Gazi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2022
Social service policies
applied to the elderly, disabled people, children and women, who are among the
disadvantaged groups belonging to the 2002-2019 AK Party period, have been
statistically analyzed using Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Hierarchical
Tree (HT) methods. In addition,
Turkey's social service performance for women and people with disabilities
against the European Union was examined statistically with the help of Cluster
Analysis. When both national and international literature are evaluated, this
thesis study is the first in terms of statistically examining the social
service policies applied to these groups during the AK Party 2002-2019 period
and comparing Turkey's performance in social services against the EU, filling
the current gap in the literature.
In
the study, first of all, social work was discussed conceptually and
theoretically. Later, social work theories were extensively explained. Finally,
in the first part, social work and economics relationship was examined in the
elderly, disabled people, women and children who are disadvantaged groups. In
the second part, social work policies applied in Turkey for the elderly,
children, women and people with disabilities are discussed. In the third part, In the
third chapter, the 2002-2019 AK Party period, the topology of social services
applied to women, the elderly, the disabled people and children, is analyzed by
MST and HT, one of the hierarchical structure methods. In the last chapter, the social services
applied by Turkey and EU countries to women and people with disabilities were
examined using basic components and hierarchical (progressive) clustering
methods from multi-variable statistical analysis methods.
During the 2002-2019 AK Party period, it was determined
that there is a separate correlation between the variables examined within the
scope of social services applied to women, the disabled people, the elderly and
children, and individual MST and HT were obtained for each. In addition, Turkey was found to rank 24th
and 5th in terms of disabilities compared to the order of development between
EU countries and women's social service indicators.