Adjustment and Hybridity in Turkish Family Change

Perspectives from Developmental Idealism

Bibliographic Data

ID6079993
AuthorsSerap Kava (0000-0003-1880-7227, Department of Sociology, Suleyman Sah University, Istanbul, Turkey), Arland Thornton (0000-0002-1607-2047, Institute for Social Research & Department of Sociology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Year2013
Volume38
Issue2
Pages223-241
Publication date2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0363199013482263
OpenAlexW2060144264
LanguageEN
Citations received46

Since the late Ottoman period, the family has been considered the central element in the modernization process in Turkey. Believing that changes in such institutions as marriage, divorce, and fertility are indices of modern family and modern society, political elites formulated strong aspirations to change Turkish families along Western lines. Turkish families have been characterized by substantial changes in marriage, divorce, and gender roles over the past half-century. Although many explanations have been proposed for these changes, this study offers new explanations based on ideational influences. Our theoretical approach draws on the developmental idealism framework, which throws new light on ideational factors that produce continuity and change in family and demographic behavior

Aesthetics · Fertility · Hybridity · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Turkish · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society

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