Journal Name:
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Çalışmaları Dergisi
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Abstract (Original Language):
The transformation of Turkey from a traditional to a secular state presents social psychology with a valuable case study on the topic of Cultural Change.
The dramatic turning point was reached in the Westernization process with the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey. A series of reforms was carried out hy Atatürk to establish a Western type pf state based on the principle that sovereignty belongs to the people. Secularism was the corner stone, and the reforms carried out by turn ranged from the area of religion to Civil Law to Education. The present paper analysed the reforms from a social psychological perspective in which reforms were seen as creating the social environment to induce changes in individuals' attitudes and behaviours to bring about permanent changes in the socio-cul-tural system in Turkey.
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