On Family in Turkey with F. Beğlü Dikeçligil
F. Beğlü Dikeçligil, born in 1949, completed her undergraduate studies at Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology in 1970 and worked as an assistant at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. In 1979, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on "The Relationship between Lifestyle and Inco...
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Istanbul University Press
2023-06-01
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| Series: | İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/D1720BEDE20A41839A4907354841E3D1 |
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| Summary: | F. Beğlü Dikeçligil, born in 1949, completed her undergraduate studies at Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology in 1970 and worked as an assistant at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. In 1979, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on "The Relationship between Lifestyle and Income Level" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Amiran Kurtkan Bilgiseven at the same institute. After her post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1980, she worked at Hacettepe University, Department of Sociology as Assistant Professor between 1982-1985, Associate Professor between 1985-1995 and Professor between 1995-2004. Dikeçligil worked as the founding head of the research department at the Family Research Institute of the Prime Ministry between 1990-1993. During these years, together with Ahmet Çiğdem, she compiled Family Writings 1- Basic Concepts, Structure and Historical Process, Family Writings 2- Cultural Values and Social Change, Family Writings 3- Individual, Personality and Society, Family Writings 4- Marriage Institution and Relationships, Family Writings 5- Population and Family Planning. She was the founding chair of the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Letters of Erciyes University between 2005 and 2014 and the director of the Women’s Studies Application and Research Center of Erciyes University between 2009 and 2014. Dikeçligil deals with the issues of family, culture, civilisation and modernisation in the context of historical-cultural process and social science paradigm differences and attaches importance to the analytical values of concepts. She develops the concept of “nuclear family network” to explain the family structure in Turkey; she makes operational definitions of the concepts of “healthy family” and “strong family” that enable empirical analysis. In 2015, she conducted an ethnographic research on the nuclear family network among Turkish immigrants in Stockholm and analysed the maintenance and reproduction of solidarity relations in the Turkish family. Through this concept, she analyzes the maintenance and reproduction of solidarity relations in the Turkish family. Today, the Family Writings series is an important source for those who want to understand and study the family in Turkey. Theconcept of the "nuclear family network" is valuable because it allows us to analyze the family both as an institution and as a network of interaction, thus presenting a holistic picture of it. This interview, which begins by discussing the Turkish family structure and intra-family relations through the concept of "nuclear family network", touches upon many issues regarding the change, transformation and future of the family in Turkey. |
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| ISSN: | 2667-6931 |