Reading of Şerif Mardin and Mübeccel Kiray: Social Changes and Modernization Periods in Our Recent History

This study aims to discuss the intersecting and diverging points of the sociological analyses of Şerif Mardin and Mübeccel Kiray within the framework of the parameters of social change, the fundamental tensions between social groups and social Power focuses and the problems of the connectedness of social structure. In this discussion, the theoretical approaches and the original conceptual frameworks of sociologists are used to monitor and analyze the structural changes and transformations that Turkish society has undergone in the last two centuries with their sociological dimensions. The conceptual and theoretical framework used by the two social scientists in analyzing the periods of modernization and modernization is widely differentiated. Accordingly, Şerif Mardin attributes our modernization process as a macro variable to the modenization in the political institution and bureaucracy and the radical transformation of this modernization in the field of symbols, symbols and values of society; Mübeccel Kıray makes a reference to the dynamics in production processes and the economy variable. Thus, the structural determinants of our modernization process are differentiated and analyzed with references to different contexts. In terms of contribution to literature, the study shows how Turkish modernization, which is often analyzed solely by its historical content and stages, can be analyzed both in its historical and sociological dimensions.