University Social Science Research Articles

El uso de las redes sociales de la comunidad académica

A study of the social networks of the Library of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of the Republic, Uruguay) is carried out, after 6 years of existence and uninterrupted publications. The objective is to improve the presence and communication of the Library in social networks, in addition to transmitting the experience to other university information services that can find a working model. The study focuses on two factors: the users and the posts made.

BİLGİYİ BENİMSEME MODELİ, BİLGİYE KARŞI TUTUM VE ALGILANAN RİSK ÇERÇEVESİNDE INSTAGRAMIN ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN SATIN ALMA DAVRANIŞINA ETKİSİ: YOZGAT BOZOK ÜNİVERSİTESİ MYO ÖRNEĞİ

Bu çalışmada, oldukça yaygın kullanılan sosyal medya aracı ve önemli bir e-WOM kaynağı olarak Instagramın satın alma davranışı üzerindeki etkinliği ölçülmektedir. Sussman ve Siegal (2003) tarafından geliştirilen Bilgiyi Benimseme Modeli ile algılanan risk ve bilgiye karşı tutum faktörlerinin birlikte ele alındığında instagramda bir ürün hakkında yapılan yorumların üniversite öğrencilerinin satın alma deneyimlerine etkisini belirlemek amaçlanmaktadır. Bu amaçla Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi Sosyal ve Teknik Bilimler Meslek Yüksek Okulunda öğrenim gören 290 öğrenci ile yüzyüze anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Veriler IBM Spss 23.0 ile analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlara göre üniversite öğrencileri için instagramda takip ettikleri kişiler tarafından yapılan yorumların benimsenmesi, yorumlarda bahsedilen ürünü satın alma niyetine pozitif yönde etki etmektedir. Risk algısı arttıkça benimseme düzeyi düşmektedir. Bilginin kullanışlığı ve bilgiye karşı tutum benimseme düzeyini pozitif yönde etkilemektedir.

Staj Deneyiminin Kariyer Seçimine Etkisi: Trakya Bölgesi’ndeki Turizm Öğrencilerine Yönelik Bir Araştırma

With the expansion of tourism in an international and national basis, the need for qualified staff to work in tourism is increasing day by day. Although there are many universities that provide tourism education in our country and a students graduate from tourism faculties every year, the sector still suffers from having the professional labor force that has received education on this business. The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of internship experiences of undergraduate and graduate students receiving tourism education in Turkey's Thrace region (Kirklareli - Edirne - Tekirdag) on their career choices. Sub-objectives of the research are to define the students' perceptions towards the sector, attitudes towards the sector, tendencies to make a career in the sector and motivation of internship. Survey technique from the quantitative research methods have been used in the research. The universe of the research is composed of the associate and undergraduate students of Kirklareli Tourism Faculty and Pinarhisar Vocational School, Trakya University Applied Sciences Academy and Tekirdag Namik Kemal University Social Sciences Vocational School Tourism and Hotel Management, located in Thrace region. The sample of the research consists of 215 undergraduate and 90 associate degree students. The research questionnaire has been applied to students who have been trained in tourism and completed at least one internship. As a result, the effect of motivation of internship, job environment, education and sectoral adjustment variables on career choice is significant.

Internationalization of Higher Education in the Autonomy Context: A Case Study of Vietnam National University, Hanoi

In the movement of integration and development in Vietnam, universities are moving from centralized management to subsidized decentralization and strengthening the autonomy of universities to meet the goals of the innovation and integration phase. This paper would evaluate the international identity in Vietnam and at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) in the context of higher education autonomy. A number of policy factors affect international cooperation at the VNU; The role of scholarly exchanges for students, lecturers in the context of international integration; the impact of international affiliate programs to the internationalization of higher education at VNU.
 Keywords
 VNU, Vietnam, autonomy, internationalization, higher education
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MÜZE ve TARİHİ MEKÂNLARDA DEĞER ve BECERİ KAZANDIRMAYA YÖNELİK SOSYAL BİLGİLER ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ GÖRÜŞLERİ

Okul dışı öğrenme ve öğretme ortamları denilince akla ilk gelenlerden yerlerden birisi de müze ve tarihi mekânlardır. Alanyazın incelendiğinde bu mekânların öğrencilerin birçok kazanım elde etmesine olanak sağladığı, özellikle de soyut konuları somutlaştırarak öğrencilerde kalıcı izli öğrenmeler sağladığı üzerine araştırmalarda vurgu yapıldığı görülmektedir. Günümüzde bilgiye ulaşmanın, formal ya da informal ortamlarda, görece kolay olduğu düşünüldüğünde öğrencilere değer ve beceri kazandırmanın daha da önemli bir hale geldiği düşünülmektedir. Ancak alanyazında sosyal bilgiler dersinde müze ve tarihi mekânların değer ve beceri öğretiminde kullanılabileceğine dair çalışmalar oldukça sınırlıdır. Bu bağlamda araştırmanın amacı Sosyal Bilgiler öğretmen adaylarının müze ve tarihi mekânlarda öğrencilere değer ve beceri kazandırılmasına ilişkin düşünce ve deneyimlerini ortaya koymaktır. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden temel nitel araştırma kullanılmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen veriler Erciyes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmenliği programında öğrenim gören, ilk aşamada (görüş formu) 44, ikinci aşamada (görüş formu) 27, üçüncü aşamada (görüşme) 17 öğretmen adayından elde edilmiştir. Nitel veriler Nvivo 11 paket programı yardımıyla betimsel analiz tekniğiyle çözümlenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının sosyal bilgiler dersinde müzede vatanseverlik, dayanışma, sorumluluk, saygı, yardımseverlik, özgürlük, bağımsızlık, bağımsızlık, çalışkanlık, bilimsellik, estetik, duyarlılık, hoşgörü, dürüstlük, sevgi, barış ve aile birliğine önem verme gibi değerlerin; empati, mekânı algılama, gözlem, sosyal katılım, zaman ve kronolojiyi algılama, iletişim, yaratıcı düşünme ve Türkçeyi doğru ve güzel kullanma gibi becerilerin kazandırılabileceğini düşündükleri belirlenmiştir.

Evaluation of the University Professor Quality from the Student's Point of View: University of Mohammed Khiedr Biskra as a Case Study

Through this study, we will try to investigate the availability of quality elements in the university professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Muhammad Khider). To achieve the study goal, we initially presented the theoretical frameworks associated with assessing the quality of the university professor from the students ’point of view, then we move on to presenting the theoretical model of the research and clarifying its hypotheses. that's what allowed us to design a questionnaire containing 20 questions divided into four axes representing the dimensions of a University professor, in addition to an axis related to the personal data of the interviewee, the questionnaire was distributed to 287 students and the results of the study show the availability of quality dimensions among the professors of the College of Humanities and social sciences, there are also differences in evaluating quality dimensions due to the variable of sex and study level.

Książka jako „złoty standard” w naukach humanistycznych i społecznych

The article is devoted to the role of monographs in university humanisties and social sciences. The various contexts of the main problem are analysed with the special attention to the academic promotion and the „writing as a thinking” thesis. At the end the pedagogical role of the bookas a source of linea thinking is considered.against the backgroung of the growing dominance of virtual culture.

Instagram Story Sebagai Bentuk Self Disclosure Bagi Mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi Fakultas Ilmu Sosial Dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember

Self disclosure is one of the keys to success of interpersonal communication. Because in self disclosure, communicators will express some things about themselves to the communicant. In this case, some of the students of the Communication Sciences of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Muhammadiyah Jember expressed themselves through the Instagram Story application feature, which Instagram is a social media which is a public space and can be seen and accessed by many people. Therefore, it is necessary to know how to use Instagram Story and how self disclosure is carried out through the Instagram Story application feature among students of the Communication Studies Program at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Muhammadiyah Jember University. The focus of this study was to find out how self-disclosure was carried out by students of the Communication Sciences Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Muhammadiyah Jember. To describe the focus of the study, the research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative, with data collection methods in the form of interviews with several 2015 Communication Studies students, class 2016, batch 2017, and batch 2018. The technique for determining the data sources that researchers use is snowball sampling, where the researcher chooses one Communication Science student who will be the key informant to then provide instructions, who are the informants from the Communication Science students who are competent to provide data. The results obtained from this study are the first, students of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Science Communication Study Program at Muhammadiyah Jember University always use Instagram Story every day. Some of them even share content every day to Instagram Story, some only open their accounts every day to see posts from their friends without sharing content to Instagram Story. Second, self disclosure carried out by students of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Sciences Communication University of Muhammadiyah Jember is 1) Open Area, 2) Blind Area, 3) Hidden Area, 3) Unknown Area. Open areas and hidden areas are the areas most frequently carried out by informants in this study, almost all informants were included in the area. In the blind area there were only a few informants, and in unknown areas none was included, because in this area it was explained that there was information about informants that were not known to informants and even other people through Instagram Story. To explore this area, intense and intimate interactions can be carried out. However, this does not apply to self-disclosure through Instagram Story, because Instagram Story is a public space that can be seen anytime by anyone. Keywords : Interpersonal Communication, Self Disclosure, Social Media, Instagram Story.

Student’s Perception of Cooperative Learning on Their Academic Achievement and Social Development; The Case of Debre Tabor University Social Science and Humanities faculty, Ethiopia

Ministry of education in Ethiopia enforce to implement cooperative learning in all level of education more than other active learning strategy. But still there is continued debate in our university whether it is the most effective pedagogical technique to be used in higher education for overall development of student. To uncover these 61 males and 59 female students of faculty of social science and humanities from four departments through using stratified random sampling. Regarding sampled student composition 66 (55%) of them are group members in both sex, 36(30%) of them are group leader and 18 (15%) of students are class representative. The data were collected through using questionnaires and analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The finding reviled that first achievement majority of students 104 (86.66%) respond that Cooperative learning made them to score better grade than working individually. Second knowledge improvement (106 (88.33%) of students agree cooperative learning enhanced their knowledge of the subject matter). Thirdly general evaluation of cooperative learning method 95 (79.16%) of students agree cooperative learning exceeds the advantage of it than its disadvantages. The fourth finding indicate 101 (84.16%) , 105 (87.5%) and 100(83.33%) of students reported their class participation, communication and self-expression improved respectively. finaly 90 (75%) of student reported solve disciplinary problem by themselves using cooperative learning. From this finding it was made clear that more than 80% of students in all dimension of student development were reported as improved. Keywords: Cooperative learning, achievement, knowledge, social development, discipline. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-1-06

Project SWEAT (Summer Weight and Environmental Assessment Trial): study protocol of an observational study using a multistate, prospective design that examines the weight gain trajectory among a racially and ethnically diverse convenience sample of economically disadvantaged school-age children

IntroductionRacial/ethnic minority school-age children are at risk for unhealthy weight gain during the summer, and there is a dearth of information regarding the underlying behavioural and environmental factors. The study...

Reseña del libro “Territorios Colectivos. Proceso de Formación del Estado en el Pacifico colombiano 1993-2009”

El libro de la profesora e investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Antioquia Marta Isabel Domínguez “Territorios Colectivos. Proceso de Formación del Estado en el Pacifico colombiano 1993-2009”, es una apuesta investigativa en donde se piensa al Estado desde una mirada procesual y etnográfica. La pretensión de la autora es analizar distintos procesos donde participan actores relacionados en múltiples escalas, tanto locales como burocráticas y estatales.

PERSEPSI MAHASISWA ILMU KOMUNIKASI UNTAG SURABAYA TENTANG ACARA “MANCING MANIA” DI TRANS 7 (STUDI DESKRIPTIF PERSEPSI MAHASISWA ILMU KOMUNIKASI FISIP UNIVERSITAS 17 AGUSTUS 1945 SURABAYA ANGKATAN 2013-2016 )

Among the programs shown by television stations, sporting events is a program that manyshown by private television stations. Fishing Mania one of them, an exercise program that aired onTrans 7. Fishing Mania is the only program in Indonesia which tells the good fishing activities at seaand in rivers. The activities of writer wanted to know how students' perceptions of SocialCommunication Sciences University August 17, 1945 Surabaya on Fishing Mania events in Trans 7.With the aim to describe the perception of students of Social Communication Sciences UniversityAugust 17, 1945 Surabaya on impressions and the credibility of the presenter after watching FishingMania Trans 7. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, where researchers collectedprimary data that is distributing questionnaires to 40 respondents. The object of research is thestudents of Social Communication Sciences University August 17 1945 Surabaya force from 2013 to2016 who has ever watched the show Fishing Mania. From the results obtained in this study, 76% ofrespondents expressed positive about Fishing Mania. Fishing Mania respondents considered the showcan be entertaining and provide knowledge about the profession or the world of broadcasting TVBroadcasting.Keywords: Perception, Professional Broadcasters, Mass Communication.

The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Building a Culture of Peace: An Albanian Case

This study explores the status of peace education and its correlation to student perceptions of peace in social science curricula in Albanian universities. The study finds that social science programmes in Albania offer varying coverage of peace education topics. Using quantitative surveys of 460 social science university students, the study finds evidence for a positive understanding of peace. Employing a Pearson's correlation analysis, the study finds a lack of support for the hypothesis that the prevalence of peace topics in the curricula to which students are exposed significantly explains students’ perceptions of peace. The implications of the study are that Albanian curricula and students affirm a positive understanding of peace, yet more research is needed to understand what factors impact student perceptions of peace and how they may be leveraged to further peace education and overall peace dividends in Albania and beyond.

Valores democráticos para tiempos de crisis. Hallazgos de dos teorías

Desde la perspectiva de la cultura política, el artículo examina una diversidad de índices de democracia a la luz de las teorías de los valores de autoexpresión de Inglehart y Welzel y de los valores culturales de Schwartz, a fin de indagar la naturaleza de las orientaciones culturales que subyacen en distintos modos de conceptualizar y medir la democracia. El trabajo estudia teórica y empíricamente los puntos de convergencia de ambas teorías, investigando la relación de sus indicadores culturales con los diversos índices en una muestra de 100 países. Se utilizan dos medidas de “democracia efectiva” propuestas en la literatura, así como las elaboradas por Freedom House, Banco Mundial, Bertelsmann Stiftung y el Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales de Berlín (WZB) y Universidad de Zúrich (UZH). Las variables culturales son usadas para predecir cada uno de estos índices de democracia en modelos de regresión multivariados que incluyen además una batería de indicadores económicos, políticos y sociales. Las conclusiones apuntan a contribuir al debate normativo en un momento en el que crece la discusión pública y académica sobre una crisis o declive mundial de la democracia.

Conceptualising Gender Studies: Curriculum and Pedagogy

This article draws upon the experience of inhabiting the disciplinary space of Gender Studies (GS) as faculty in a newly founded social science and humanities university, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). It attempts to formulate the challenges in and potential for giving shape to this specialised discipline in a neo-liberal context. It grapples with some of the complexities of the originary moment and how they have affected the discipline. Issues and linkages with Women’s Studies also foreground some of the tensions that have characterised our brief disciplinary history. These themes are explored by drawing upon the experience of curricular review and design of the Master’s programme in GS and the pedagogical dilemmas that constantly crop up in this age of celebration of ‘difference’. The first section focuses on the larger context of higher education in which a university like AUD was set up along with a discussion of the specific context of the location of GS within AUD. The second section looks at the various transactions and negotiations needed to run the GS programme.

Foreword

Foreword Gary Kline In order to provide an international structure for the humane and scientific study of peoples, problems, and issues in the world’s developing countries, the late Dr. Harold Isaacs, professor emeritus of history at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, GA, founded the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), Inc., in 1983 with the ultimate goal of improving quality of life. The association now has a global membership and chapters in South Asia and Africa. In the summer of 2016, following a vote of the members of the association, ATWS was renamed the Association of Global South Studies (AGSS). As ATWS, the association began its history as an institution in 1991 when, under the newly ratified ATWS constitution, elected officials assumed responsibility for managing the organization. Since 1992, the executive headquarters have been located at Georgia Southern University (1992–2003), Mississippi State University (2003–2006), and Louisiana State University-Shreveport (2006–). Because of the dedicated and energetic leadership of Zia H. Hashmi and Paul Rodell at Georgia Southern, Shu-hui Wu at Mississippi State, and William Pederson at LSUS, AGSS has made great progress as a global professional organization. In 1995, the United Nations recognized the success of AGSS by granting it UN consultative status, thus enabling the association to increase its direct impact on world development. AGSS has a website (http://apps.gsw.edu/atws/), which will soon be revamped. Membership in AGSS is open to any person interested in studying the developing countries. Yearly membership dues are $60.00, which includes an annual subscription to JGSS. The yearly subscription rate is $60.00; single copies are $30.00. Discounts are available for students and those living in the developing countries. Membership and subscription forms and copies of JTWS/JGSS may be obtained by writing to the Association of Global South Studies, Inc., P.O. Box 1893, Starkville, MS, 39760. Individuals interested in submitting articles to [End Page vii] be considered or refereed for publication by the JGSS Board of Editors should write to the editor, Dr. Gary Kline, at the above address, or by email: gary.kline@gsw.edu. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, the International Bibliography of Book Reviews, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, Periodica Islamica, A Matter of Fact, Media Review, Consumers Index, Social Sciences Index, University Microfilms, Inc., PAIS Indexes, and CAB International (CABI). On behalf of all AGSS members and JGSS subscribers worldwide, I would like to express my gratitude to the associate editors of the journal. Without the dedication and superlative scholarship, skills, and abilities of Yi Sun (Asia), Peter Dumbuya (Africa), Michael Hall (Book Reviews), Jacek Lubecki (Middle East), Ryan Alexander (Latin America), and Jason Strakes (Eurasia), JGSS would not enjoy its present scope and quality. I also extend my sincere appreciation and thanks to Sara Abernathy, our very able editorial assistant. She has contributed very significantly to improving the quality of our journal. We also wish to thank Georgia Southwestern State University and the GSW Foundation for their continuing financial support for our journal. As our home institution, their commitment has both material and spiritual importance for us. Last but not least, Lauren Phillips, journals manager for University of Florida Press, deserves enthusiastic thanks and praise for her excellent production work and assistance. [End Page viii] Gary Kline Department of History and Political Science Georgia Southwestern State University Americus, Georgia 31709 Copyright © 2018 Association of Global South Studies, Inc

Confronting Climate Change: The Uneasy Alliance of Scientists and Nonscientists in a Neoliberal World

Confronting Climate Change: The Uneasy Alliance of Scientists and Nonscientists in a Neoliberal World

The Relationship Between Autism Symptomatology, Performance, Experienced Problems, and Benefits in Problem-Based Learning Curricula

The attention for supporting students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at university has recently grown. However, no research to date has looked into the fit between autism symptomatology and a specific form of education, problem-based learning (PBL). To examine the fit between individuals scoring high on the autism spectrum and the characteristics of PBL, a new questionnaire was developed that focuses on the core elements of PBL: learning as a constructive, self-directed, collaborative, and contextual process. This new questionnaire and an ASD symptomatology questionnaire, the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), were filled out online by university social sciences and humanities students. The findings show that higher ASD symptomatology predicted experiencing more problems (F(3, 103) = 15.24, p < .001, R 2 = .31) and fewer benefits (F(3, 103) = 10.28, p < .001, R 2 = .23) of PBL. However, these experiences were not accompanied by lower grades (F(3, 103) = 0.36, p = .784, R 2 = .01). These results are in contrast with previous findings from traditional, lecture-based curricula, in which students scoring high on the autism spectrum perform worse than students scoring low on the autism spectrum. The discrepancy between experiencing more problems and less benefits but no effect on performance is explained by accommodation and desirable difficulties, stating that the characteristics offered by PBL might help students scoring high on the spectrum develop the skills necessary to succeed in (university) education.

The Crisis of Japanese Higher Education: Where Is the Problem?

Review of:Shunya Yoshimi, ‘Bunkeigakubuhaishi’ no Shougeki [The Shock of Closing down University Humanities and Social Sciences Departments (my translation)], Shueisha, Tokyo, 2016.

Self-Medication Pattern among Social Science University Students in Northwest Ethiopia.

Background. Inappropriate self-medication causes wastage of resources among others. Method. This survey study was conducted to determine self-medication pattern of 404 social science university students in Northwest Ethiopia, who were selected through stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS version 20 statistical software. Binary Logistic Regression analysis was employed with P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant. Result. At 95.3% response rate, mean age of 21.26 ± 1.76 years, and male/female ratio of 1.26, the prevalence of self-medication during the six month recall period was 32.7%. Headache (N = 87, 69.1%) was the primary complaint that prompted the practice and hence analgesics (N = 67, 53.2%) were the mostly used drugs followed by antimicrobials (N = 50, 39.7%). The top two reasons driving the practice were nonseverity of the illness (N = 41, 32.5%) and suggestions from friends (N = 33, 26.2%). Female sex (P = 0.042) and higher income (P = 0.044) were associated with the practice. Conclusion. Self-medication practice, involving the use of both nonprescription and prescription drugs such as antimicrobials, among the social science university students is high. Therefore health education interventions regarding the risks of inappropriate self-medication are essential.