%0 Journal Article %T A RESEARCH ON "EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION ¨C GENDER DISCRIMINATION FACTOR" %A Ali Erdem Akg¨¹l %J - %D 2019 %X The concept of the "equality of opportunity in education", which means the equ-ality of accessing the educational resources and their equal utilization, refers to benefitting equally from education, which brings the values that make human a truly honourable and noble existence and increases the level of life, in equal conditions on the basis of talent and desire. The equality of opportunity in edu-cation is also a fundamental concept that is related to social mobility, which is one of the distinctive features of modern society. There are many social factors associated with the equality of opportunity in edu-cation. Among them, gender discrimination is a prominent factor and it is essen-tial to carry out sociological research on ¡°the equal opportunities in education and gender based discrimination factor¡±. What kind of situation is presented between the equal opportunities in education and gender discrimination factor? What are the opinions and approaches of citizens relative to this? Does gender discrimination affect access to educational resources and their utilization? It is very important to conduct sociological research and to obtain results towards the questions and problems within this context. When the current literature is examined, it can be seen that field studies conduc-ted for the analysis are not sufficiently included, which reveals the necessity of a sociological analysis and evaluation on this subject. Accordingly, this study aims at providing a sociological evaluation on the relationship between the equality of opportunity in education and gender discrimination factor, which is lacking in the current literature. In this work, which is based on a field study, the situation between the "equality of opportunity in education and gender discrimination factor" has been exami-ned and evaluated sociologically in the example of Ayd£¿n city centre. The met-hod of questionnaire was used and the questionnaires were applied to 412 citi-zens within the context of quantitative research in the form of mutual interview. In this regard, it has been tried to obtained data and to determine the situation within the context of the equality of opportunity in education and gender discri-mination factor from the perspective of citizens with quantitative research %K E£¿itimde F£¿rsat E£¿itli£¿i %K F£¿rsat E£¿itli£¿i %K Cinsiyet Ayr£¿m£¿ %K Toplumsal Hareketlilik %U http://dergipark.org.tr/ijshs/issue/47258/595401