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Professional affiliation

2006-

RCUK Accademic Fellowship on migration, work and life course. Department of Sociology and Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) centre, University of Essex

Visiting Scholar

January-April 2004

Oxford University, Nuffield College. Worked on British data on my PhD project with Anthony Heath and Colin Mills.

Education and Academic Progress

Postgraduate:

2001-2006

PhD in Sociology, Department of Sociology / The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Radboud (the Netherlands) (defence: 19 Januari 2006).

1998-2001

M.A. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Catholic University of Nijmegen (now: Radboud University Nijmegen) (the Netherlands).

Undergraduate:

1997-1998

Secondary English Teacher Training, College of Windesheim, Zwolle (the Netherlands).

1993-1997

B.Sc. in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Istanbul, Istanbul (Turkey).

Dissertations

PhD in Sociology:
  • Changing class structure in post-industrial societies: Adjusting the EGP class schema. Supervised by Prof dr. N. D. de Graaf and Dr. A. Need, Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Output Thesis:
  • There are two classes within the middle class: A class of social and cultural specialists and a class of technocrats, both with a higher and a lower variant, in the Netherlands and Britain.
  • The social and cultural specialists are significantly more autonomous in performing their work tasks than the technocrats.
  • The social and cultural specialists give their class position significantly more to their offspring than the technocrats.
  • It is more difficult to enter the class of the social and cultural specialists in life-time career than the class of the technocrats.
  • The social and cultural specialists earn less, work more part-time, have more tolerant gender-role attitudes, vote more for left-wing political parties, possess more modern art than the technocrats.
  • The social and cultural specialists became the most leftist social class in the Netherlands between 1970 and 2004. In Britain, the social and cultural specialists have voted significantly more for left-wing political parties since 1964.
M.A. in Sociology:
  • Ethnic exclusionism against ethnic minorities in Nijmegen. Supervised by Prof dr. P. Scheepers, Department of Sociology, Catholic University of Nijmegen.

Courses Attended

2002-2004

Courses for Ph.D. students of the Radboud University Nijmegen (Academic Writing, Science Journalism, Advanced Writing in Dutch).

2002

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis.Log-linear modelling, (United Kingdom). Summer School ECSR on Education, Labour Markets and Labour Relations (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

2001-2003

Courses for sociology/methodology organised by The Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), theory formation, research methods, integration of theory and research methods and constructing, improving and judging questionnaires.

Teaching

2006-

Researching Social Life I and II

2002-2005

‘Learning Project Sociology/Communication Science’

2002-2004

‘Postmaterialism, protest movements and environmentalism’ in section Sociology at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Grants

  • The Aage B. Sørensen Memorial Award, by ISA Research Committee 28 for the paper ‘The rise of ‘new social classes’ within the service class in the Netherlands. Political orientation of the ‘new social classes’ between 1970-2000.’
Membership
  • Board Member of a Fund for Educational Grant ‘Stichting van den Elfdenfonds’.
  • International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility.
  • Interuniversity study group of Social Stratification and Inequality [Interuniversitair werkgroep Sociale Ongelijkheid en Levensloop (ISOL)].
  • Netherlands Sociological Association [Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging (NSV)].
Research Methods
  • During my study and PhD period, I have applied the following research methods:
  • In-depth interview, text analysis, Likert-scaling, Mokken-scaling, ANOVA analysis, OLS regression, logistic regression, multinomial logistic regression, log linear modelling, cluster analysis, multilevel analysis.
  • Software: Spss, Stata, Mlwin, Spss data entry, Word, Excel, Power Point.

Languages

  • Turkish (native), Dutch and English (fluent), German (good)