Old Culture--New Culture

A Study of Migrants in Ankara, Turkey

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2239477
AutoresNed Levine (0000-0002-1053-2663, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, autor correspondente)
Ano1973
Volume51
Fascículo3
Páginas355-368
Data de publicação1973-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/sf/51.3.355
OpenAlexW2074192264
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

This is a study of rural-to-urban migrants in Ankara, Turkey—the relationship between maintaining village contacts after settling in the city and evidence of urban acculturation. Taking two aspects of urban acculturation, urban participation and belief-attitude changes, it was found that maintaining contacts with the villages promotes, rather than inhibits urban adaptation. The results were interpreted as supporting a contact-facilitation model of acculturation and the implications of this model for the social organization of Ankara and other newly urbanized cities was indicated. It was argued that the informal networks which migrants maintain with their villages serve as a support system for themselves and as an informal welfare system for newly arriving migrants.

Acculturation · Adaptation (eye) · Demographic economics · Economics · Environmental planning · Facilitation · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Urban culture · Urban Environment · Welfare · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology