Investigation of Secondary School Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Law and Justice Course According to Family Income-Level Variable

The sample group of this research, which was conducted to examine the perceptions and attitudes of students towards the Law and Justice course, which is given as an elective course in secondary schools, according to family income level and to decipher the relationship between them, consists of various secondary school students located within the administrative boundaries of Sultanbeyli district. The “Law and Justice Course Content and Structure Questionnaire” was used as a data collection tool in the research. The research data were transferred to the computer environment with the help of the SPSS program; frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and ANOVA tests were analyzed; a quantitative but not experimental descriptive relational research model was designed. According to the results obtained from the research findings; the difference between the student's perceptions of the Law and Justice course and the law and the family monthly income-level variables was not significant, but the difference between their attitudes toward the content of the Law and Justice course and their family monthly income level was found to be significant. The results obtained in the research were also compared with those from previous studies. Accordingly, various suggestions have been made that student should visit places such as courthouses, police stations, and law offices where legal issues are handled concretely and that teachers should try to homogenizing the different socio-economic statuses of the students during the lesson