IX. European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences, Paris

Abstract

Abstract. International Association of Social Science Research-IASSR organized ninth of its conference series as “European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences” themed on February 3-6, 2016, at Paris. The conference president was Çanakkale On Sekiz Mart University, Prof. Dr. Hasan Arslan. The conference was comprised from 79 sessions and nearly 400 presentations to be made in three days. Average of five presentations were planned to be delivered in each session. Twenty one of presentation was planned to be presented in English while fifty eight of them was in Turkish. Since the conference was a social science event, almost all of the studies were related to dynamism, potential and agenda of social science studies in Turkey except some health science related studies. In this point of view, Education Science was the social science discipline which had most amount of session with 19 sessions in the conference. This quantity is a normal situation for Education Faculties which focus on creating teachers in Turkey. On the other hand, Philosophy was represented in the conference with only one session and three presentations therefore this gave a clear understanding about the dynamism, focus and potential of social science studies conducted in Turkey. Firstly, the message of sufficient motivation is not provided for Philosophy science could be understood. Secondly, the result of that thought, interpretation, comprehension and contemplation level of social science studies conducted in Turkey is low could be derived. The authorized bodies in Turkey should give greater attention to this subject could be thought.

Keywords. Paris- IASSR Conference, Social Science, Social Science Development in Turkey.

JEL. A10.