Özet:

The study aims to explain the relationship between the formation and transformation processes of women belonging to the working class, the desire to be a driver, within the framework of the concept of status consumption.  The study has been aimed at finding out how women belonging to the working class understood to have a driver’s license and from what points of view it was important. The study used the data obtained from the semi-configured interview technique with 42 women in the working class and 5 managers/learners who participate in the driver's course between 30 and 55 years of age living in Yenikent (Ankara/Sincan). The study concluded that the driver’s license was of great symbolic value in terms of the ability of women of the working class to show their cognitive and psycho-motor skills to people around them. However, it was concluded that women of the working class were trying to show the status of "educated, successful and/or wealthy women" that they did not actually have, and the consumption of the driving license they recognized as one of the symbols of the status, and the people around them. Women of the working class have stated that they have raised their self-esteem and received social approval through the consumption of this status.