Reflections on the Transformative Experiences of Young People in Izmir Moving To Another City in Pursuit of Higher Education
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2015
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İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi
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Bu tez üniversite öğrenimi için yaşadıkları şehirden ayrılıp İzmir'e yerleşen gençlerin bu süreçte kimlikleri üzerinde oluşan dönüştürücü etkileri incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Aileden ve yerelinden fizksel olarak ayrılış ile başlayan bu süreç geçiş ritüeli olarak ele alınmıştır. Gençler gittikleri şehirde gündelik hayatlarını kurarken yeni bir strateji alanının içine girmekte ve taktikler geliştirmektedir. Bu taktikler eşliğinde şehir hayatına ve üniversite hayatına uyum sağlarken önemli karşılaşmalar yaşamaktadırlar. Bu çalışma, merkeze bu karşılaşmaları koyarak, katılımcı gözlem ve gençlerle yapılan derinlemesine görüşmeler aracılığı ile mekan değişiminin ve gençlerin gündelik hayatlarının yeniden kuruluşunun kimlik dönüşümüne etkisini araştırmaktadır.4 farklı üniversitede öğrenci olan toplamda 15 genç ile derinlemesine görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcılar kartopu tekniği ile rastgele seçilmiştir. Ayrıca araştırmacı 1 yılı aşkın bir süre farklı gençler ile gündelik hayatlarında birlikte bulunarak katılımcı gözlemde de bulunmuştur. Bu tez üniversite hayatı için şehir değiştirmenin katılımcılar üzerinde üretken bir kafa karışıklığı etkisi yarattığını iddia ederken, bu durumunun gençlerin kimlik dönüşümleri üzerinde çarpıcı etkileri olduğunu öne sürmektedir.
This thesis aims at scrutinizing the transformative effects on the identities of young people who have moved from their hometowns to Izmir to study in a university. This process, which starts with a detachment from the family and the locality, has been conceptualized as a 'rite of passage'. These young people, as they formulate their daily lives, enter new realms of strategy and develop tactics accordingly. As they adapt to city and university life through these tactics, they experience influential encounters. The research, positioning these encounters as its centerpiece, analyses the impact of mobility and reformulation of daily life on the identity transformations of these young people. In depth interviews have been conducted with a total of 15 young people studying in 4 different universities. The participants have been chosen randomly through a snowballing technique. There has also been a participant observation, lasting more than a year, where the researcher has spent time with a multitude of young individuals in their daily life experiences. The thesis concludes that changing cities for university education has a 'productive disorienting' effect on the participants of this study, and that this results in dramatic transformations in the identities of these young people.
This thesis aims at scrutinizing the transformative effects on the identities of young people who have moved from their hometowns to Izmir to study in a university. This process, which starts with a detachment from the family and the locality, has been conceptualized as a 'rite of passage'. These young people, as they formulate their daily lives, enter new realms of strategy and develop tactics accordingly. As they adapt to city and university life through these tactics, they experience influential encounters. The research, positioning these encounters as its centerpiece, analyses the impact of mobility and reformulation of daily life on the identity transformations of these young people. In depth interviews have been conducted with a total of 15 young people studying in 4 different universities. The participants have been chosen randomly through a snowballing technique. There has also been a participant observation, lasting more than a year, where the researcher has spent time with a multitude of young individuals in their daily life experiences. The thesis concludes that changing cities for university education has a 'productive disorienting' effect on the participants of this study, and that this results in dramatic transformations in the identities of these young people.
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Sosyoloji, Sociology, İletişim Bilimleri, Communication Sciences, Eğitim, Education, Kimlik parçalanışı, Identity fragmentation, Yer değiştirme, Displacement, Yerleşim, Settlement, Yerleşim yeri, Location area, Yükseköğretim, Higher education, Üniversite öğrencileri, University students, İzmir, Izmir, İç göçler, Internal migrations, Şehirlerarası, Inter-city
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