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POSİTİF SOSYAL DAVRANIŞ VE ŞEHİRLEŞME ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ: ŞEHİRDE SOSYAL HAYAT KALİTESİNİN ANLAŞILMASI BAKIMINDAN BİRBİRİNİ TANIMAYAN İKİ FERT ARASINDAKİ YARDIMLAŞMANIN İNCELENMFSİ

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBANIZATION AND POSITIVE SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: A STUDY OF HELPFULNESS BETWEEN STRANGERS IN VARIOUS TYPE OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTS AS AN INDICATION OF QUALITY OF SOCIAL LIFE

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A field study was carried out in Turkey in order to compare the level of helpfulness in town, cities, and urban squatter settlements. Four different naturalistic measures of helpfulness were de-velopted and used: willingness to give change, willingness to cooperate with an interview, response to a small accident, and response to a lost postcard. The results generally showed significantly less helpfulness in Turkish cities than in towns and urban squatter settlements, which showed equivalent levels of helpfulness. This supports the view that the squatters may in a pschological and social sense be «urban villagers». Consistent and considerable differences in helpful ness were also found between other typs of city districts. Some of these districts came close to the towns and squatter settlements in their levels of helpfulness, suggesting that drawing distinctions between environments in terms of their behavioral characteristics is best done with the concept of a social-enviromental continuum rather than an urban-nonurban dichotomy. Also environmental input level as an explanation of urban social behaviour was tested in naturalistic environments, found to influence the level of helpfulness for female subjects but not male subjects.
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