Examination of the Responsibility and Tolerance of Students Raised in Families with Different Cultural Structures

Abstract

This study was carried out with two goals: The first is to demonstrate the predictive progress of value of tolerance by the value of responsibility. The second is to examine the levels of tolerance and responsibility valueof the seventh and eighth grade students in secondary schools who are growing up in families in different cultural structures according to some variables. The study group is comprised of a total of 669 students in the seventh and grades of secondary school. Stratified sampling method is used since the population of the study is wide. Accordingly, students raised in families with different cultural structures such as Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Albanian, Bosnian, Romani (Gypsy), Laz, Georgian, Circassian, Bulgarian immigrant are selected. Thus, the cities of Bursa and Sakarya where majority of these students live along with the cities of İzmir, Van, Bitlis, Kahramanmaraş and Yozgat have been selected as the study area. The individuals were reached via “Fellow Citizen Associations”. Required permits were obtained from the Provincial Directorates of National Education. Individuals in the sample group were selected from among villages where people with the same culture live. In addition, studies were conducted at city centers as well and the students reached were asked which cultural community they belong to. “Tolerance tendency scale” and “responsibility scale” were used in the study as data acquisition tools.

As a result, it was determined that the responsibility value of the students predict the tolerance value at a rate of 29%. In addition, statistically significant differences were determined between the responsibility and tolerance levels of students according to the cultural environment and gender of the students while no difference was determined according to class level.