Writing a thesis is one of the final steps of the academic journey for masters or doctoral students. When it comes to why the thesis is written, most people who are related to the subject think of learning how to produce scientific arguments or being able to put forward a scientific study. But there are such theses that it is mind-blowing, when you look at it for two minutes, you say how they were written, how they passed the jury…
When science is mentioned, the natural science approach, which only focuses on what can be measured objectively, does not come to mind. Social sciences, which deal with what happens in life with different approaches, also tell us a lot in the name of science. Some consider this multifaceted side of social science. abuse and instead of drawing a rational point of view in his works, he can adopt a subjective, extremely subjective attitude.
However, there is a situation that no matter what your branch of science is, you have to follow a methodology while writing a thesis. In other words, the methodology will determine the arguments you will put forward in your thesis according to which scientific text preparation steps. you will build is showing. Some theses have neither been able to put forward an argument nor have they been able to justify the method they have followed. So, we wanted to compile interesting theses in the language of the media, thinking that you might be interested…
1) That thesis consisting of only the table of contents, entitled “Compilation of Ottoman folk life in the works of foreign writers who visited the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century”.
Contents and Bibliography of Meriç Aybar’s Thesis
This thesis is a doctoral thesis and the person who wrote the thesis, Assist. Assoc. titled Meriç Aybar. The reason for the criticism of the thesis is that it consists only of the table of contents. On top of that, the author writes about his references, academic citation rules He did not specify it appropriately and gave the references only in the form of page numbers without specifying the imprint (author’s information). The incident broke out so much on social media in 2017 that YÖK made the following statement:
“The Council of Higher Education has never done anything in our universities since its establishment. academic review of the thesis did not participate in the acceptance or rejection process. All procedures are carried out only by the juries formed by the relevant institutes of the universities where the thesis is presented, within the framework of academic freedom and relevant legislation.”
Of course, when the event came to the point of sensation, a statement came from Atatürk University, the university where the thesis was written, that they would conduct a meticulous examination on this subject. The thesis advisor and Meriç Aybar said that this is not the finished thesis. state of correction said that. Aybar says that the original version of the thesis is more than 200 pages. Thesis no longer appears in the YÖK Thesis system. Pretty interesting, right?
2) The thesis named “The relationship between astrological personality and organizational commitment” = Those who want to see loyal employees in their workplaces should hire people according to their zodiac sign.
Abstract section of the thesis
Prepared at Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey University, the aforementioned master’s thesis Canan Selvi, the author of this thesis, aimed to reveal that there is a relationship between astrological personality and organizational commitment. Selvi presents an argument that organizations that attach importance to organizational commitment should recruit signs from water, earth, air and fire signs that fit the organization’s sense of commitment. In fact, to support this argument, he goes and distributes questionnaires to employees in institutions and analyzes the data in these questionnaires with SPSS, a statistical analysis program used in social sciences. According to Selvi, employers should hire water signs (crab, fish, scorpio) and earth signs (taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) for organizational commitment. What are you thinking? You can read the entire thesis here.
3) The thesis written because there is no thesis written on the logic of eating food by wrapping it in bread in the gastronomy literature: ‘The place of dürüm culture in Gaziantep cuisine’
Abstract and conclusion part of the thesis
Esra Demircioğlu, who is the author of this master’s thesis written in the Gastronomy Department of Gaziantep University, states in the conclusion part of the thesis that the wrap is not unique to Gaziantep cuisine, but has an important place in Gaziantep culture. This thesis on social media it got a lot of attention.
Here are a few interesting reactions to this thesis on the Twitter agenda:
4) Social media users also found it interesting to write a thesis about the Kurtlar Vadisi series. Here are the theses written…
On March 15, 2022, a user tweeted that he found 13 theses on the Valley of the Wolves in the YÖK thesis system:
Some users may be curious and want to see the theses, those who wish can have 13 theses. can be accessed here.
Resources: YÖK NATIONAL THESIS CENTER, Hürriyet, Newspaper Vatan, Yuklis, twitter
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