Abstract:

Turkey comes forward as a country which has experienced different social processes.Weight of internal migration and urbanization facts is felt on the social processes in Turkey like being in many countries of the world. Internal migration and urbanization have an important role in the process of social change. These two factors has a decisive function on the changing,shaping and transformation of the social structure. These two elements have been seen intensely since the early days of the Republic. This change has also been demonstrated itself in the political party preferences and the elections. Aspect of the vote is as important as voting itself. Being investigated of political participation and individual-politics relations is also closely linked with the factors under lying social change. Party leader seems to have a limited significance in the choice of political parties. Again, it is understood that sympathizing ideologically to a party is an important criterion. Pluralism, transparency, democracy being functional on the participation base and civil society organizations are fields through which people Express themselves. Civil society developing on the basis of urbanization and civilization includes unity of urban culture and differences. Civil society organizations have an important role in the process of political participation, too. These and many factors like these bring about occurence of differences in the processes of political participation. In this study, the processes of social change have been explained by being started from the date of 1923. However, the effect of them on the political participation has been examined.

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