Some Social-Psychological Dimensions of Social Change in a Turkish Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5634952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deniz Kandiyoti (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/589959 |
| OpenAlex | W2317847869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
A neglected but controversial area in development studies is concerned with the social-psychological aspects of social change. The crucial problems in this area are centred around (a) how structural changes are mediated to individuals and groups, and (b) whether these, in turn, produce consistent changes in outlook, attitudes and behaviour which have been frequently depicted as an 'individual modernity' syndrome (Smith and Inkeles, I966; Kahl, I968; Doob, I967; Dawson, I967). The neglect of these problems is partly due to the fact that socialpsychological theories proper, have not dealt with the interactional problems mentioned above, but have postulated psychological primemovers such as achievement motivation or innovativeness as crucial factors in the making of entrepreneurs or innovators. These individuals, who differ from their peers in terms of their early childhood socialization and overall psychological make up, are assumed to provide the major impetus to social change (McClelland, I96I; Hagen, I96I, I962). Here, the process of change is itself explained in terms of psychological independent variables. On the other hand, efforts have been made at defining empirical syndromes of inter-related attitudes treated as dependent variables, or micro-level counterparts of crucial social determinants such as 'urbanization, education, mass communication, industrialization and politicization' which are themselves assumed to form the inter-related components of a comprehensive process of 'modernization' (Inkeles, I966, p. I39). In this case, the problem has been one of defining and measuring those attributes and attitudes best suited to differentiate between traditional and modern settings
Political science · Social change · Sociology · Turkish · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1990 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |