Yılmaz Özakpınar

Sociologist (b. 1934, Boyabat / Sinop). He attended primary and elementary school in Sinop and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy (1957) and from Cambridge University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Psychology (1960). He obtained his doctorate degree at İstanbul University, Chair of Experimental Psychology in 1964.

He conducted various studies at Köln University, Institute of Sociological Research between 1972-1974 and at Bern University, Department of Pedagogical Psychology in 1978 on a scholarship from Alexander von Humboldt, and at Oregon University, Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology between 1980-1981, on a Fullbright scholarship. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Education at Selçuk University between 1982-1988 then he returned to İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature.

WORKS:

Psikolojinin Temel Mefhumları (Basic Concepts in Psychology), Öğrenmede Dikkat Problemi (The Problem of Attention in Learning), Hafıza Yanılmalarının Doğuşu (Origin of Memory Lapses), Hafıza (Memory), Batılılaşma Meselesi ve Mümtaz Turhan (The Problem of Westernization and Mümtaz Turhan), Kültür ve Medeniyet Üzerine Denemeler (Essays on Culture and Civilization, 1998), İnsan İnanan Bir Varlık (Man, A Creature of Faith, 1999), İslâm Medeniyeti ve Türk Kültürü (Civilization in Islam and Turkish Culture, 2000), Kültür ve Medeniyet Anlayışları ve Bir Medeniyet Teorisi (Understanding Culture and Civilization and a Theory on Civilization, 2000), İnsan Düşüncesinin Boyutları (Dimensions of Human Thought, 2002), Psikolojinin Kavramsal Yapısı (Conceptual Structure of Psychology, 2000), Kültür Değişmeleri ve Batılılaşma Meselesi (Changes of Culture and the Problem of Westernization, 2003).