Different identities and value preferences

Abstract

This study analyzes attitudes of different ethnic identities from ethnic, religious and socio-cultural aspects. The study is also concerned with the diversity of general attitudes of ethnic identities that forms a rich structure with different ethnic groups and different components within boundaries of Turkey. Determining dimensions of shared ethnic, religious and socio-cultural identities and attitudes of these identities particularly from the point of values will provide us with a clearer and comparative picture of preferences of Turkey’s rich mosaic that includes various groups. The study aims to measure with validity and reliability tests attitudes of ethnic groups inhabiting Madin Province. Preparing points of measurement, consulting with experts for content validity, trial practice, conducting validity and reliability tests are the steps followed during the development of the measurement instrument. The first section of the two-part questionnaire form contains information on socio-demographic details of participants, while the second section includes preferences that measures value attitudes of participants with certain values. SPSS 17.0 software has been used to analyze data. Various statistical techniques have been utilized in the research and in the evaluation of the data.