Social change and social stratification in a Turkish village
Titel:
Social change and social stratification in a Turkish village
Auteur:
Kandiyoti, Deniz
Verschenen in:
The journal of peasant studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 2 (1975) nr. 2 pagina's 206-219
Jaar:
1975-01
Inhoud:
The aim of this paper is to illustrate and critically discuss the effect of social change on rural stratification in Turkey by means of a case study. The rural village under consideration is named Sakarya and is situated 90 kms. S.W. of Ankara in the heart of the grain-farming area of the Anatolian plateau, which is now dominated by mechanized, capital intensive wheat cultivation. One of the advantages of focusing on this particular case, is that it belongs to an area the subsistence or near-subsistence stage of which has been researched in great detail [Stirling, 1965; Cuisenier, 1967; Berkes, 1942], thus providing easier access to a baseline in reference to which contemporary transformations in the stratification system become intelligible. Also, Sakarya is typical of small landownership villages which according to a survey conducted by the State Planning Office in 1968 cover 40 per cent of the rural population, so that the structural changes it has undergone are typical of a large section of rural Turkey.
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