GENÇLERİN TOPLUMSALLAŞMA MEKÂNI OLARAK TRABZON KENT MERKEZİ
TRABZON CITY CENTER AS A SOCIALIZATION PLACE OF THE YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: The city is a public space where young people learn social norms. In this sense, the city appears as the socialization place of the youth, which is a process of socialization itself. Urban space, which is embellished with symbolic meanings through interaction between its users, gives clues about how this particular youth is built. This study, which is derived from the PhD thesis, focuses on young people in Trabzon. The effects of socialization place on youth experience are measured by taking into consideration various variables such as social oppression, love of homeland, identity and groups of difference. According to the study, Trabzon offers, for young people, a nationalist, traditional and conservative subjectivity. In addition to this it is accepted that young people build their identity as a Muslim, Turkish and Trabzonlu and have an exclusionary attitude towards groups of difference. In the study, both qualitative and quantitative research techniques were used. The questionnaires were conducted with 395 and in-depth interviews with 38 participants. The data obtained from research field, were analyzed and interpreted within the framework of concepts of youth and place.

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