Abstract
A CASE STUDY ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF VILLAGES: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE BOOK “THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF BUYUKDERE VILLAGE”
Studies in which settlements are assessed according to certain economic and social indicators are considered as socio-economic studies in general. Although these studies are carried on a level of city, district, town, village or neighborhood, socio-economic studies conducted for villages attract more attention on academic level. The facts that these types of data on villages that are different from urban settlements regarding economic and social structure can generally be obtained from field studies and that there is a widespread absence in these types of data related to villages have redirected socio-economic studies more towards villages. It is a fact that economic and social policies have been put in place for the development of villages that remained relatively underdeveloped compared to cities after the proclamation of the republic in Turkey. It must be noted that significant growth and transformation has occurred in villages as a result of these policies. Many academics have drawn their attention to the reasons as to why villages remained underdeveloped economically and socially despite this development, transformation, and all the efforts; and have focused these types of studies on villages. These types of academic studies related to the socio-economic structure of villages were conducted in university departments such as sociology, economics, politics, public administration and agricultural economics. “Socio-economic structure of Büyükdere Village” is one of these studies conducted by Prof. Dr. Tayyar Ayyıldız, who is a faculty member of Atatürk University, Faculty of Agriculture, and Department of Agricultural Economics. The purpose of this article is to analyze the contents of the study named “Socio-economic structure of Büyükdere Village” that was published in 1975 by Atatürk University, and generally assess the possible contribution of the said publication on similar studies that have been or will be conducted.
Keywords
Village, socio-economic structures, Büyükdere village
