{"title":"The Socio-Political Enigma: The State","authors":"I. Onder","doi":"10.37241/JATSS.2020.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37241/JATSS.2020.15","url":null,"abstract":"The state is a multifaceted administrative-political organization that has various functions in different economic systems. Therefore, a simple definition for the state cannot be given in the face of its different role in different economic systems as well as the polymorphic nature it displays to fulfill its capital accumulation function in capitalism. Confined to its role in the capitalist system, two main functions of the state can be discerned: contribution to capital accumulation and legitimization of the system. That the state needs tax revenue to perform its duties makes it necessary for the state to favor capital to foster economic activity. However, the process of capital accumulation gives rise to “public nuisance” and social harm to some groups in the society. To have a peaceful society and secure a social and political system, the second function of the state takes over the job of putting some measures in effect to legitimize the system. Thus, the state is burdened by two opposing and mutually exclusive public functions that are badly needed in capitalism to have a relatively healthy society. Therefore, the state appears as if it is an enigma in terms of its various functions in different systems and polymorphic nature, especially in capitalism.","PeriodicalId":145132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied and Theoretical Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131250853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good Enough for Jazz: Vietnam s Road to Be an Emerging Market","authors":"Omer Faruk Ozkilinc, Basak Özcan","doi":"10.37241/JATSS.2020.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37241/JATSS.2020.19","url":null,"abstract":"In political economic studies, it is widely discussed the development patterns of most-income countries, especially the ones which are seen, once upon a time, as the “third-world” countries such as Japan, South Korea, China. Although their stories are charming and interesting, for us, the processes that these countries went through constitute very complex and hard-to-believe images for other countries in which, even in today, poverty is literally a crucial problem. On the other hand, there are stories in the economic history which offer, arguably, simpler and trackable ways of development for the countries which are already being suffered by hunger, economic instability such as Sub-Saharan African countries and closed economies of Asia. Vietnam, as an old low-income country, constitutes a hopeful adaptable example to deal with the “scarcity-generating mechanisms” of “under-developed” countries. In this paper, firstly, we are going to describe briefly what were the mechanisms that generate poverty in Vietnam. Then, we will look to how and which legislative, economic regulations and institutions converted a closed, interventionist economy into a coordinated export-oriented one which brought economic growth. Lastly, we will try to understand implications of this economic success and discuss in which ways Vietnam’s road to be an emerging market can constitute a sample for other low-income countries.","PeriodicalId":145132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied and Theoretical Social Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126060471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid-19 Virüsünün Hane Halkı Üzerine Etkisi: Mersin ilinin Diğer İllerle Karşılaştırmalı Analizi","authors":"Erkan Aktaş","doi":"10.37241/JATSS.2020.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37241/JATSS.2020.16","url":null,"abstract":"Kuresel bir salgina donusen Covid-19 virusu yalnizca saglik krizi degil, ekonomik ve politik krizlere de donusmektedir. Kuresellesme seviyesi salgini kuresel salgin (pandemi) haline hizla getirmistir. Covid-19 virusu, II. Dunya Savasi’ndan sonra yasanan en buyuk kuresel ekonomik krize donusme tehlikesini beraberinde getirmistir. Salginla mucadelede olusturulacak politikalar, ulkelerin ekonomik sureclerini cok onemli oranda etkileyecektir. \u0000Salginin ekonomik etkisini daha ayrintili incelemek, ekonomi politikasi icin onemli bir referans olacaktir. Bu calismanin amaci, Covid-19 virusunun Mersin’de 2020 yilinin Nisan ve Mayis aylarinda hanelerin ekonomik etkilerini incelemektir. Bu calismada internet ortaminda 1058 hane ile anket yapildi. Ankete Katilanlarin %40’ini (421 hane) Mersin’de yasayan haneler olusmaktadir. Ayni zamanda toplam 55 farkli ilden katilimi saglandigi icin Mersin ilinin diger illerle karsilastirma imkâni saglamaktadir. \u0000Yapilan analiz sonucu, Mersin ilinde Covid-19 sonrasi hanelerin %55,1’inde gelir kaybi oldugu belirtilmistir. Covid-19 oncesi Mersin’de genis issizlik orani yaklasik %23 olarak hesaplanirken, Covid-19 sonrasi bu oran %33,3’e yukselmistir. Mersin ilindeki Covid-19 sonrasi issizlik artisi ankete katilan diger iller ortalamasindan daha yuksek olmustur. Pandemi ile birlikte, istidamin onemli oranda yukunu tasiyan KOBI’lerle ilgili yeni ekonomik paketlerin aciklanmasi issizlikle mucadelede ciddi destek olacaktir. Bu desteklerin, ozellikle istihdam yukunu artiracak sektor ve bolgelere gore farklilasmasi, pandemi sonrasi ulkede resesyon riskini de azaltabilir.","PeriodicalId":145132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied and Theoretical Social Sciences","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123621890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ekmek Tüketim Davranışını Etkileyen Faktörler: Mersin İli Örneği","authors":"Erkan Aktaş, İnci Z. Aygün, Buğçe Başargan","doi":"10.37241/jatss.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37241/jatss.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, bread consumption behaviors of households in Mersin were investigated. For this purpose, a face-to-face survey was conducted with 539 households living in the urban area of Mersin. The aim of this study is to examine various factors that affect bread consumption behavior and to examine how effective they are in bread consumption. In this context, bread consumption of households in Mersin was examined; education, age, height-weight index, number of households and income were considered as independent variables. There was a negative correlation between education and age variables and bread consumption; The relationship between height-weight index, household number and income and bread consumption was found to be positive. In this study, it is especially important to correlate height-weight index with bread consumption. Working-Leser Model was used in the analysis of the study. According to the results of the study, income elasticity of bread was estimated as 0,29.","PeriodicalId":145132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied and Theoretical Social Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126825461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}