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Etnisite Kavramının İdeolojik Serüveni
Ideological Adventure of Ethnicity Concept

Author(s): Şükrü Nişanci, Cemal Işik
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Ethnohistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: Ethnicity; Ethnic Identity; Nation State ; The West; Modernisation;

Summary/Abstract: The term Ethnicity is used both in Turkey and in the world increasingly as a key concept when it comes to identity enquiries in social sciences. In this study, the definition of ethnicity in the context of conceptual fields, historical development process in the West from Ancient Greek up to today are evaluated in terms of historical, social, and intellectual aspects and the thesis is tried to be manifested that the ideological thoughts, which state that regional belonging will disappear in the presence of modernization and nation state, are decreasing gradually and after 1960s the ethnic and regional dependence have come into prominence.

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 195-224
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Turkish