BİLİMSEL BİLGİLERİN ÜRETİLME SÜRECİ: AKADEMİSYENLER ARASINDAKİ İNFORMAL YAPILAR

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the informal relationships that are effective in making decisions about career and scientific work of academicians who work in our universities. For the realization of this study, semi-structured interview form was used, interviews were done with totally 17 academicians who was chosen from 6 different faculties and these interviews were taken voice recording. For the relevant sample, academicians working areas, hierarchical diversity and gender diversity were considered. The obtained raw data was investigated with content analysis. As a result of analysis, the most important factor to determine of academicians working areas were found to be advisor. At the same time, family and social environment of academicians have also concluded that plays a role in decisions related to their academic careers.