Ali Şimşek
The New Middle Class
Type
abstract
Year
2014
Şimşek, Ali and Akçay, Ahmet Sait. Yeni Orta Sınıf. Istanbul: L& M Yayıncılık, 2005, 120pp.
ABSTRACT
The New Middle Class
Yeni Orta Sınıf
In his short but intense study, Ali Şimşek examines one of the major aspects of Turkey’s cultural transformation in the 1990s. He looks at the emerging culture of white collar professionals in the biggest cities and points out that their number has rapidly increased and their culture become dominant. The emerging group perceived itself as the new elite, and culturally distanced itself from the traditional middle and lower classes. In this new cultural climate, the culture of lower classes and traditional moral values of the middle classes have been generally denigrated.
Şimşek’s analysis specifically focuses on one of the most popular humour magazines, Leman, which was first published in 1991. This magazine has had a strong impact on the university students and youth in general. It has been instrumental in the spread of parodies ridiculing the 1970s and 1980s life style, mocking Turkishness, and praising cultural gentrification and the adoption of a new urban way of life.
Yeni Orta Sınıf is without doubt an instinctive and a thought-provoking book. Nevertheless, the study seems to be solely based on the authors' observations. It represents, in one sense, a type of sociology based on impressions, which could be called “Simmelian.” Although the author analyses the caricatures produced in the magazine in detail, he does not try to situate the work within an urban context. Except for a few references to previous works, the author does not mention important researches conducted on this topic. Despite this shortcoming, this study still deserves the attention of researchers who are interested in globalisation after the 1990s, and the changing culture of urbanised societies.
Sinan Kadir Çelik
Citation
Çelik, Sinan Kadir. “English abstract of 'The New Middle Class'". Translated by Sinan Kadir Çelik. In Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011, by Aptin Khanbaghi, 154. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
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The New Middle Class
Type
abstract
Year
2014
Şimşek, Ali and Akçay, Ahmet Sait. Yeni Orta Sınıf. Istanbul: L& M Yayıncılık, 2005, 120pp.
ABSTRACT
The New Middle Class
Yeni Orta Sınıf
In his short but intense study, Ali Şimşek examines one of the major aspects of Turkey’s cultural transformation in the 1990s. He looks at the emerging culture of white collar professionals in the biggest cities and points out that their number has rapidly increased and their culture become dominant. The emerging group perceived itself as the new elite, and culturally distanced itself from the traditional middle and lower classes. In this new cultural climate, the culture of lower classes and traditional moral values of the middle classes have been generally denigrated.
Şimşek’s analysis specifically focuses on one of the most popular humour magazines, Leman, which was first published in 1991. This magazine has had a strong impact on the university students and youth in general. It has been instrumental in the spread of parodies ridiculing the 1970s and 1980s life style, mocking Turkishness, and praising cultural gentrification and the adoption of a new urban way of life.
Yeni Orta Sınıf is without doubt an instinctive and a thought-provoking book. Nevertheless, the study seems to be solely based on the authors' observations. It represents, in one sense, a type of sociology based on impressions, which could be called “Simmelian.” Although the author analyses the caricatures produced in the magazine in detail, he does not try to situate the work within an urban context. Except for a few references to previous works, the author does not mention important researches conducted on this topic. Despite this shortcoming, this study still deserves the attention of researchers who are interested in globalisation after the 1990s, and the changing culture of urbanised societies.
Sinan Kadir Çelik
Citation
Çelik, Sinan Kadir. “English abstract of 'The New Middle Class'". Translated by Sinan Kadir Çelik. In Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011, by Aptin Khanbaghi, 154. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
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Copyright
Muslim Civilisations Abstracts - The Aga Khan University
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Türkiye
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English