Cultural Differences in Turkey

complaisant studies Cultural differences between the youth in Turkey and the Netherlands. penn Cibii 012013001 Inhoudsopgave Introduction This project is made for the cultural studies layer and pull up s defecates contain the differences between the younger good deal in Turkey and in the Netherlands. Its common that people go abroad and face with a round of cultural problems. This is because there atomic number 18 a clustering of cultures and they all differ from each other. Sometimes its very difficult for people to understand cultural things that argon not normal fort hem but instead normal for the people of that culture.To understand wherefore thats so difficult we have to look at the differences of 2 cultures. I chose Turkey and the Netherlands because i am from the Netherlands but i have a Turkish identity and i see a lot of differences between the Turkish and the Dutch people. For example i am here with a classmate who is Dutch and from Holland. She is dealing with cult ural differences and sometimes she really doesnt understand that some things ar normal here because in Holland that things wouldnt simulateed. The differences leave alone be measured with the study of Hofstede. Gerard H quitrick hofstede is a dutch social psychologist.His most notable resolve has been in developing cultural dimensions theory. The tlve dimensions atomic number 18 Individualism, masculinity power distance, uncertainty evasion, and long term orientation. He write the books Cultures conseuenses and cultures and organizations. The five dimensions will be discussed in this project to define the differences between the youth in Turkey and the Netherlands. After the five dimensions the mwthodology of study will be explained that includes the participants, methodology and worldlys. After that the findings will be explained with charts and despriction of data.After the findings comes the discussion with the analysis of data and what it means. At the end there wille be a conclusion which will include implications, limitations and further research and a statement. You keister find the reference list and the appendices at the end of the project. Background In this paragraph I am going to explain the study of Hofstede and what all the dimensions mean. there are five dimensions which are seen as criteria to see the differences per culture. These are Power distance, Individualism versus collectivism, Masculinitu versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance and the Long term rientation head.Power Distance This dimension expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a bon ton accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The fundamental issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people. People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further Justification. In societies with low power distance, people strive to equalize the dis tribution ot power and demand justification for inequalities of power. Individualism versus collectivismThe high side of this dimension, called Individualism, can be delimitate as a preference for a loosely-knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves and their immediate families only. Its opposite, Collectivism, represents a preference for a tightly-knit framework in society in which individuals can expect their relatives or members of a particular in-group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. A societys position on this dimension is reflected in whether peoples self-image is defined in terms of l or we. masculinity versus femininity The masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement, heroism, assertiveness and material reward for success. Society at large is more competitive. Its opposite, femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and theatri cal role of life. Society at large is more consensus-oriented. Uncertainty avoidance The uncertainty avoidance dimension expresses the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the time to come can never be known should e try to control the future or Just let it happen? Countries exhibiting unvoiced UAI maintain rigid codes of belief and behaviour and are intolerant of unorthodox behaviour and ideas. Weak I-JAI societies maintain a more relaxed attitude in which drill counts more than principles. The long term orientation The long-term orientation dimension can be taken as dealing with societys search for virtue.Societies with a short-term orientation generally have a strong concern with establishing the absolute Truth. They are normative in their thinking. They exhibit great respect for traditions, a comparatively small propensity to save for the uture, and a fo cus on achieving quick results. In societies with a long-term orientation, people believe that truth depends very much on situation, context and time. They show an ability to change traditions to changed conditions, a strong propensity to save and invest, thriftiness, and perseverance in achieving results.Methodology of study participants, place (preserve anonymity) The participants for this study are the younger people between the ages 18 and 25 in the Netherlands and Turkey. I choose this as the organise group because the younger people travel a lot and have to face the most and sometimes at first with cultural ifferences. They go abroad to go on vacation, to study or to bed in another country. Place Because its limited to 2 countries the places of course are in the Netherlands and Turkey.The place where the call into question is held is on my school in Holland Fontys economische hogeschool Tilburg and my school in Turkey Fatih university in Istanbul. I choose the school bec ause I could find here the best participants who are speaking English and belong to the right chump group. methodology (qualitative/ duodecimal case study, ethnographic etc) In this study there is made qualitative and quantitative research. Quantitative research is made hrough deskresearch and qualitative research are the questions that you cant answer with deskresearch so you need the fieldresearch for.For the fieldresearch I made questionnaires. I decided to hold the questionnairies with 10 persons in each country. So 10 questionnaires in The Netherlands as 10 questionnairies in Turkey. The people who were asked for the questionnaires are all in the age group 18 till 25 and all speak English. I made the questions with multiple choice answers so it will be easy to process the data and make a conclusion. materials data collection instruments (observation, questionnaires) The data ollection instruments are internet, literature and questionnaires.