Social Change İn Traditional Neighborhood Culture İn Turkey From The Ottoman Empire To The Present

Abstract

The word neighborhood, which derives from the same root as the Arabic word "mahall" and means a place to stay, has been passed on to the Turks as an idiom and organization from the Arabs. Although there is no universally accepted definition, neighborhood can be defined as the smallest settlement area of ​​a city or town that is separated by certain boundaries and has the opportunity to live on its own. The subject of this study is the cultural examination of the changes in meaning and function that traditional neighborhood culture, an urban and social organization specific to Turkey, has undergone in certain periods from the Ottoman period, when it was formed, to the present day. Traditional neighborhoods are administrative and physical units as well as an area that has social and cultural aspects, first of all, and contains human values ​​and various social relations. What has kept the neighborhood alive for centuries has essentially been the existence of a tradition. In a general analysis, it can be said that the neighborhood is the meaning, rituals and space produced by a community that is organized under a political superstructure based on a certain worldview and has common values ​​within. In this study, the document and content analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. As a result of this study, it was concluded that traditional neighborhoods, which have undergone rapid change with the urbanization process, have undergone many changes and are in danger of losing their internal cultural identities, but cultural spread continues.