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Educational Needs Of Families In Turkey
Families consider advertisements as a reason of economic problems they experience.
Advertisements are considered as one of the most important components inciting the
consumption by families. It is stressed that advertisements always encourage people to
buy new products and show unnecessary things to people as if they really needed these
products. It is mentioned that advertisers do their jobs professionally and almost try to
eradicate wills of the people. In this sense, it is very rather difficult for an individual to
protect himself or herself from negative impacts of the advertisements with their per-
sonal feelings and habits. At this point, it is seen that trainings for raising awareness of
the people in the matter of media literacy or advertisements and TV’s inciting the con-
sumption are needed.
Another reason leading people to shopping is being affected from environment.
Particularly young family members or children want to have products, which they see
in their class mates or neighbours.
Another problem can be mentioned as people feel themselves better by shopping.
One of the points emphasized by participants mostly is that people have tendency of
going to shopping centres and shopping when they feel negative feelings, in other
words, when they are unhappy or when they get bored.
Another point, which must be emphasized particularly at this point, is those big
shopping centres pervading in our country in recent years lead to change in
consumption habits of the people. Participants think that big shopping centres lead
people to more consumption.
Disregard of energy saving and ignorance of ways of energy saving come to forefront
as an important problem. Most of the participants assume that energy saving just
means using electricity and water carefully.
A considerable part of the families mentioned that they do not make any plan
relating to management of family budget. Families not making any plan relating to
family budget though they encounter with many problems such as income deficiency
and high cost of living cause them to experience economic problems. In this sense,
people can form a family budget, observe income and expenses more clearly, and take
their economic conditions under control. In this sense, important contributions can be
made to families in the matter of firstly taking family budget under control and then