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Sosyoekonomi, 2024
This article delves into the social mobility strategies employed by parents and their descendants... more This article delves into the social mobility strategies employed by parents and their descendants from diverse social classes in structuring educational pathways and vocational choices across successive generations. The study relies on qualitative data from in-depth interviews conducted in Ankara with 24 parents and 18 offspring. Data analysis reveals that the strategies parents and their offspring embrace are intricately shaped by their social class positions and the cultural, social, and economic capital available to the latter. Labourer families grappling with cultural capital limitations exhibit constrained guidance to their offspring. In contrast, self-employed professional families actively deploy their comprehensive cultural capital to perpetuate privileged class positions across generations. Business owners or commercial entrepreneurs, characterised by a distinctive outlook, view education as a pathway to attain heightened social status rather than as a means of upward mobility. To address the inequalities uncovered in this research, establishing counselling centres for families to guide how to mentor their children and for the children themselves to facilitate the discovery of their abilities and interests could offer a solution toward mitigating these inequalities.
Books by Emine Akçelik
Social Sciences in Theory and Practice, 2024
The chapter will focus on the intellectual contributions of Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons, two to... more The chapter will focus on the intellectual contributions of Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons, two towering figures in the history of sociological thought. Both Marx and Parsons have had a profound and lasting impact on the development of sociological theory, and their ideas have shaped the work of many subsequent theorists. However, theorists such as C. Wright Mills, Robert Merton, and Ralf Dahrendorf not only drew on the ideas of these classical sociologists but also critiqued and challenged them in significant ways.
Sosyoekonomi, 2024
This article delves into the social mobility strategies employed by parents and their descendants... more This article delves into the social mobility strategies employed by parents and their descendants from diverse social classes in structuring educational pathways and vocational choices across successive generations. The study relies on qualitative data from in-depth interviews conducted in Ankara with 24 parents and 18 offspring. Data analysis reveals that the strategies parents and their offspring embrace are intricately shaped by their social class positions and the cultural, social, and economic capital available to the latter. Labourer families grappling with cultural capital limitations exhibit constrained guidance to their offspring. In contrast, self-employed professional families actively deploy their comprehensive cultural capital to perpetuate privileged class positions across generations. Business owners or commercial entrepreneurs, characterised by a distinctive outlook, view education as a pathway to attain heightened social status rather than as a means of upward mobility. To address the inequalities uncovered in this research, establishing counselling centres for families to guide how to mentor their children and for the children themselves to facilitate the discovery of their abilities and interests could offer a solution toward mitigating these inequalities.
Social Sciences in Theory and Practice, 2024
The chapter will focus on the intellectual contributions of Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons, two to... more The chapter will focus on the intellectual contributions of Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons, two towering figures in the history of sociological thought. Both Marx and Parsons have had a profound and lasting impact on the development of sociological theory, and their ideas have shaped the work of many subsequent theorists. However, theorists such as C. Wright Mills, Robert Merton, and Ralf Dahrendorf not only drew on the ideas of these classical sociologists but also critiqued and challenged them in significant ways.