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DEVELOPING LANGUAGE PLANNING IN TURKEY

The Case of Syrian Refugee Students IN Background Language planning is a common problem among multilingual societies Western countries claim that migrants will assimilate into their new society and they have to speak that new language in order to get into the society they live but Ferguson argues that the size of minority residential communities enables that many of their members will be able to live out their lives using only or predominantly the minority language and also by the tendency of migrants to maintain closer and more regular connections with their countries of origin Ferguson 2006 So language planning has to be done in multilingual countries in order to avoid adaptation problems and provide prosperity and unity in the country A great number of studies have been done concerning language planning Some of them achieved their goals on the other side some of these studies failed Gonzalez mentions failure of language planning in Philippines in his research He states that 120 mutually unintelligible Philippine languages in use the islands 99 of population speak Filipino and more than 50 know English 




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Dimensional Approach of Early Feminist Ideology

Despite moving away from the one-dimensional approach of early feminist ideology and now addressing socioeconomic explanations of IPV many critics still reject the feminist explanation and argue that gender inequality is just one of the numerous variables which can cause IPV Kaur and Garg 2008 Many theorists instead propose a family conflict theory when attempting to explain the causation of IPV Gelles 1985 Family conflict theories points toward the fact not all men are violent within societies experiencing high levels of gender inequality they instead suggest factors such as age employment income and status play important roles in the causation of IPV Lawson 2012 Family conflict theories use social structuralism when attempting to explain the causation of IPV they suggest that violence occurs due to institutionalized variations among socioeconomic status gender and ethnicity divisions Gelles 1985 Within family conflict theories IPV is seen as the outcome of a pileup of stressors associated with a perceived excess of demands over resources Benson et al 2002 p 794 Despite the increasing popularity of family conflict and feminist theories one of the very first sociological explanations of IPV was goode s 1971 resource theory Goode proposed that the balance between partners is dependent upon the contribution each make towards a relationship Gelles 1980 Goode suggests that violence and force is used as a tool to reclaim power within a relationship when offering very little resources towards it Gelles 1980

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