Kadın ve Miras: Sosyolojik bir Değerlendirme
Woman and Heritage: Sociological Assessment

Summary/Abstract: It can be accepted that one of the practices of subordination of women to men in traditional societies is about the right of inheritance. If we think about the case of Turkey related to this topic, we could assert that, Turkey has heterogeneous character in this sense. In other words, if we examine legal arrangements, we can say that there is equal right of inheritance of both men and women. But, in practice the realization of this right cannot always happen. Both economical and cultural factors are among the causes of this fact. Giving equal part of inheritance to the daughters or sisters is perceived as the waste of money or sources of family. Because it is believed that, daughters and sisters in the future are going to be married and they going to be part of another family. So they will become a stranger. Money is the family’s own estate and it must be kept in the family. In this paper, this fact is examined in the case of distribution of money gave by the State as the condemnation appraisal of lands due to the construction of dams in the North-Eastern part of Turkey from the point of phenomenological hermeneutics and “Comprehensive Cultural Sociology”. As the result of semi structured of depth interviews made with 28 people whose land were condemned it can be asserted that, generally both women and men participants accepted the unequal distribution of this money between male and female inheritors. Related to this result, in this paper the factors of this situation are debated by depending the concepts as justice, gender and tradition.

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