The purpose of the research is to determine the attitudes of prospective teachers studying in the Department of Social Studies Education in Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education in 2013-2014 academic year towards the teaching profession considering some variable such as gender, type of high school type they graduated from, parent’s education level, class level, the reasons for choosing teaching as a profession, whether or not there is a teacher in the family, and family income.  The research was carried out with descriptive scanning model. In this study, an attitude scale consisting of 33 items and developed by Özgür (1994) was applied to 175 male and 125 female teacher candidates. The data obtained were analysed by using the SPSS 18.00 statistical package program. Frequency and percentages were used to analyse the distribution of the pre-service teachers according to the demographic characteristics and their responses to the items in the attitude scale and t-test was used to determine whether or not their attitudes towards the profession differed according to the gender variable.  One-Way Variance Analysis was administered to determine whether their responses differed if there is a teacher in the family. Kruskal Wallis H test was utilized considering the school they last graduated from, parent’s educational background, family’s monthly income, and their reasons for choosing teaching as a profession and Dunnet T 3 Post Hoc test was used to determine the source of differences between the variables. In the research, the attitudes of social studies teacher candidates towards the profession were higher in favour of girls considering gender. It was concluded that the social studies teacher candidate’s attitudes towards the profession did not differ according to the class level, the type of school they last graduated from, the presence of anyone who works as a teacher, and parents’ educational background. It was determined that the attitudes of teachers who responded that “I love teaching as a profession” were higher considering their reasons for choosing the teaching profession

Profession, teaching profession, attitude