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    PREVALENCE OF FALLS AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS AMONG AGED POPULATION: COMMUNITY BASED COSS-SECTIONAL STUDY FROM TURKEY
    (Natl Inst Public Health, 2015) Cevizci, Sibel; Uluocak, Seref; Aslan, Cumhur; Gokulu, Gokhan; Bilir, Olgun; Bakar, Coskun
    Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence and risk factors of falls among persons aged 65 years and older in Canakkale, Turkey. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted between May September 2013. A total of 1,001 elderly living in Canakkale city centre were included into our study. The research was carried out with face-to-face interviews and survey forms. The survey form consists of seven sections: demographic characteristics, significance of ageing, daily activities, quality of life and social network in old age, use of health services and health problems, bad habits, and the European Health Impact Scale. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS software version 19.0. For data investigation the chi-square and logistic regression analyses were used. Results: The prevalence of falls at home or outside was 32.1% among elderly in the last six months period. The prevalence of falling for women at home as well as outside was statistically significantly higher than for men (p < 0.05). According to multivariate analysis results the risk of falling at home or outside was increased by 2.7 times in women (95% CI: 1.90-3.75), by 2.1 times in those who cannot take care of themselves (95% CI: 1.33-3.29), and by 1.7 times in those who have low quality of life (95% CI: 1.24-2.43). Conclusions: This community based cross-sectional study showed that prevalence of falling was high in aged persons living in centre of Canakkale located in the western part of Turkey. Moreover, the risk was increased in women, those who cannot take care for themselves, and those with low standard of living.
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    RELATIONAL SOCIOLOGY MODELS' POSSIBLE EXPANSIONS IN SOCIOLOGY PRACTICE AND REFLEXIVITY IN TURKEY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF SUBSTANTIALISM AND RELATIONALITY DICHOTOMY
    (Istanbul Univ, Methodology & Sociology Research Center, 2016) Uluocak, Seref
    Discussions on dichotomic notion couples which demostrate various ontological, epistemological and methodological positionings like agency - structure, subject - object, induction - deduction, causality-reflexivity, micro - macro or explanation - interpretation have been witnessed for a long time in sociology literature. Among these discussions, various approaches, which are more often-heard nowadays, under the title of relational sociology which questions if the social world consists of the substances or processes - therefore relations - and suggests that everything is relational have started to gain more importance. Within the scope of this research which focuses on the ideas of social scientists on the ideal type models relating to ontological and epistemological differentiations, it has seen that the main problematic about differentiations in relational sociology centres upon whether the individuals - as living creatures-get in contact with social structures, institutions and cultures and whether some relation types - relational perspectives-can be built as explanatory mechanisms between the individuals and the reified patterns of social life empirically and logically. It has been thought that in todays Turkey, a polity based sociology which historically articulated to normative politics and failed to develop its own autonomous capital types because of the political interferences has been giving its place to a much more relational and freedom based sociological perspective. Thus, a sociology of sociology which leads sociological reason questioning itself with reflexivity rather than functioning instrumentally has started to be mentioned. Hovewer, it seems that the possibility of an autonomous social science which goes beyond the polity based (rather than Socious based) social science practice and social-economic-cultural-political meaning frameworks which maintain this practice continues its existence as a structure problem about allowing social scientists' reflexivity and being able to put this reflexivity into practice.