Qualitative Comparison According To Animism And Anthropomorphism Of Social And Science Pre-Service Teachers' Explanations Towards Atomic Concept

In research, the aim is to compare quantitatively the knowledge related to the concept of atoms by the Pre-Service Teachers (PST) in science and social studies to the daily use of the terms animism and anthropomorphism linguistically. This research was done with the contribution of the students who studied sociology, history, philosophy, in social studies and the ones who studied at science teaching fields in 2014-2015 academic year. In this research descriptive research technique, which is one of the methods of quantitative research technique used. The data collection instrument of this research: A quantitative measuring instrument was developed by deriving the data as a result of the researchers by Nakipo？lu, Poyraz (2006) and Taber (1996). This measuring instrument (2006) consists of 25 items. Each item covers 6 choices. Three of these choices are about anthropomorphism; the other three choices are about animism. The test items consist of scientific propositions in which the verb places are left empty in the sentence. Students are asked to identify the first three sentences which are true for them. The frequent use of the two terms: subjectivity and objectivity are compared according to the field and gender variety. The students who are at the social department use subjective expressions more than the students at the science department. When gender variety has been considered, it has been put forth that there has been nearly no difference between male and female students