Journal Article

TEKSTÝL ÝÞÇÝLERÝNÝN KÝMLÝK AÝDÝYETL ERÝ ÜZERÝNE SOSYOLOJÝK BÝR ÝNCELEME 1/A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALY SIS ON TEXTILE WORKERS IDENT ITY BELONGINS

Enneli, Pinar, Cebecioglu, Gülçin

2016

Overview

There are two main approaches to the class and stratification issues. One view argues that class has died and people face up with dissidence based on their religious and ethnic identities rather than their class identities. In relation to this, class has undergone an important transformation. Political studies especially deduce that political and social identities cannot be understood via class-based traditional identities represented by right and left wings. According to the second view, class identity continues its existence. Here it is also claimed that class consciousness continues its existence and even if it exists ontologically it is damaged as for different reasons. This paper will analyze these two views in the case of textile workers in Istanbul. The main argument of the paper is that although ethnic and religious identity appropriations are important for textile workers, class belongings has not died; rather, there is complicated, interwoven and multifaceted relation between ethnic, religious and class identities. Mixed method was used in this research to reach valid and reliable data. In the first stage, a questionnaire was conducted to 508 textile workers working in garment industry in Istanbul of whom 218 are women and 290 are men, and age between 15- 58 at five months' interval between September 2013 and January 2014 and 15 volunteers among the participants were interviewed. In the second stage, and 5 focus group studies consisting of 5 people were conducted. By doing this, it is aimed to get more in-depth understanding of the data obtained from the questionnaire and interviews. At the end, it is concluded that while identity based dissidences are observed over ethnic and religious belongings, economy based class consciousness continues its existence.

• Publisher: Uludag University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
• Subject: Appropriations / Class consciousness / Class identity / Clothing industry / Consciousness / Cultural identity / Ethnic identity / Ethnicity / Questionnaires / Religion / Religious identity / Social identity / Stratification / Studies / Textile industry / Textiles / Transformation / Volunteers / Workers