
İbrahim Cinkaya Social Sciences High School is a secondary education institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Türkiye. The school is located on Cinkaya Boulevard in the Şemikler Neighborhood, seven kilometers from the city center. Its primary objective is to cultivate individuals with academic expertise in using Turkish as a language of science and with advanced proficiency in foreign languages.【1】 History The institutional identity of the schoo
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Gözde Cabadak

M. Emin Saraç Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi, located in the Başakşehir district of İstanbul, is an Anadolu imam hatip high school under the General Directorate of Religious Education of the Ministry of National Education. The school operates as a centralized project school offering the Science and Social Sciences Program and admitting students through centralized examinations. The duration of education, including the preparatory class, is five years. History The campus construction was completed in
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Azra Karaca

The effort to understand human communities, social relations, and how these relations change over time is as old as human history itself. However, the emergence and institutionalization of disciplines known today as “social sciences” is the result of a long historical process. The historiography of the social sciences is a field of research that examines the origins, development, transformations, and knowledge production processes of these disciplines. This field does not merely recount the past
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Seher Yıldız Külünk

Ibn Haldun University (IHU) is a foundation university established in Istanbul in 2015 by the Türkiye Youth and Education Services Foundation (TÜRGEV) and began its educational activities in the 2017–2018 academic year. Foundation University aims to distinguish itself in Türkiye and globally as a “research university” through an educational model specialized in the social sciences. Within the principle of intellectual independence, it seeks to foster students’ capacity to develop original though
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Bilal Utku Karakoç

Discourse analysis is a method of analysis that treats language not merely as a tool of communication between individuals, but as a practice that constructs, sustains, and transforms social structures. This approach seeks to understand how individuals or social groups construct identities, establish social relationships, and participate in the production of ideological structures through language. In this context, discourse is a multilayered social phenomenon that acquires meaning within specifi
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Ahsen Karakaş

The Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul University was established in 1982 under Article 19 of the Higher Education Law No. 2547 as part of Istanbul University. The institute provides postgraduate education and training in the field of social sciences, contributing to scientific research and practical projects. Since its inception, it has trained individuals specialized in various disciplines of social sciences, offering significant contributions to academia and society. Historical Developm
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Mehmet Salih Çoban

Ibn Haldun University (IHU) is a endowment university established in Istanbul in 2015 by the Türkiye Youth and Education Services Foundation (TÜRGEV) and began academic activities in the 2017-2018 academic year. University aims to emerge as a “research university” in Türkiye and globally through an educational model specialized in the social sciences. Within the principle of intellectual independence, it seeks to enable its students to develop independent thought and to become globally competent
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Bilal Utku Karakoç

Samsun İbrahim Tanrıverdi Social Sciences High School is a secondary education institution located in the İlkadım district of Samsun, specializing in social sciences and literature. The school operates under the authority of the Ministry of National Education of Türkiye with a status equivalent to science high schools, aiming to prepare gifted students for higher education in social fields.【1】 History Samsun İbrahim Tanrıverdi Social Sciences High School was established on 09.05.2005 and began i
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Kayseri Kilim Social Sciences High School is a secondary education institution located in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri Province, specializing in social sciences and literature. It is among the first Social Sciences High Schools established nationwide in Türkiye and has been operating under the status of a Project School since 2015.【1】 History The idea of establishing social sciences high schools first emerged in the 1940s and was later discussed in the 1970s as an infrastructure project to
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Social psychologist and sociologist Hofstede defines culture as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or society from another and is acquired through the process of living, shaping the interactions between a society and its environment.”【1】 According to him, culture represents a shared set of characteristics; it is an phenomenon in which material and immaterial interactions or actions are jointly performed and sustained. Hofstede further examined cul
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Zeyneb KILIÇ