Bir sosyal politika olarak evlat edindirmenin toplumsal direnç kaynakları

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: İstanbul Ticaret University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, SOSYOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI, Turkey

Approval Date: 2018

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: HATİCE GÖKCE

Supervisor: DOĞAN NECMETTİN

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

In this study, It is considered that the state is not effective to create social awareness about and to promote the subject of providing family support to the children in need of care under its protection through adoption and the policies relating to the matter could be improved and the results could be enhanced via revealing the historical, religious, social, traditional and psycological resistances that the developped policies regarding to the subject has encountered. It can be said that this research is important in terms of the investigation of the effects of the social norms and judgments over the adoption processes and the resistance they bring to the scene; the social policy proposal that can be developed in the direction of the findings obtained. In-depth interviews conducted in the study are important to verify or falsify hypotheses. If the hypotheses are confirmed, it is planned that in the light of the data obtained from the in-depth interviews, it is planned to be a research with the quality of recommendation for the application of social policies towards the adoption process and a study which encourages the consideration of social values and norms. The purpose of this study is to reveal the social, cultural and especially religious norms and values that affect the adoption process negatively. In this regard, depth interviews have been done with the families who have had attempted adoption. The aforesaid objectives have been tried to be accomplished through binding the obtained data and various independent variables. It is asserted in this study that the lineage, social status and religious discourses still are effective on the adoption processes even though the effects are decreasing. Key words: Child under the legal protection, child in need of protection, adoption, foster child, protective family, labeling, identity