a very strong impact on later choices. Urban women, the more educated, those with better socioeconomic status, and those living in less crowded households resort less to withdrawal. Experience and empowerment positively linked to modern contraceptive use among women in Turkey. Conclusions The use of contraceptive methods in Turkey differs greatly. Empowerment of women in terms of better socioeconomic status, better education, modern and liberal attitudes towards women and family planning seem to reduce withdrawal use as the main method of contraception. The results suggest the need for education (particularly targeting young women and couples), information and provision of modern contraceptive services particularly for disadvantaged groups.Item Open Access Essays on status seeking, bequests and inequality(Bilkent University, 2019-09) Harmankaya, Mehmet FatihSocial status is the motivating force that governs the behavior of individuals. The tendency to desire higher social status affects household decision making activities. The quest for social status is mostly associated with reference dependent preferences related to economic decisions. This dissertation is made up of three essays on reference dependent preferences related to bequests and inequality. In this scope, this study presents a theoretic framework to analyze the effects of reference dependent preferences on the economy. Thefirst essay analyzes the effects of status quest on bequest distribution and household inequality. Focusing on the relative wealth dimension of social status, we develop a two-period overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents. It is found that, the quest for social status modi es lifetime decisions and as a consequence, the trajectory of the overall economy. We show that, the bequest motive and the concern for social status not only increase the stationary level of capital, but also enhance the household equality. In the second essay, the implications of assuming different production function for thefinal good is studied in an overlapping generations economy model. In this analysis, social status is identi ed with relative transmissible wealth or bequest. In the long run, the social status concern increase the stationary level of capital. Moreover, inequality in a segregated economy made up of two groups which notably differ in their social status referent, is analyzed. It is shown numerically that, even when the only transmissible factor is wealth, group inequality persists in time. It is found that inequality can decrease in the long-term as long as the poorer group refers the richer group strongly enough. In the third essay, we analyze the role of consumption envy on the resource distribution and household inequality. To do this, a non-overlapping generations renewable resource model is developed. Long run dynamics of the total renewable resource in the economy are analyzed, considering both linear and concave production functions. For the case of linear production function, the fraction of resources devoted to consumption is shown to increase with consumption envy. Thus, steady state level of the available resource in the economy decreases with the effect of consumption envy. Moreover, consumption envy is proven to increase the inequality between households in terms of wealth, consumption and renewable resources.Item Open Access Füruzan'ın öykülerinde anne-kız ilişkisi(Bilkent University, 2007) Şafak, BurcuWhen examined in a wide perspective, one of the prominent novelists of the contemporary Turkish literature, Füruzan (born 1932) usually used child characters –especially girls- in her novels and stories as the narrator and woman characters are plotted with similar characteristics between them. Whether she is a girl or an adult woman, the narrator’s relation with her mother is important in all twenty stories in the books Parasız Yatılı, Kuşatma, Benim Sinemalarım, Gül Mevsimidir, Gecenin Öteki Yüzü and Sevda Dolu Bir Yaz, whicle this thesis focuses. In these stories, the child or the mother come out with the emotion of deprivation in hard economical situations. In this thesis, mother - daughter relationship, desire to reach a better social status and simulacrums used to tell that, deprivation, function of the man in woman’s life will be examined in Füruzan’s stories and the dynamic which these subjects are plotted around will be illustrated. If the story characters are examined in the socialist feminism theory context, woman characters experience autonomous identity decision problems and the decision processes are sculpted by emotion of deprivation and characteristics of mother - daughter relations are affected by this emotion also.Item Open Access Social status pursuit, distribution of bequests and inequality(Elsevier, 2020) Camacho, C.; Harmankaya, Fatih; Sağlam, ÇağrıThe quest for social status modifies lifetime decisions and as a consequence, the trajectory of the overall economy. Focusing on the relative wealth dimension of social status, we build a two-period overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents to investigate the effects of status quest on the evolution of bequest distribution and household inequality. We show that the bequest motive and the concern for social status not only increase the stationary level of capital but also enhance the household equality.