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HAS THE RECENT URBANIZATION IN TURKEY CHANGED THE NATURE OF TRADITIONAL PRIMARY GROUP RELATIONSHIP; A STUDY OF SOCIAL SUPPORTIVENESS BETWEEN KIN, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS IN VARIOUS TYPE OF TURKISH ENVIRONMENTS

Journal Name:

  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Çalışmaları Dergisi

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  • 1987
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Abstract (Original Language): 
The social psychological analysis of the city suggest that the urban environment and urban living produce alterations even in important social behaviour between primary groups : kin, friends and neighbours. A field study was carried out to evaluate this hypothesis in Turkey, a different setting than most studies done to date. Data collected from various types of Turkish urban environments; city, towns, city squatter settlements did not show any significant differences on various measures of social contacts and social supportiveness occurring between ikin and friends (controlling for spatial distance) across these three environments. But one influence exerted by the urban environment was that it increased spatial distance between kin, friends which in turn effected social contact patterns and supportiveness between kin and friends. Neighbourly social relationships and supportiveness were significantly less in Turkish city environments than in the towns and squatter settlements, which showed equivalent level of neighbourly social behaviours. This supports the view that the city squatters in a psychological and social sense are «urban villa-gers». The implications of the present data oppose the deterministic view of urban theories which argue unequivocal impact of the urban environment on social behaviour.
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