Tolga Tezcan's Master's Thesis at TÜSSİDE Social Research Unit was deemed worthy of Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas Social Policy Award
Ankara University Social Policy Research and Implementation Center awarded Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas Social Policy Prize to Tolga Tezcan's master's thesis written in METU Social Policy Department, who works at TÜSSİDE Social Research Unit.
Tolga Tezcan, who works on disability and social policy at TÜSSİDE Social Research Unit, has focused on the same theme in his academic studies and was deemed worthy of the award named after Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas, one of the pioneers of the social policy discipline in Turkey, former Minister of Labor and Dean of SBF.
The jury consisting of Prof. Dr. Ahmet Makal, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Selamoğlu, Prof. Dr. Gülay Toksöz, Prof. Dr. Ömer Zühtü Alan and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aziz Çelik justified the award as follows:
The thesis titled "Discrimination Experienced by People with Disabilities Working in the Public Sector as a 'Field of Institutional Discrimination' aims to serve the empowerment of people with disabilities who experience discrimination in various areas of life, including employment, by drawing attention to the deep difference between the medical model and the social model in the treatment of disability, and by putting the social model that sees the problem as social structures in contrast to the medical model that sees the problem as the disabled. The thesis, which is competent in terms of internal systematics and consistency in its theoretical framework, conceptual discussion and evaluation of the findings, discusses the discrimination experienced by persons with disabilities starting from their job search processes and the reasons for choosing public sector employment. The thesis systematically and in detail evaluates the characteristics of public sector employment and the discrimination encountered, as well as the oppression and discrimination experienced in the private sector based on previous work experiences, and makes some suggestions to improve the situation of persons with disabilities. Our jury deemed the thesis worthy of the award due to all these positive qualities".
