Education & Research

 “Perception and Assessment of Global Environmental Change: A Developing Country Perspective”.  Paper presented at the International Symposium on Responsible Environmental Behavior, September, 1996, Berne, Switzerland.

 “Framing Environmental Problems in Global and Local Perspectives: An Example from a Developing Country Metropolitan” Ç. Kağıtçıbaşı and F. Goksen.  Paper presented at Annual Conference of  the American Sociological Association, August 1997, Toronto, Canada.

 “The Role of Social Support and Social Influence in Health Behavior: Multifaceted Concept of Social Support and its Implications for a Communication Intervention”  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, August, 1998, San Fransisco, USA.

 “Role of Social Support and Social Influence in Exclusive Breastfeeding:  Implications for a Communication Intervention”.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, July 1998, Jerusalem, Israel.

 “Effects of Literacy and the Structure of TV news on Recall”.  Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, July 29-31, 1998, Madison, WI.

 Gökşen, F., Gülgöz, S., and Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç. “Functional Literacy, Social Participation, and Media”  Paper presented at the Symposium on Multi-dimensional Effects of Empowerment Programs on Women,  April, 1999, Istanbul.

 Gökşen, F.  “General Methodology of the Research on Effects of  Program Participation.  Paper presented at the Symposium on Multi-dimensional Effects of Empowerment Programs on Women,  April, 1999, Istanbul.

 “Functional Literacy, Social Participation, and Media Literacy”  Paper presented at the Central Asia Regional Literacy Forum, June, 1999, Istanbul.

 “Functional Literacy, Television News and Social Participation : Linkages Between Mass Media and Empowerment of Women”.  Paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 6-10, Chicago, 1999.

 Gökşen, F.  “Multi-faceted Aspects of Environmental Problems in İstanbul and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Improvement”  Paper presented at the Conference of the European Sociological Association, August, 1999, Amsterdam.

 Gökşen, F., and Zenginobuz, U.  “Environmental Postmaterialism and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Improvement: Case of a Developing Country”  Paper presented in the Workshop on Political Economy of Environmental Improvement, February, 2000, Istanbul.

Gökşen, F.  “Poverty as Social Exclusion: Implications For Long-Term Design Of Development Practices.” Paper presented at the Annual Seminar for Robert S. McNamara Fellows, World Bank, Washington, DC, November, 1999.

Göksen, F., Adaman, F., and Zenginobuz, Ü. “İstanbul’un Çevre Sorunlarina Çok Yönlü Yaklaşimlar”,  Paper presented at the Workshop on Multi-faceted aspects of environmental problems in Istanbul, Bogazici University, February, 2000.

Gökşen, F., Gülgöz, S., and Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç.  “Functional Literacy, Television News And Social Participation : Linkages Between Mass Media And Empowerment Of Women.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico, May, 2000.

Gulgoz, S., Goksen, F. & Kagitcibasi, C.  “Literacy is more than learning to read: Information retention from TV news”.  Poster presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France, July, 2000.

Gökşen, F. “On Enviromental Concern, Willingness to Pay, and Postmaterialist Values: Evidence from İstanbul”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August, 2000.

Gökşen, F., Adaman, F. and Zenginobuz, Ü.  “Citizens of İstanbul Confronting Environmental Problems: The Political Economy of Civic Engagement and the Possibility of Cooperation”.  Paper presented at the Workshop of the European Science Foundation on Environmental Perceptions, Discourses and Policies in Southern and Northern Europe, İstanbul, September, 2000.

Gökşen, F., Adaman, F. and Zenginobuz. “The political economy of the environment: The case of Turkey”.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Sociological Association, Helsinki, August, 2001.

Gökşen, F.  (Invited speaker)  Social Sciences and Social Policies in the 21st Century, International Social Science Council, December., 2002, Vienna.

Gökşen, F. “Building social capital though literacy: A case of socially excluded women  in Istanbul”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August, 2003, Atlanta.

Gökşen F.Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç., and Gülgöz, S. “Functional litercay, television news, and social participation: Linkages between mass media and empowerment of women”.  Paper presented at the Conference of the European Sociological Association, September, 2003, Murcia, Spain.

Gökşen, F. “Philanthropy for social justice: Study of vakıfs in Turkey”.  Paper presented at the Meeting of the Ford Foundation on Social Justice in Islamic Societies, Cairo, June, 2004.