Posted on behalf of David Zeitlyn.  I found this very 
interesting, if somewhat depressing...

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: David Zeitlyn [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 May 2002 16:21

>Student feedback on WoS
>
>The following material comes from a first year course taught in the
>anthropology department at UKC.
>The assignment is due early in the second term by which time the
>students have had the chance to go to  courses run by
>library/information services staff. They and have also had one
>lecture about the general problems of doing searches on the web and
>in more structured environments such as
>WoS.
>
>
>Instructions given to students:
>
>Stirling work (30% of the Lent mark)
>Choose one of the following topics with associated articles by Prof.
>Paul Stirling, which are on-line
>(http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Stirling/Papers/):
>
>1) Discuss social change at the different levels dealt with in the
>three articles:
>Structural Changes in Middle East Society
>Growth and Changes: Speed Scale Complexity
>Labour Migration and Changes in Anatolia
>
>2) Discuss notions of public versus private morality, the role of
>the state, and informal controls
>A Death and a Youth Club: Feuding in a Turkish Village
>Impartiality and Personal Morality
>Land, Marriage, and the Law in Turkish Villages
>
>3) Discuss the relationship of wealth and power
>Social Ranking in a Turkish Village
>Land, Marriage, and the Law in Turkish Villages
>Labour Migration and Changes in Anatolia
>
>Begin your work with an examination of literature about the
>theoretical issue involved. Use Web of Science, and list the key
>words for your search. Include conclusions and the kinds of
>supporting evidence offered. In the case of at least one of the
>articles listed, material from the field notes is important. Search
>the field notes and discuss this material.
>
>The assessment should consist of three files, index.html, essay.html
>and notes.html, all inside a folder named 'stirling'. Your home page
>should be linked to index.html, which should in turn be linked to
>essay.html and notes.html. As the names suggest, essay.html should
>contain your finished essay, while notes.html should contain your
>working notes.
>
>Your notes should include at least the following:
>working note 1: Begin with WoS search, the key words you used.
>Comment on their viability. Were initial words too broad, too
>narrow? What was most useful?
>
>
>A sample of 23 follows (this excludes those who did not bother with
>the assignment or who incorrectly linked their page). The total on
>course = 34
>
>--------
>
>working note 1.
>
>impossible to find my way with WoS search
>
>-----
>Working notes 1.
>
>I began by searching Web of Science (wos.mimas.ac.uk/). I typed in
>many differnt words to search for, here they are and the results:
>
>WEALTH 4944 matches
>
>POWER 41594 matches
>
>WEALTH and POWER 305 matches
>
>SOCIAL RANKING 16 matches
>
>LAND 13943 matches
>
>MARRIAGE 7822 matches
>
>LAW 40837 matches
>
>LABOUR MIGRATION 89 matches
>
>I then combined all these words in all the differnet ways i could,
>but none of the matches were that relivant. Most of the searches
>were too broad, but when i narrowed the searches down, the articles
>were too specific, but not relivant to Stirling or Turkey.
>
>Next i decided to try outhttp://www.bids.ac.uk/. I typed in the same
>searches as i did in wos. However bids had even more articles, and a
>wider range of topics, this made them even less relevant.
>
>I then tried http://www.jstor.org. This too had too many articles to
>wade through, and when i did look through them, the topics were too
>wide and not specific enough. I tried to limit the searches and
>narrow them down, but thesearch still came up with over 200 related
>articles.
>
>On yahoo.com I tyed in 'Turkish villages', but all of the results
>were tourist information, and therefore they were of no use to me.
>-------
>Working Note 1
>
>
>
>I began my search on the Web of Science and I chose the word
>morality and the term informal controls. I was hoping to gain some
>information relating to the theoretical issue involved and also find
>some literature which complimented the articles I have read :
>
>A Death and a Youth Club: Feuding in a Turkish Village
>
>Impartiality and Personal Morality
>
>Land, Marriage, and the Law in Turkish Villages
>
>I found that the sheer volume of results made it an impractical way
>to find relevant information and although some of the titles looked
>interesting I found it hard to know where to begin. I felt that the
>Web of Science may have been of more use to me if I had been
>conducting a more in-depth piece of work over a longer period of
>time. I have included below an example of the results I obtained
>below :
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Easy Search Results--Summary
>Topic=morality; Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI; Timespan=All
>Years; (sorted by latest date)
>
>
>Page 1 (Articles 1 -- 10):
>[ 1 |  2 . . .
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Use the checkboxes to add individual articles to the Marked List. Be
>sure to click SUBMIT MARKS button before leaving page.
>
>Merchant J
>The hidden agenda of George W. Bush: The conservative Right and the
>'politics of morality'
>REV FR ETUD AMER (90): 80-94 OCT 2001
>Stark R
>Reconceptualizing religion, magic, and science
>REV RELIG RES 43 (2): 101-120 DEC 2001
>Asbring P, Narvanen AL
>Women's experiences of stigma in relation to chronic fatigue
>syndrome and fibromyalgia
>QUAL HEALTH RES 12 (2): 148-160 FEB 2002
>Hohr H
>Does beauty matter in education? Friedrich Schiller's neo-humanistic
approach
>J CURRICULUM STUD 34 (1): 59-75 JAN 2002
>Moreno P, Narotzky S
>Forgotten reciprocity: Negative reciprocity, morality and social
reproduction
>HISPANIA (204): 127-160 JAN-APR 2000
>Raissiguier C
>The dignity of working men: Morality and the boundaries of race,
>class, and immigration
>GENDER SOC 16 (1): 136-137 FEB 2002
>McLendon MK, Eddings S
>Direct democracy and higher education: The state ballot as an
>instrument of higher education policy making
>EDUC POLICY 16 (1): 193-218 JAN-MAR 2002
>Matamoro B
>Marriage and morality
>CUADERNOS HISPANOAM (617): 143-144 NOV 2001
>Ybarra O
>When first impressions don't last: The role of isolation and
>adaptation processes in the revision of evaluative impressions
>SOC COGNITION 19 (5): 491-520 OCT 2001
>Wong DB
>Fieldwork in familiar places: Morality, culture, & philosophy
>PHILOS PHENOMEN RES 63 (3): 716-720 NOV 2001
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>Page 1 (Articles 1 -- 10):
>[ 1 |  2 |     3 |     4 |     5 |     6 |     7 |     8 |     9 |     10 ]
>5534 of 20657732 documents matched the query. (100 shown)
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Acceptable Use Policy
>
>Copyright © 2002 Institute for Scientific Information
>
>
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>Easy Search Results--SummaryTopic=informal controls;
>Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI; Timespan=All Years; (sorted by
>latest date)
>
>
>Page 2 (Articles 11 -- 14):
>[ 1 |  2 ]
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Use the checkboxes to add individual articles to the Marked List. Be
>sure to click SUBMIT MARKS button before leaving page.
>
>JAWORSKI BJ, STATHAKOPOULOS V, KRISHNAN HS
>CONTROL COMBINATIONS IN MARKETING - CONCEPTUAL-FRAMEWORK AND
>EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE
>J MARKETING 57 (1): 57-69 JAN 1993
>SHERMAN LW, SMITH DA, SCHMIDT JD, et al.
>CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND STAKE IN CONFORMITY - LEGAL AND INFORMAL
>CONTROL OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
>AM SOCIOL REV 57 (5): 680-690 OCT 1992
>LUSCH RF, JAWORSKI BJ
>MANAGEMENT CONTROLS, ROLE STRESS, AND RETAIL STORE MANAGER PERFORMANCE
>J RETAILING 67 (4): 397-419 WIN 1991
>ERICKSON PG
>LIVING WITH PROHIBITION - REGULAR CANNABIS USERS, LEGAL SANCTIONS,
>AND INFORMAL CONTROLS
>INT J ADDICT 24 (3): 175-188 1989
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>Page 2 (Articles 11 -- 14):
>[ 1 |  2 ]
>14 of 20657732 documents matched the query.
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>Acceptable Use Policy
>
>Copyright © 2002 Institute for Scientific Information
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>
>
>Along with the WoS searches I conducted I also visited the
>Anthropological Index Online. I only conducted one search and the
>term I used was : Turkey. Iwas aware how broad a term this is but
>was interested to see if anything useful camr up. I recieved 27
>recordes which contained my search terms, here are a few of them :
>
>E Tuncbliek, I Koc(1994) Consaguineous marriage in Turkey and its
>impact on fertility and
>
>mortality
>
>
>Frederic C Shorter(1985) The Population of Turkey after the war of
>independence
>
>International Journal of Middle East studies 17 pp.417-41
>
>
>Although many of the texts seemed useful at first glance, the
>majority were completely unrelated and of little use to the specific
>areas which I am researching.
>
>I also used the CSAC Anthroplogy Bibliography which appeared to give
>me more refined matches, I enterd informal controls and found two
>matches, despite not being able to use them directly I found this
>site to be easier to use with more relevant matches available.
>------
>Working note one - Web of Science search-
>Key words and their usefulness:
>* Wealth and Power in a Turkish village
>No articles found.
>Too specialised.
>
>* Wealth and Power in Turkey
>No articles found.
>Too specialised.
>
>* Turkish villages
>There was one Stirling article on Culture and Economy, but it is
>irrelevant since I am trying to find articles other than Stirling.
>There was one more article that came up on urban aquisition
>strategies in the case of 2 turkish villages, again it was not of
>use for my topic of study.
>
>* Wealth and power
>These were the best key words overall.
>This was a very broad search and many articles came up but they were
>very wide ranging. It covered topics from growth in industry to
>testing episodic memory in animals so I really had to trawl through
>all the articles to find one of relevance.However, a lot of the
>articles had no overview, only the title was given and so this was
>not much use at all. Countries such as provincial Mexico and China
>came up but none that I could assosiate or compare with the case of
>Turkey. I found only one article that may be of some use: Village
>politics: heterogenity , leadership and collective action by Veldeld
>in the Journal of Development Studies. However, It was not avalible
>in the library or Jstor and when I looked on the website
>www.frankcass.com, that contains articles on the journal of
>development studies, they only had a overview of the article, which
>due to it's size was not overly helpful.
>
>* Authority and Power
>Too broad again.
>
>* Power
>Very broad ranging again.
>
>* Hierachy in Turkey
>No articles found.
>
>* Social positions
>Very broad.
>
>Conclusion:
>I found the web of Science to be quite unhelpful. Despite being easy
>to use, it is time consuming looking through all the articles trying
>to find one of relevance and often to no avail. I also found it very
>unhelpful when you were given a title of an article but no overview
>of what it was about and I therefore was unsure of whether or not
>the article would be of use.
>-----
>
>
>Web Of Science Searches:
>
>"Easy Search" sort ed by relevance:
>
>Aim:
>Go for the crux of the matter.
>
>Term
>Power AND Wealth AND Turkey
>
>Found:
>Power and influence: A theoretical bridge
>Willer D, Lovaglia MJ, Markovsky B
>SOCIAL FORCES
>76 (2): 571-603 DEC 1997
>
>Possible quote:
>"hypothesize that influence produces power" Willer D, Lovaglia MJ,
Markovsky B
>
>
>Found:
>Evrendilek F, Doygun H
>Assessing major ecosystem types and the challenge of sustainability in
Turkey
>ENVIRON MANAGE 26 (5): 479-489 NOV 2000
>
>Found:
>Erman T
>The impact of migration on Turkish rural women - Four emergent patterns
>GENDER SOC 12 (2): 146-167 APR 1998
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>Found this:
>
>Abstract:
>This article explores the diverse experiences of Turkish rural
>migrant women in the city and how city living enters the definition
>of gender and the distribution of power in the migrant household It
>draws on data collected in an ethnographic study of migrants in
>Ankara, Turkey and examines whether this migration improves or
>deteriorates migrant women's position in the family. Specifically,
>it identifies four groups of migrant women and speculates an some of
>the factors that shape their diverse experiences. The data reveal
>that city living affects the position of migrant women to varying
>degrees, depending on their particular Islamic sect; the demands
>made on them to assure family survival and achievement; and to same
>extent, their age, socioeconomic status, education af level,
>position in the life cycle, and the status and economic wealth of
>the wife's family and the wife's relationship with it.
>
>
>
>All women rank lower than all men in the village. An eight year old
>boy will order his sister around like an adult man will order his
>widowed mother. Social segregation of the sexes is so high that
>women and men will seldom interact outside their circle of close
>kin. Village affairs are controlled by men almost entirely.The
>position of a man in his household influences his position in the
>village society of adult males.
>
>
>
>
>Comments:
>
>Focused on women specifically. Striling largely omitted out women in
>his 3 articles. I'm misogynist, so can't be bothered to include.
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>Aim:
>The power of synonmys:
>
>Search:
>Power AND Wealth AND Anatolia
>
>Found:
>
>Nothing!
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>Aim:
>Transformational linguisitcs again...all hail Noam. Ok. Maybe not.
>Just synonyms. Anyway.
>
>Search:
>
>Prestige AND money AND Turkey
>
>Found:
>
>
>Nowt.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>Aim:
>Lose focus to find generalities...
>
>Search:
>
>Prestige AND wealth
>
>Found:
>10 articles.
>
>Comments:
>
>
>Generally in unrelated geographies, but that's to be
>expected...mayhap I could extrapolate conclusions or trends in these
>other articles for use in my essay.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>Aim:
>
>Generalities again.
>
>Search:
>
>Power AND Money
>
>Found
>
>About 100. Lots of hits...some relevant...too many in fact.
>
>Comments:
>
>Moralities: Sex, money and power in the twenty-first century
>TLS-TIMES LIT SUPPL (5152): 8-9 DEC 28 2001
>
>Sounds promsiing...minus the sex bit though.
>
>
>
>Money and power in Europe by Kaelberer M
>Josselin D
>MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
>
>
>That too.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>Aim:
>
>That term was good. See if can narrow down and get lucky.
>
>Search:
>Power AND money AND Turkey
>
>
>4 articles.
>
>Comments:
>
>
>Shafik N
>The Mediterranean debt crescent: Money and power in Algeria, Egypt,
>Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey - Henry,CM
>MIDDLE EAST J 51 (1): 139-140 WIN 1997
>
>
>
>Great! BUT can't access the DAMNED THING!
>
>
>Hm. One is too economic for my tastes...sorry Prof Stirling. I know
>one you liked to say that economics is the bedrock of society, but I
>am no economist.
>----
>Working note 1
>
>My initial search used the terms 'morality,' 'state,' and 'control',
>but seeing as I searched within all journals (inc. the political
>science one) I found this gave me a series of articles almost
>Orwellian in their flavour, so I used phrases such as 'role of
>state' and 'public private morality' on their own and found this to
>be much more useful. This, however, still turned up an unfeasably
>large no. of hits, and when 'Turkey' or some such modifier was used
>it reduced them to an unfeasably small no of articles etc. The best
>method that I found was to do a broad initial search, then to keep
>refining the results until something recongnisable as useful
>appeared.
>-----
>Working note 1:
>
>
>Web of Science search:
>
>
>I did a search on the Web of science website for the theoretical
>issues of wealth and power, but could not find anyting of particular
>relevence to Turkey.
>
>
>I searched the words 'wealth and power' which got me 358 matches but
>one relevant to Turkey. I mainly got articles concerning education
>and political organisations.
>
>'Wealth in Turkey' recieved no articles at all.
>
>'Social Ranking in Turkey' also recieved no articles.
>
>'Power in Turkey' produced 80 articles, most of which were about
>politics in Turkey , democracy, the womens movement and Islam. The
>articles were also aout the economy and the cold war etc.
>
>Two of the articles appeared to have some relevance to the essay;
>
>Schonpflug, U (2001)"Decision making influence in a family. A
>comparison of Turkish families in Germany and in Turkey," Journal of
>Comparative Family Sudies,
>
>I could not access this article, but I was able to read a summary of
>it. The article stated that in turkish society, the more educated
>the father, the less powerful he was percieved by his sons. Sons
>attributed more power to themselves in Germnay and less power to
>their parents in Turkey.
>
>The second article I found that may be of some relevence was;
>
>Il Can Sm (1994), "Peasant Struggles and Social Change - Migration,
>Household and Gender in a Rural Turkish Society." International
>Migration Review,pp 554 - 579
>
>Again I was unable to access this article, but I could read the
>summary. The article argued that most studies viewed migration as an
>adaptation to persistant unemployment or a result of pressure in the
>social relations of production. However these studies overlooked
>rural culture and power in determining conditions for seasonal
>migration asn the effects on social relations. Migration reduced the
>dominion of landlords while creating internal household
>differentiation and genered hierarchies.
>-----
>Working Notes.
>
>Notes 1:
>
>
>I started by searching the Web of science for relevant articles
>about the relationship of power and wealth in Turkey, I used key
>words as: Power,wealth and Turkey. And made combinations of these
>three to narrow the results down. I came up with some relevant
>articles but when I looked in the library or at jstor they were not
>there. I also used words as social ranking and hierarchy. I found
>one article that I thought would be relevant and was available in
>the library. I think that the web of science probably is a very
>helpful tool when you have got more places to actually find the
>articles. But because we are in our first year and haven't got much
>places (yet) to find our articles I didn't think the Web of science
>was of much use for me.
>
>The article that I did find and did use was:
>
>Peasant struggles and social change- migration, households and
>gender in a rural Turkish society (Ilcan, S.M, International migration
>review 28 (3): 554-579 Fal 1994)
>
>
>----
>Working notes 1
>
>First I did a search on Web of Science http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/ I
>typed in 'Wealth and Power' and received thousands of hits, I tried
>to narrow it down by limiting the time period but I still received
>thousands. At this point I did not want to be more specific as I was
>looking for articles about the general theoretical issue. I tried
>typing in 'wealth' and 'power' separately, this still generated many
>hits, all of which were of no particular relevance.
>
>
>Next I tried a different bibliographic service: Bids
>http://www.bids.ac.uk/ I typed in 'wealth and power' and set the
>limits from the years of 1980-2002, I got 44 hits, I was pleased
>with the results as there was not thousands of article titles to
>sift through, many of the article titles were repeated and some were
>in a foreign language. This made it easy to narrow my findings down
>to six articles which looked fairly relevant:
>
>
>1
>
>Wealth and power in provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the late
>colony to the revolution Chowning M, VanYoung Journal of social
>history, Fall 2001, Vol.35, No.1, pp.219-220
>
>2
>
>The rise of the virtual state: wealth and power in the coming
>century (review) Rosecrance R.and Goldgeier J.M International
>studies review, Spring 2001, Vol.3, No.1, pp.153-155
>
>3
>
>The olive boom. Oil surpluses, wealth and power in Roman
>Tripolitania Mattingly D.J. Libyan studies, 1988, Vol.19, pp.21-41
>
>4
>
>Kinship and the quest for wealth and power as influences on conflict
>in the Punjab, 1839-1845 Johnson R.C.and Johnson S.B. Evolution and
>human behavior, Sep 1997, Vol.18, No.5, pp.341-348
>
>5
>
>Beads and money: notes toward a theory of wealth and power Graeber
>D. American ethnologist, Feb 1996, Vol.23, No.1, pp.4-24
>
>6
>
>Waiwai women - the basis of wealth and power Mentore G.P Man., 1987,
>Vol.22, No.3, pp.511-527
>
>I then set about trying to find these articles, which proved to be
>more difficult than I imagined. I used the University's library web
>site bibliographic services:
>http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/netinfo/bibs.htm
>
>and also the online resources information:
>
>http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/netinfo/extservs/
>
>Default.htm
>
>I don't know whether I was being hopeless or not but I only managed
>to track down two of these articles,one I found in the library:
>
>1 Beads and money: notes toward a theory of wealth and power Graeber
>D. American ethnologist
>
>and the other I found by JSTOR http://uk.jstor.org/journals/00251496.html:
>
>2 Waiwai women - the basis of wealth and power Mentore G.P Man
>
>As it turned out I only managed to read the first cited before
>writing the essay, this however, did seem the most relevant out of
>the two. I managed to read the second after writing the essay when I
>had finally figured out how to print off JSTOR articles! It's tricky
>for a IT dinosaur such as myself!
>
>
>-----
>
>Working note 1:
>
>Preparing to write the essay on the topic: Public versus private
>morality, the role of the state, and informal controls based on the
>Stirling articles, I first researched the theoretical issues on Web
>of Science. The key words I first used were public morality. Web of
>Science came up with 27 articles which seemed vaguely relevant but
>since I wasn't actually able to read these articles online, I
>decided to continue my search on Jstor. Here I also introduced the
>key words public morality and it came up with 200 results.
>Obviously, this was too broad a search. I therefore introduced not
>only public morality but also private morality which resulted in 13
>articles. I skimmed through a few of these and understood the focus
>of my research better. I understood that the issue of public
>morality versus private morality touches many areas such as:
>
>*      Prostitution - The World's Oldest Debate? Prostitution and
>the State in Imperial Japan, 1900-1945 by Sheldon Garon
>*      Abortion - Abortion in Context: Historical Trends and Future
>Changes by Alice S. Rossi and Bhavani Sitaraman
>*      International Relations - The Ethics of Internationalism and
>the Individual by Jacob R. Kantor
>
>This last topic was of extreme interest to me as I also study
>International Relations. I read it and discovered it spoke of how
>after 1918, people were looking to avoid any other wars by
>establishing a world order - internationalism. It was thought you
>could make common rules between different nations that would then be
>respected. I understood the problem of the essay topic at once as it
>meant that these laws would not actually take into account the
>individual values of each nation but try to impose a western view of
>things on others.This article did help me understand the contrast
>between law (private morality) and social values (public morality).
>
>I reread the Stirling articles and found I had a far better
>understanding of the issues at hand, so I continued my search but
>this time not only put in the key words public morality and private
>morality but also Marx. I widened the field of search by also asking
>Jstor to look in Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy,
>Political Science and Sociology. I found 3 articles:
>
>*      Morality and the Invisible Hand by Christopher McMahon,
>*      The Religious Conscience in Lord Acton's Political Thought by
>John S. Nurser
>*      Pareto and Pluto-Democracy: The Retreat to Galapagos by S. E. Finer
>
>
>
>-----
>WoS searches of the social sciences by topic using terms that
>generated a nil response were:-
>
>Hierarchy in Turkish villages
>
>Hierarchy and Turkish villages
>
>Marriage and Turkish villages
>
>Status in Turkey
>
>Prestige in Turkey
>
>Prestge and Turkey
>
>Wealth and Turkey and villages
>
>Power in Turkey
>
>
>Marrige in Turkey generated an article called "Changing Attitudes
>towards Work & Marriage-Turkey in Transition' by Culpan O and
>Marzotto T. Which I did find and will refer to in my essay.
>
>Laws in Turkey generated an article called 'reform of personal
>status laws in North Africa-A problem of Islamic or mediterranean
>laws' by Mayer A.E.,
>
>Turkish villages generated three references, one irrelevent and two
>reasuringly, of Paul Stirling's
>
>Social science searches of Wos by place generated 2217 references
>for the term Turkey
>
>Searching for articles citing particular authors and using Stirling
>P seventy four references appeared one by Glen Bowman and one by
>B.Schwimmer from June 1996 edition of Current Anthropology .
>
>In it he says that the anthropology department at UKC was amongst
>only three universities that he knew of at the time to make a
>sustained effort to use internet resources.
>
>Social change and Turkey generated what looked like something really
>useful 'Elderly narrative reflections...Turkish village...migration'
>by Coles R.L from a December 2001 journal which will presumably be
>available as an e-journal but is not yet, which is a shame.
>
>An article by Ilcan S.M. called 'Peasant
>struggles...migration...rural turkish society' also looked
>interesting but did not show up on JStor.
>
>Other JStor searches using in turn the terms Turkey,
>Land,Migration,Employment,Power and Power generated similar lists
>with one article on all. That was ' Social change and the family in
>Turkey' by Nur Verdin from the December 1985 edition of Current
>Anthropology. There was some useful information in it which i shall
>use in my essay.
>
>'Surveying Peasant Attitudes in Turkey' by Frederick W Frey sounded
>of interest because this was research done in 1963 and almost
>contemporary with Stirlings earliest work.It was, however, mostly
>concerned with how the survey was conducted.
>
>A university library search generated two books that both proved
>useful for background information.
>
>'Turkey in the World Capitalist System' edited by Huseyin Ramazanoglu and
>
>'Land,Marriage and Lineage Organization....pastoralists....Southern
>Turkey' by Aswad BCB
>-----
>Web of Science searches:
>
>
>All searches performed in Art & Humanities AND Social science combined.
>
>No limit on age of articles was used.
>
>
>Keywords: Turkey wealth power - no results - to narrow/inappropriate
wording
>
>Keywords: Turkey wealth rank - no results - to narrow terms
>
>Keywords: Turk* social rank - no results
>
>Keywords: Turk* power - no relevant results (7 articles concerning the
>Azerbaijan Turks, or Turkish rule elsewhere)
>
>
>
>Read information from the following URL but opted not to include into essay
>because although it had some interesting data on cultural changes, I was
>concentrating on Turkey in the late 40's/early 50's when Stirling's
>fieldwork occurred.
>
>http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Field/4504/turkey.html
>
>------
>
>
>1.   Whilst researching for the Paul Stirling Work, I used the web
>of science to locate information. It had been recommended to me,
>although I did at first begin to find it difficult as I found that
>the words that I searched for gave either too many or too little
>results:
>
>
>
>Hierarchy - Too broad
>
>Hierarchy and social - Too narrow
>
>
>
>These problems meant that it was difficult to locate relevant information.
>
>
>
>First try: Turkey and wealth - 4 articles found.
>
>Second try: Turkey and Power - 173 articles found.
>
>
>
>Although these gave more answers, most of the information found was
>irrelevant. I discover that I find these search engines quite hard
>to use and try my own searches on www.google.com and and
>www.ask.co.uk.
>
>
>
>---
>WORKING NOTE 1: Entry of Key words into Web of Science and outcomes:
>
>WEALTH: This was the first key word I entered into WOS, I thought it
>relevant in that it is in the actual question asked. This search
>proved too broad as it brought up totally irrelevant topics.
>
>POWER: This search again proved far too broad. It would have taken
>far too long to trawl through all the articles that came up. I think
>that I will narrow down the search for the next one.
>
>WEALTH AND POWER: I decided to try the two terms together but this
>again was far too broad and once again produced many articles on
>totally irrelevant topics.
>
>SOCIAL and POWER and TURKEY: When I entered more specific terms
>linked together by 'and' the WOS search came out with some very
>useful articles that were very relevant to the topic. I was able to
>look at these and find useful information with regard to the
>question.
>
>TURKEY and WEALTH and POWER: When I entered these three key words,
>linked again by the use of 'and' it became much more specific, I was
>given one listing which fell into all the brackets requested. This
>then seemed to be too narrow as there was only one listing. Although
>I was looking at Turkey specifically I think I need to look at more
>listings without Turkey, in the wider context in order that i gain
>knowledge about the topics, i then feel I would be more able to
>relate them to the work of Stirling and then use his work more
>effectively.
>
>DEFININTION OF POWER: When I decided to look for a definition of
>what i was looking at I found a few very useful articles which
>enabled me to look at the cncept and notions of power.
>----
>Using Web of Science
>I did an 'easy search' in the social sciences citation index. There
>is a large amount of information stored on the site. However as the
>site only lists the titles of articles it's hard to know what is
>really relevant. A search for 'public and private morality' found 3
>articles. 'Informal social rules' gave me no results, but 'informal
>controls' found a large amount of articles. To try and narrow down
>the results I tried searching for 'informal controls versus law' but
>this gave me no results.
>
>Jstor
>After reading sterling's paper on impartiality and personal law I
>was interested by his conclusion that corruption develops when small
>communities are incorporated into a bureacracy . It especially
>interested me that he believed corruption would dissolve with
>competion from other, suposedly noncorrupt States. I wanted to see
>his ideas from a different point of view so I went to search Jstor
>to find articles about a marxist view to corruption.notes
>
>----
>Wealth is not very useful word. Most articles are about inequalities
>andsocial policy. Very few anthropological results.
>
>
>
>
>
>Power:
>
>Power wasn't useful word at all. Power is such a vague word that it didn't
>give straight results related to my topic. Most articles dealt with
>economics.
>
>
>Power + Wealth:
>Good combination! Couple of highly relevant articles found.
>
>
>
>Leadership:
>
>Not useful at all. Lots of articles about health and schools.
>
>
>
>
>----
>My Working Notes:
>
>*      I decided that the best way to start,was to look over a few
>of Paul Stirlings online articles, so that i would know which key
>words were going to be most vital to my search. I used WoS to
>research the terms, 'power', 'control', 'status' and 'wealth'. I
>found that listing these words as on their own without the word
>turkey with them gave me a ridculous amount of results, which had
>nothing to do with Turkey. Whereas when I used combined the words
>with the country it gave me no results.
>
>---
>1. Here are the key words I used in the WoS search and the articles
>that I read.
>
>private AND morality- "Behind the market stage where real societies
>exist. The role of public and private order institutions." Journel
>of development studies. April 1994.
>
>
>Turkey AND marriage- "Family and couple initiated marriages in
>Turkey." Genetic Social and General Psychology Monographs. August
>1997.
>
>"Marrige regulation and the rhetoric of alliance in Northwestern
>Turkey" Ethnology 1994.
>
>
>Informal AND controls- "Community and the state, the relationship
>between normative and legal controls" European Sociological Review.
>September 2000.
>
>
>Initially I began with using the words turkey and marriage
>seperately which were far too broad. It was impossible to find
>relevant articles when using these terms. The articles I found were
>very relevent to the essay title. The third article was not availibe
>on-line which was dissapointing as this would have given greater
>depth to my essay. It was useful linking the terms together to give
>me a choice of articles that were more relevent to the topic.
>---
>WORKING NOTE 1:
>
>These are the key words that I used while conducting my research, in
>the correct order:
>
>WEALTH: This was the first key word I used. It is viable in that the
>word is taken out of the actual question, however it was too broad a
>word to use on its own. The search results provided me with too many
>different topics that had no relevance to the relationship of wealth
>and power. For example the results included information on topics
>ranging from housing wealth to wealth inheritance strategies.
>
>POWER: As with wealth, the results were far too broad. It would have
>been impractical and too time consuming to examine all of the search
>results given.
>
>WEALTH AND POWER: I thought that by combining the two key words from
>the question I would achieve results that could aid me in answering
>the question, however this was not the case. The results were still
>far to broad. with the majority having no relevance to the question.
>
>TURKEY AND POWER AND WEALTH: I chose to add Turkey to Wealth and
>power because the Stirling articles focus on power and wealth in
>Turkey. However this search was too narrow, with web of Science only
>providing one result, which had little relevance to the question.
>---
>
>Working Note 1 :
>
>I began by logging into the 'Web of Science' web site, and to try
>and find some useful information on relevant articles on the essay
>subject, I did a general search.
>
>Words Entered:
>
>---Wealth AND Power = 466 documents found.
>
>
>Conclusion - too many articles found on too varied a subject
>material resulting in a high number of irrelevant articles. Too
>broad, more details possibly needed.
>
>-Turkey AND Wealth AND Power = 2 documents found.
>
>Conclusion - neither of any relevance. Too many words.
>
>-Turkey AND Wealth = 3 documents found:
>
>
>Celik Y, Hotchkiss DR
>The socio-economic determinants of maternal health care utilization in
Turkey
>SOC SCI MED 50 (12): 1797-1806 JUN 2000
>Erman T
>The impact of migration on Turkish rural women - Four emergent patterns
>GENDER SOC 12 (2): 146-167 APR 1998
>Adigun I
>Orientations to work - A cross-cultural approach
>J CROSS CULT PSYCHOL 28 (3): 352-355 MAY 1997
>
>
>
>
>None of these are of any particular relevance to the subject under study.
>
>I tried another variation:
>
>-Turkey AND Power = 68 documents found.
>
>Conclusion - None that I can find of particular relevance.
>
>All in all my conclusion is that the Web of Science search engine
>has not been of considerable use for my search of information on
>this subject.
>
>I used a few other search engines such as Google.com and Yahoo.com
>but found nothing particularly useful so decided to go to the
>library and do some research from there
>
>
>---
>WoS: examples of words used, Turkey/turkey, wealth and power, power,
>wealth, Middle East, Anatolia/anatolia. Not many of theses words
>were that successful and a limited number of relevant articles were
>found (two of which given below)
>
>Examples of articles found:
>
>Peasant Struggles and Social Change - migration households and
>Gender in a rural Turkish Village, S.M Ilcan.
>
>Turkish State, Turkish Society - Finkal, A. Sirman, N.
>
>With example one, Ilcan had findings similar to Stirling. Large
>rural shift to urban, Change in social hierarchy. Industrial
>expanses in agriculture has only affected those with large land
>holdings. Migrant wage labour central to the means of production.
>Rural change advancing at different speeds. Drastic change in some
>communities.
>----
>
>--
>
>Dr David Zeitlyn,
>Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology,
>Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
>Department of Anthropology,
>Eliot College, The University of Kent,
>Canterbury,
>CT2 7NS, UK.
>Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct)
>Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office)
>Fax  +44 (0)1227 827289
>http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/

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