'THERE'S A VILLAGE FAR AWAY', SOCIO-CULTURAL RELATIONS AND CHANGE IN THE 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY: THE CASE OF BALIKESİR
'ORDA BİR KÖY VAR UZAKTA', 19. YÜZYIL OSMANLI KÖY TOPLUMUNDA SOSYO-KÜLTÜREL İLİŞKİLER VE DEĞİŞİM: BALIKESİR ÖRNEĞİ

Author : İsmail ARSLAN -- Bülent ÖZDEMİR
Number of pages : 21-32

Abstract

Last twenty-five thirty-year period, the researchers of the factors shaping of society, with an emphasis on the socio-economic relations, gave importance to examine. "Social change" means literally a new historiography began to be used as a magic word. This historiography, ingrained and accepted as a trend of ever questioning the accuracy of paradigms, judged in the light of new findings regarded necessary. This new trend, the wealth and the wealth of the Ottoman archives by researchers every day as a result of greater use of the original and more continuously supported the work of local history. In particular, ordinary people in society, and collective social forces shaping the role and importance of historical figures such as tax records, and statistics on more than the socio-economic studies were determined. Recently started to be pronounced "cultural history", the term created by the socio-economic studies to complete the table, sometimes only fetishism or numbers that make up the due diligence effort should be given a different emphasis on studies. Of social change, especially change in the study of factors affecting the change in economic relations between the village community at the cost of significant socio-cultural relations should not be underestimated. In this study, the scope of 19th-century rural society, the extent allowed by available resources, socio-cultural relations and change the main topics discussed. First, the Slowly Changing structures, such as the rural community were questioned in the presence of a noticeable change. This is our field research on the rural community were present during interrogation. The state-peasant relationship, the village community, tradition, changes in perception and bilateral relations were discussed.

Keywords

Ottoman Village Society, Change, Peasants, Balikesir Villages, Socio-Cultural Relations.

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