Author/Authors :
ŞENTÜRK, Ünal İnönü Üniversitesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Kampus - Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Turkey
Abstract :
Every person born learns the ways of behaving and manners that the culture and the society in which s/he is born approve, with the process of socialization. A person shapes his/her “character” by putting the appropriate behaviors and manners taught by his/her family, environment and school into practice. The man as a social being thinks that it is no use living and behaving in a way the society and the culture determine. However, the person’s expectations of the cultural and social structure do not always comply with each other. As a matter of fact, the present day man learning to have principles, to obey the rules, to be fair, to keep promises, and to build permanent relationships are not able to find chances to realize owing to changing economic and social conditions. For this reason, there comes a distinction between the situations the person has learned and those that s/he has met, which reveals the situation that R. Sennet describes as “character corrosion”. This study, which is related to such an inclination that is being observed more nowadays, aims to explain the economic and social conditions revealing the situation that Sennet described as “character corrosion”. The study tries to make a connection between the process of the new economic system in the information society and the consequences the post-modern process reveals.
