Theses in Humanities and Social Sciences - 2011

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

History

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Cumhur Bekar	Derin Terzioğlu	A new perception of Rome, Byzantium and Constantinople in Hezarfen Huseyin’s universal history	M.A.
Mahir Kerem Çelikel	Nevra Necipoğlu	The hesychast controversy : a practice and attitude	M.A.
Sinem Erdoğan	Derin Terzioğlu	The Imperial bî‘at ceremonies in the Ottoman Empire: their formation and transformation until the eighteenth century	M.A.
Selim Güngörürler	Derin Terzioğlu	The 1736-39 War with Russia and Austria: a study in diplomacy and changing perceptions of the Ottoman Empire	M.A.
Semiha Kayaalp	Yavuz Selim Karakışla	Jewish deputies in the Ottoman parliament, (1908-1918)	M.A.
Aliye F. Mataracı	Edhem Eldem	Trading in the shadow of wars : commercial correspondence of a late-Ottoman Muslim trading house	M.A.
Merve Tabur	Derin Terzioğlu	İsmail Hakkı Bursevi and the politics of balance	M.A.

Linguistics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Gülümser Efeoğlu	Mine Nakipoğlu Demiralp	Acquisition of passives in Turkish	M.A.
Songül Gündoğdu	Balkız Öztürk - Başaran	The phrase structure of two dialects of Kurmanji Kurdish: standard dialect and Muş dialect	M.A.
Neşe Kaya	Didar Akar	Ambivalent belongings: a discourse analysis of second generation Cretan immigrants in Cunda	M.A.
Özge Sarıgül	Eser E. Taylan	Frequency effects in the production and perception of long vowels in Turkish	M.A.

Philosophy

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Işık Pelin Ataman	İlhan İnan	Do incomplete definite descriptions refute Russell’s theory of descriptions?	M.A.
Hanife Bilgili	Stephen Voss	Quine on modal logic	M.A.
Çağlan Çınar Dilek	Stephen Voss	Understanding self-consciousness	M.A.
Demet Evrenosoğlu	Yıldız Silier	Discourse of needs as a political discourse: a critical reconstruction of ‘Radical Needs'	Ph.D
Melsen Tunca İşeri	Stephen Voss	Unveiling Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the categories	M.A.
Beril Sözmen	Karanfil Soyhun	The moral self. An exploratory study of moral agency and conceptions of self	Ph.D
Caner Turan	Chryssi Sidiropoulou	Is later Wittgenstein a relativist?: an investigation on / through forms of life	M.A.
Safiye Yiğit	İlhan İnan	Curiosity as an intellectual and ethical virtue	M.A.

Psychology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Melisa Akan	Ali İ. Tekcan	The organization of memory for autobiographical and public events across different social identities	M.A.
Aslı Aktan Erciyes	Feyza Çorapçı	Effects of second language exposure in the preschool context on first language skills and executive functions of 4 and 5 year olds	M.A.
Eren Günseli	Ayşecan Boduroğlu	The role of attention on maintaining visual representations of features and bindings	M.A.
Ceren Günsoy	Bilge Ataca	Linguistic gender bias as a result of uncertainty: the moderating roles of group identification and sociostructural variables	M.A.
Sibel Kançal	Adil Sarıbay	Effects of negative feedback focus and moral emotion proneness on self-efficacy beliefs, performance outcomes, and predictions	M.A.
Gönenç Kara	Ali İ. Tekcan	Autobiographical memory transmission with phenomenological change over time	M.A.
Begüm Özdemir	İ. Ercan Alp	The relationships among working memory, inhibition and temperament in the third year of life	M.A.

Sociology

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı	Ceren Özselçuk	Rethinking 'flexible' capitalism: exploring the formation of 'flexible' capitalism in Turkey through the case of the shipyards of Tuzla	M.A.
Sidar Bayram	Nükhet Sirman	Another story of the daily circulation of Özgür Gündem : affective materiality	M.A.
Deniz Duruiz	Nükhet Sirman	Seasonal agricultural workers in Manisa: materialization of labor, bodies and places through everyday encounters	M.A.
Kutlu Asena Kayhan	Zafer Yenal	Turkish nationalism and Turkish identity in Turkish historical adventure films of the 1960s and the 1970s	M.A.
Ceren Kenar	Çağlar Keyder	Bargaining between Islam and Kemalism: an investigation of official Islam through Friday sermons	M.A.
Nilüfer Taşkın	Meltem Ahıska	Representing and performing Laz identity ''this is not a rebel song!''	M.A.
Ayşegül Toksöz	Biray Kolluoğlu	The regulation of abortion in contemporary Turkey : laws, policies, discourses	M.A.
Öykü Tümer	Nükhet Sirman	An analysis of discourses and policies on violence against women in Turkey	M.A.

Translation and Interpreting Studies 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Elif Aka	Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar	A critical study on Pınar Kür as author-translator: authorial and translatorial styles in interaction	Ph.D
Fatoş Işıl Cihan	Şehnaz Tahir-Gürçağlar	The Turkish Cosmopolitan magazine as translation: an analysis of representations of women	M.A.
Buket Dabancalı	Şehnaz Tahir-Gürçağlar	An ethnographic approach to news translation in Turkey	M.A.
Ceyda Elgül	Şehnaz Tahir-Gürçağlar	A Utopian journey in Turkish: from non-translation to retranslation	M.A.
Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı	Şehnaz Tahir-Gürçağlar	Turkey’s reading (R)evolution: a study on books, readers and translation (1840-1940)	Ph.D
Aslı Süreyya Sayman	Jonathan Ross	The quality of audiovisual translation in Turkey and the course of the production process: an empirical study on the subtitled and the dubbed versions of Will and Grace	M.A.

Turkish Language and Literature

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Sevgin Özer	Nur Gürani Arslan	Representing social order on the stage: an analysis of Şemsettin Sâmi’s plays within the framework of literary genres and themes	M.A.

Western Languages and Literatures

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Abbas Bozkurt (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş	Bodily fluids and formless bodies: Bataille reads Küçük İskender	M.A.
Berfu Şeker (Critical and Cultural Studies)	Işıl Baş, Nezih Erdoğan	Resignifying the mainstream: transgender embodiment in cinema in Turkey	M.A.
Nazım Çapkın (English Literature)	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	At SwimTwo-Birds & If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: a study of metafiction theory, intertextuality and authorship	M.A.
Oya Erez (English Literature)	Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu	Reading ethically in the context of globalization through Austerlitz and 2666	M.A.
Ayşe Candan Kirişci (English Literature)	Kim Fortuny	Nation-building and Gallipoli: representations in Turkish, Australian and New Zealand literatures	Ph.D
Gökçe Kuruçay (English Literature)	Lamia Gülçur	The uses and limitations of humour in postcolonial immigrant literature: The Mimic Men, Admiring Silence and White Teeth	M.A.
Dilek Öztürk (English Literature)	Aslı Tekinay	Between stories and stage: narrative presence in Samuel Beckett‘s dramatic art	M.A.
Aylin Birsen Yılmaz (English Literature)	Özlem Öğüt	Vanishing books & lost writers: question of authorship in Paul Auster's novels	M.A.

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Economics

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Serap Özçelik	Guzin Gülsün Akın	Determinants of customer satisfaction in the Turkish credit card market	M.A.
Mustafa Safa Öz	Gökhan Özertan, Burak Saltoğlu	Empirical analysis of agricultural commodity prices	M.A.
Ali Yavuz Polat	Ahmet Faruk Aysan	Macro stress-testing approach of credit risk: evidence from Turkey	M.A.
Burak Türkgülü	Murat Koyuncu	Urbanization and structural change in an endogenous growth setting	M.A.
Sümeyya Yıldız	Ayşe Mumcu	Welfare implications of competition in a vertical market structure: a case of accumulator industry	M.A.

Management

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Ayşe Meral Dülgen	Hayat Kabasakal, Güven Alpay	Significance of team-based organizations in business process orientation and effectiveness: an application to service firms in Turkey	Ph.D
Sarhan Erel	Ulaş Akküçük	A segmentation study of college students based on employer choice preferences	M.A.
Selin Küçükkancabaş	Muzaffer Bodur, Cengiz Yılmaz	Understanding university choice decisions of Turkish students	Ph.D
Abdullah Behçet Teuman	Ulaş Akküçük	Re-assessment of E-S-Qual scale in the internet banking services in Turkey	M.A.
Barış Ursavaş	Muzaffer Bodur, Cengiz Yılmaz	Effects of music on consumer memory, attitudes and time perception	Ph.D

Political Science and International Relations

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Nurcan Aytemur	Mine Eder	Neo-liberal transformation of agriculture in Turkey? a case study with olive producers in Ayvalık	M.A.
Deniz Kabaağaç	Hakan Yılmaz	The Imaginary Ottoman: an examination of “Ottomanism” among the Islamic elites in today’s Turkey as an intellectual bridge between the local and the global	M.A.
Ezgi Kaya	Ayşen Candaş	Investigative journalism in corporate media: reporters' perceptions of investigative journalism in Turkey	M.A.
Dilşah Şeylan	Murat Akan	Contemporary women's movement in Turkey: production of different knowledges	M.A.
Mine Yıldırım	Hakan Yılmaz	The philosophical sources of contemporary politics of identity in G.W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: a critical reading of Charles Taylor and Jean Hyppolite	M.A.
Özge Zihnioğlu	Hakan Yılmaz	Europeanization of Turkish civil society organizations during the accession process to the EU : a Gramscian analysis	Ph.D

The Faculty of Education

Educational Sciences

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Meltem Akbulut	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Leadership effectiveness of heads of departments in state universities in Turkey from the perspective of leadership roles	M.A.
Pınar Albayrak Ataklı	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Factors related to basic numeracy skills of adults in Turkey	M.A.
Zehra Bahadır	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	Women’s receptions of female characters on television, 2010- 2011	M.A.
Ebru Davaracı	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Alienation of labor: perceptions of English language teachers at Turkish universities	M.A.
Ayhan Erbay	Fatma Gök	The effects of people education centers' literacy courses on participants' lives	M.A.
Ayça Günaydın	Fatma Gök	The construction of gender roles and motherhood: the case of ''the family education program for ages 0-18	M.A.
Gülşah Kısabacak	Fatma Nevra Seggie	Private universities as a working place through the eyes of academics	M.A.
Halis Sakız	Z. Hande Sart	Perceptions of quality of life in children with learning disabilities	M.A.
Esin Yiğit	Özlem Ünlühisarcıklı	Learning experiences of individuals with visual disabilities in the workplace	M.A.

Foreign Language Education

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Zeliha Aydın	Senem Yıldız	Enhanced collaboration in foreign language education: use of wikis in collaborative writing projects	M.A.
Ahmet Süleyman	Leyla Martı	A descriptive study on the performance of complaints by Turkish university students in an EFL context	M.A.
Canan Eliçin	Leyla Martı	The strategies in requests and apologies of Turkish FLED students: a comparison of electronic mails and DCT data	M.A.

The School of Applied Disciplines

International Trade 

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Buğra İsmail Asfuroğlu	Abdülmecit Karataş	Valuation of small and medium sized manufacturing companies in Turkey: effect of internationalization, earnings, cash flows, dividends, book value and leverage	M.A.
Süreyya Burcu Avcı	Emine Nur Günay	International banking system distress: a macro approach for the global crisis of 2008	M.A.
Didem Büyükarslan	Sema Sakarya	International trade of Turkish contemporary artworks: an empirical study on the role of artist histoy, institutions and economic and socio-cultural factors in demand	M.A.
Barış Can	Emine Nur Günay	The Altai union: a potential customs union between Turkey, Central Asia and South Korea	M.A.
Özge Erkan	Nisan Selekler Gökşen	The effects of board member characteristics on internationalization performance: analysis of the Turkish case	M.A.
Ayçin Irak	Ülfet Zeynep Ata	Determinants and distribution of power in buyer-seller relationships in business-to-business markets	M.A.
Hasan Özmen	Elif Deniz Alakavuk	Market orientation and marketing strategy creativity: assessment of their antecedents	M.A.
Duygu Şen	Sema Sakarya	An empirical investigation of global brand personality in variance: a comparison of Turkey and India	M.A.
Mehmet Gökhan Sivrikaya	Emine Nur Günay, Ayla Altınkurt Esen	Strategic planning, scenario development and organizational performance during economic crises	M.A.
Nagehan Soyer	Sema Sakarya	Culture, consumption value and online shopping behavior: a cross-cultural study on Turkey and the United Kingdom	M.A.
Gökmen Sümer	Emine Nur Günay	Determinants of renewable energy supply in Europe: a potential solution for Turkey’s energy dependency	M.A.
Selen Zora	Ayfer Hortaçsu, Elif Deniz Alakavuk	Customer evaluation of the corporate social responsibility practices: study on the Turkish banking industry	M.A.

Management Information Systems

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Yasemin Aydoğan	Zuhal Tanrıkulu	Evaluating e-learning environment by using data mining techniques	M.A.
Can Aytekin	Aslı Sencer Erdem	Value of information in vendor managed supply chains	M.A.
Birgül Başarır	Aslı Erdem	A simulation based decision support system for workforce management in call centers	M.A.
Esra Başol	Özgür Döğerlioğlu	Structural analysis of software industry organizations in Turkey	M.A.
Emre Çakmak	Hande Kımıloğlu	Consumer trust in the online environment	M.A.
Semra Çalışkan	Birgül Kutlu	The effects of dynamic packaging systems on the performance of travel organizations	M.A.
Mert Canlı	Aslıhan Nasır	Effectiveness of online advertising types: comparison of Banner ads and paid search ads	M.A.
Neval Polat Eden	Bertan Badur, Haluk Bingöl	On the Axelrod’s social influence model with obstruction	M.A.
Burak Gül	Aslı Sencer Erdem	A decision support system for generating optimal raw milk managment strategies in a dairy supply chain	M.A.
Nüket İyigün	Meltem Özturan	Critical human success factors for ERP projects	M.A.
Çiğdem Karakaya	Bertan Badur	Analyzing the effectiveness of marketing strategies in the presence of word of mouth: agent - based modeling approach	M.A.
Selçuk Kıran	Hande B. Kımıloğlu	Consumer loyalty in the online environment	M.A.
Gözde Özdemir	Hande B. Kımıloğlu	Online price-related behavior and attitude toward various pricing models	M.A.
Selen Özgür	Hande B. Kımıloğlu	Evaluating the market potential and expected consumer acceptance of mobile virtual network operators for the Turkish market	M.A.
Tunca Turan	Aslıhan Nasır	Factors affecting online shopping behavior of Turkish consumers	M.A.
Onur Can Ulaş	Meltem Özturan	The opportunities and limitations of using OLAP cubes for business intelligence reporting in banking	M.A.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Cognitive Science

Author	Advisor(s)	Title	M.A./Ph.D
Avni Burak Erbora	Markus Pöchtrager	Mental representation in phonology: a case study in the philosophy of cognitive science	M.A.
Ömer Dağlar Tanrıkulu	Berna Kılınç, Hasan Galip Bahçekapılı	Biases in probability judgments: hot hand versus gambler's fallacy	M.A.