Social innovation is an effective response to changing social demands in welfare societies. By re... more Social innovation is an effective response to changing social demands in welfare societies. By reshaping social interactions in welfare provision, it essentially aims at building a new and more participative wellbeing, namely “the enabling welfare state”, without causing any decline in welfare rights of citizens. The European Union, in this sense, started a rigorous transition process to social innovative strategies in welfare provision in the beginning of 2000s. Hungary, as an outstandingly emerging economy of its region, also launched social innovation programs to make not only the market, but also citizens, community and local authorities more active in the co-provision of welfare. Even though social innovation strategies have not spread over the whole country yet, Hungary seems to have sufficient capacity and resources to make social innovation an effective part of "co-provision of welfare" or to turn itself an “enabling welfare state” in the near future.
As in many countries, there is a pressure on social security system of Turkey to reduce overall c... more As in many countries, there is a pressure on social security system of Turkey to reduce overall costs and increase savings at the same time. While the private sector responds these pressures by increasing flexible and atypical working types as expected, surprisingly, the public sector increasingly applies similar strategies. In this context, the education sector is exposed to various employment reforms and regulations. In this sense, more unsecured practices such as paid teaching and fixed-term contracts are replacing indefinite term job contracts both in private and public sectors. The negative side of this process is the unequal dual structure where a group of teachers are employed under indefinite term job contracts with stable social security coverage and where even a larger group of teachers are employed with fixed-term job contracts and covered only within their teaching period. These teachers, who are excluded from formal right-based social security system, inevitably, replac...
Türk sendikal yaşamı batılı ülkelerle kıyaslandığında görece geç bir dönemde başlamıştır. Bu duru... more Türk sendikal yaşamı batılı ülkelerle kıyaslandığında görece geç bir dönemde başlamıştır. Bu durumda ülkenin kültürel, toplumsal ve sosyo-ekonomik yapısı kadar siyasi iradelerinde konuya yaklaşımı belirleyici rol oynamıştır. Türk sendikal yaşamı için en dikkat çekici nokta, kazanılan hakların işçi sınıfının mücadelesi veya toplumsal hareketler sonucunda değil, siyasi iradelerin kararları ile gerçekleşmiş olmasıdır. Herhangi bir baskı unsuru olmadan ve kanunlarla tanınan sendikal haklar hemen hemen her dönem değişen siyasi anlayışla birlikte değişme göstermiş, kimi zaman genişletilmiş ve kimi zaman da kısıtlanmıştır. Ortaya çıkan bu genişlemeler ve kısıtlamalar sendikacılığın dönemsel değişimlerini ortaya çıkarmıştır. Sendikalar bazı dönemlerde güçlü bir yapı ortaya koyarken bazı zamanlarda çok sınırlı bir yapı ortaya koymuştur. Bu durumu irdelemek için başta 1961 ve 1982 yıllarında kabul edilenler olmak üzere, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasalarına dayanarak çıkarılan ve Türk sendikal ya...
Vatandaslik kavrami haklardaki gelisim surecine bagli olarak, toplumsal yasamin ilk donemlerinden... more Vatandaslik kavrami haklardaki gelisim surecine bagli olarak, toplumsal yasamin ilk donemlerinden bu yana surekli tartisilan dinamik bir konudur. Bu dogrultuda, bircok dusunur ideal vatandaslik algisina iliskin farkli fikir ve modeller gelistirmistir. Jean Jacques Rousseau da bu dusunurlerden biridir. Bu calismada, Jean Jacques Rousseau’nun 18 yuzyila ait vatandaslik fikirlerinin 20. yuzyil vatandaslik algisiyla olan benzer ve farkli yonleri belirlenmeye calisilacaktir. Modern vatandaslik algisi olarak, unlu Ingiliz sosyolog T. H. Marshall’in guncel tartismalardaki onemini hala koruyan uc asamali vatandaslik modeli temel alinacaktir.
This volume-"Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy"-is the most internationa... more This volume-"Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy"-is the most international of all published monographs from the series "Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology." Among the scholars trying to grasp the nuances and trends of social policy, there are diverse perspectives, resulting not only from the extensive knowledge of the authors on the systematic approach to the issue of supporting older people but also from the grounds of the represented social gerontology schools. In the texts of Volume VII interesting are both distinct and coherent elements presenting the role of local, regional and global policies in the prism of the countries from which the authors originate: the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, and the United States. The chapters show a wealth of methodological approaches to the perception of social policy and its tools. In the texts there are issues related to the idea of ...
Post-endustriyel toplumlar saglik hizmetlerinde ve refah duzeyinde saglanan iyilesmelere bagli ol... more Post-endustriyel toplumlar saglik hizmetlerinde ve refah duzeyinde saglanan iyilesmelere bagli olarak, yasli nufusunun nispeten daha yuksek oldugu toplumlardir. Ancak yaslilik yasam diliminin butunsel bir bolumunu olusturmamakta, birbirinden farkli talep ve ihtiyaclarin bulundugu alt donemlere ayrilmaktadir. “Ucuncu yas” ve “dorduncu yas” siniflandirmasi bu ayrimin bir sonucudur. Bu cercevede, ucuncu yas sundugu imkânlarla bir firsat donemi olarak nitelendirilirken, dorduncu yas ise icerdigi sorun ve tehditler nedeniyle bir tehlike donemi olarak nitelendirilmektedir. Dolayisiyla, yaslanma olgusunun bireysel ve toplumsal refah duzeyine etkilerini incelerken tum bir yaslilik donemini kapsayan tek bir olumlu ya da olumsuz cikarim yapmak hem kolay degildir hem de isabetli olmayacaktir. Bu noktada devlete ve sosyal politika kurumlarina dusen gorev, dorduncu yas grubundaki yaslilarin aktif, uretken ve kendi kendine yeterli bir yasam surmesine olanak saglayacak tedbirleri almasi ve gerekli...
Bu makale, calismanin zaman disiplini yoluyla bireye ait bir aktivite olmaktan cikip, “topluma fa... more Bu makale, calismanin zaman disiplini yoluyla bireye ait bir aktivite olmaktan cikip, “topluma faydali” bir eylem haline nasil donusturuldugunu degerlendirmektedir. Aslinda bireylerin calisma ve calisma disi zaman algisinda, gunumuze gelene kadar surekli degisiklikler yasanmistir. Bu dogrultuda, calisma ve calisma disi zaman seklinde iki farkli zaman diliminin cok da farkinda olunmadigi toplum yapisindan, bu iki farkli zamanin birbirinden kesin cizgilerle ayrildigi gunumuzdeki toplum yapisina gecilmistir. Bu anlam degisikliginde etkili olan faktorlerin basinda, bireye dayatilan siki zaman disiplini gelmektedir. Sonuc olarak calisma, sinirlarini ve yapilma anini doga kosullarindaki zorlamalarin haricinde bireyin kendisinin belirledigi ozgur ve icsel bir alan olmaktan cikmis ve bireyin pasiflestirildigi, sisteme ait ve dissal bir alan haline donusmustur. Hatta gunumuz kosullarinda sadece calisma alani degil, calisma disinda kalan bos zaman aktiviteleri de zaman disiplini yoluyla siste...
Social innovation is an effective response to changing social demands in welfare societies. By re... more Social innovation is an effective response to changing social demands in welfare societies. By reshaping social interactions in welfare provision, it essentially aims at building a new and more participative wellbeing, namely “the enabling welfare state”, without causing any decline in welfare rights of citizens. The European Union, in this sense, started a rigorous transition process to social innovative strategies in welfare provision in the beginning of 2000s. Hungary, as an outstandingly emerging economy of its region, also launched social innovation programs to make not only the market, but also citizens, community and local authorities more active in the co-provision of welfare. Even though social innovation strategies have not spread over the whole country yet, Hungary seems to have sufficient capacity and resources to make social innovation an effective part of "co-provision of welfare" or to turn itself an “enabling welfare state” in the near future.
As in many countries, there is a pressure on social security system of Turkey to reduce overall c... more As in many countries, there is a pressure on social security system of Turkey to reduce overall costs and increase savings at the same time. While the private sector responds these pressures by increasing flexible and atypical working types as expected, surprisingly, the public sector increasingly applies similar strategies. In this context, the education sector is exposed to various employment reforms and regulations. In this sense, more unsecured practices such as paid teaching and fixed-term contracts are replacing indefinite term job contracts both in private and public sectors. The negative side of this process is the unequal dual structure where a group of teachers are employed under indefinite term job contracts with stable social security coverage and where even a larger group of teachers are employed with fixed-term job contracts and covered only within their teaching period. These teachers, who are excluded from formal right-based social security system, inevitably, replac...
Türk sendikal yaşamı batılı ülkelerle kıyaslandığında görece geç bir dönemde başlamıştır. Bu duru... more Türk sendikal yaşamı batılı ülkelerle kıyaslandığında görece geç bir dönemde başlamıştır. Bu durumda ülkenin kültürel, toplumsal ve sosyo-ekonomik yapısı kadar siyasi iradelerinde konuya yaklaşımı belirleyici rol oynamıştır. Türk sendikal yaşamı için en dikkat çekici nokta, kazanılan hakların işçi sınıfının mücadelesi veya toplumsal hareketler sonucunda değil, siyasi iradelerin kararları ile gerçekleşmiş olmasıdır. Herhangi bir baskı unsuru olmadan ve kanunlarla tanınan sendikal haklar hemen hemen her dönem değişen siyasi anlayışla birlikte değişme göstermiş, kimi zaman genişletilmiş ve kimi zaman da kısıtlanmıştır. Ortaya çıkan bu genişlemeler ve kısıtlamalar sendikacılığın dönemsel değişimlerini ortaya çıkarmıştır. Sendikalar bazı dönemlerde güçlü bir yapı ortaya koyarken bazı zamanlarda çok sınırlı bir yapı ortaya koymuştur. Bu durumu irdelemek için başta 1961 ve 1982 yıllarında kabul edilenler olmak üzere, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasalarına dayanarak çıkarılan ve Türk sendikal ya...
Vatandaslik kavrami haklardaki gelisim surecine bagli olarak, toplumsal yasamin ilk donemlerinden... more Vatandaslik kavrami haklardaki gelisim surecine bagli olarak, toplumsal yasamin ilk donemlerinden bu yana surekli tartisilan dinamik bir konudur. Bu dogrultuda, bircok dusunur ideal vatandaslik algisina iliskin farkli fikir ve modeller gelistirmistir. Jean Jacques Rousseau da bu dusunurlerden biridir. Bu calismada, Jean Jacques Rousseau’nun 18 yuzyila ait vatandaslik fikirlerinin 20. yuzyil vatandaslik algisiyla olan benzer ve farkli yonleri belirlenmeye calisilacaktir. Modern vatandaslik algisi olarak, unlu Ingiliz sosyolog T. H. Marshall’in guncel tartismalardaki onemini hala koruyan uc asamali vatandaslik modeli temel alinacaktir.
This volume-"Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy"-is the most internationa... more This volume-"Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy"-is the most international of all published monographs from the series "Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology." Among the scholars trying to grasp the nuances and trends of social policy, there are diverse perspectives, resulting not only from the extensive knowledge of the authors on the systematic approach to the issue of supporting older people but also from the grounds of the represented social gerontology schools. In the texts of Volume VII interesting are both distinct and coherent elements presenting the role of local, regional and global policies in the prism of the countries from which the authors originate: the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, and the United States. The chapters show a wealth of methodological approaches to the perception of social policy and its tools. In the texts there are issues related to the idea of ...
Post-endustriyel toplumlar saglik hizmetlerinde ve refah duzeyinde saglanan iyilesmelere bagli ol... more Post-endustriyel toplumlar saglik hizmetlerinde ve refah duzeyinde saglanan iyilesmelere bagli olarak, yasli nufusunun nispeten daha yuksek oldugu toplumlardir. Ancak yaslilik yasam diliminin butunsel bir bolumunu olusturmamakta, birbirinden farkli talep ve ihtiyaclarin bulundugu alt donemlere ayrilmaktadir. “Ucuncu yas” ve “dorduncu yas” siniflandirmasi bu ayrimin bir sonucudur. Bu cercevede, ucuncu yas sundugu imkânlarla bir firsat donemi olarak nitelendirilirken, dorduncu yas ise icerdigi sorun ve tehditler nedeniyle bir tehlike donemi olarak nitelendirilmektedir. Dolayisiyla, yaslanma olgusunun bireysel ve toplumsal refah duzeyine etkilerini incelerken tum bir yaslilik donemini kapsayan tek bir olumlu ya da olumsuz cikarim yapmak hem kolay degildir hem de isabetli olmayacaktir. Bu noktada devlete ve sosyal politika kurumlarina dusen gorev, dorduncu yas grubundaki yaslilarin aktif, uretken ve kendi kendine yeterli bir yasam surmesine olanak saglayacak tedbirleri almasi ve gerekli...
Bu makale, calismanin zaman disiplini yoluyla bireye ait bir aktivite olmaktan cikip, “topluma fa... more Bu makale, calismanin zaman disiplini yoluyla bireye ait bir aktivite olmaktan cikip, “topluma faydali” bir eylem haline nasil donusturuldugunu degerlendirmektedir. Aslinda bireylerin calisma ve calisma disi zaman algisinda, gunumuze gelene kadar surekli degisiklikler yasanmistir. Bu dogrultuda, calisma ve calisma disi zaman seklinde iki farkli zaman diliminin cok da farkinda olunmadigi toplum yapisindan, bu iki farkli zamanin birbirinden kesin cizgilerle ayrildigi gunumuzdeki toplum yapisina gecilmistir. Bu anlam degisikliginde etkili olan faktorlerin basinda, bireye dayatilan siki zaman disiplini gelmektedir. Sonuc olarak calisma, sinirlarini ve yapilma anini doga kosullarindaki zorlamalarin haricinde bireyin kendisinin belirledigi ozgur ve icsel bir alan olmaktan cikmis ve bireyin pasiflestirildigi, sisteme ait ve dissal bir alan haline donusmustur. Hatta gunumuz kosullarinda sadece calisma alani degil, calisma disinda kalan bos zaman aktiviteleri de zaman disiplini yoluyla siste...
“Uzun yolculuklarda içinden geçilen, tepelere kurulmuş, upuzun, ipince, garip bir kenttir İzmit. ... more “Uzun yolculuklarda içinden geçilen, tepelere kurulmuş, upuzun, ipince, garip bir kenttir İzmit. Yolların, yolculukların kentidir. Bütün yolların Roma’ya çıktığı vakitler, Roma İmparatorluğu’nun doğudaki başkenti ve en önemli kentlerinden biri değil miydi zaten? İzmit bir geçiş coğrafyasının üzerinde kuruludur. (…) İzmit gurbetin şehridir... İzmit’te İzmitliler bile gurbette gibi yaşar... Yolların üzerinde bir kapıdır İzmit... İstanbul’a açılan kapıdır, İstanbul’dan Anadolu’ya açılan kapıdır... En çok da geçim kapısıdır...”
This volume-“Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy”-is the most international of all p... more This volume-“Selected Contemporary Challenges of Aging Policy”-is the most international of all published monographs from the series “Czech-Polish-Slovak Studies in Andragogy and Social Gerontology.” Among the scholars trying to grasp the nuances and trends of social policy, there are diverse perspectives, resulting not only from the extensive knowledge of the authors on the systematic approach to the issue of supporting older people but also from the grounds of the represented social gerontology schools. In the texts of Volume VII interesting are both distinct and coherent elements presenting the role of local, regional and global policies in the prism of the countries from which the authors originate: the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Turkey, and the United States. The chapters show a wealth of methodological approaches to the perception of social policy and its tools. In the texts there are issues related to the idea of active ageing, discrimination against older people in the workplace, comparability of solutions friendly to employment of older adults in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia as well as focused on the importance of educational forms (universities of the third age, senior clubs, folk high schools, and other non-formal solutions) determining an active life in old age. This monograph also attempted to answer the question regarding how to transfer the idea of intergenerational learning into the realm of practice. This issue complements the chapter on the implementation of intergenerational programs in institutions providing long-term care support. The book also outlines a public policy on ageing in the perspective of the changes over the last few decades (Slovenia) and the case demonstrating solutions to accelerate self-reliance as a key to active ageing (Turkey). We hope that seventh volume of our series will be an intellectual stimulus for further international research on change in social policy and will contribute to the dissemination of best practices as well as contribute to positive social change.
The policies of socioeconomic protection of older adults in most parts of the world are being red... more The policies of socioeconomic protection of older adults in most parts of the world are being redesigned in the scope of value-added targets, such as active ageing, successful ageing, or creative ageing. The main purpose here is, of course, enabling older adults self-sufficient and beneficial both for themselves and their social environment, instead of being simply the passive beneficiaries of the public support mechanisms. Turkey has a population which is still young but ageing very rapidly and will reach to the same point as Europe today in a relatively much shorter time. However, the country still seems to be away from conducting systematic and holistic measures, except for a few ineffective strategy papers and legal regulations. Therefore, Turkey must immediately design a new policy agenda in conformity with its traditional and historical advantages. Revitalizing the intergenerational solidarity bonds, in this regard, may be the best cost-effective solution to complement formal measures in the provision of social protection and in the process of active ageing. However, this traditional protection net is under attack of increasingly transforming socioeconomic conditions. Consequently, as one of the most rapidly ageing countries in the world, Turkey should immediately stimulate studies and debates over a healthy, functional, and effective ageing period and caring issues. Otherwise, governments will be blindsided by the socioeconomic, psychological, cultural, and physiological problems related to the ageing process. In the light of these facts, the main purpose of this study is to discuss policy recommendations to create a self-sufficient ageing period for older adults in the context of Turkish case.
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The chapters show a wealth of methodological approaches to the perception of social policy and its tools. In the texts there are issues related to the idea of active ageing, discrimination against older people in the workplace, comparability of solutions friendly to employment of older adults in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia as well as focused on the importance of educational forms (universities of the third age, senior clubs, folk high schools, and other non-formal solutions) determining an active life in old age.
This monograph also attempted to answer the question regarding how to transfer the idea of intergenerational learning into the realm of practice. This issue complements the chapter on the implementation of intergenerational programs in institutions providing long-term care support. The book also outlines a public policy on ageing in the perspective of the changes over the last few decades (Slovenia) and the case demonstrating solutions to accelerate self-reliance as a key to active ageing (Turkey).
We hope that seventh volume of our series will be an intellectual stimulus for further international research on change in social policy and will contribute to the dissemination of best practices as well as contribute to positive social change.