Writer (b. 1954, Baloğlu village / Orhaneli / Bursa). He completed his
primary and secondary education in Bursa and
graduate (1984) and postgraduate education (1989) at Ankara University.
After working as a teacher at Ankara Etik High School
for a short time, he worked as a researcher at Samsun
Ondokuz Mayıs
University, Faculty of Education and
at Ankara University,
Institute of Social Sciences.
He was appointed
to Ankara University, Faculty of Education
Sciences as an assistant professor in 1990. He became professor in 2002 while
he was an associate professor at the Department of Education Sociology. He
still works at this faculty. On the issues of Education Sociology including
family, education, social culture, alienation, social history, communication
and teenage and children’s culture he has done research, written studies,
reports and articles and presented papers at scientific meetings. He has taken
part in radio and television discussions, conferences and other similar
activities. His articles have been published in the reviews Çağdaş Eğitim Dergisi, Eğitim ve Bilim,
İslâmî Araştırmalar, Millî Eğitim, Millî Kültür,Toplum ve Bilim, Yedi İklim,
Düşünen Siyaset and Türk Yurdu,
and in the newspapers Zaman, Bursa 2000,
Bursa Hakimiyet, Yeniyüzyıl, Sağduyu, Radikal and Kent. Among the graduate and post-graduate courses that he gives
are General Sociology, Education Sociology, Turkish Family Sociology,
Children’s Culture, Episteme Sociology, Turkish Sociologists and Social
Sub-Culture Phenomenon. His PhD thesis was on Türk Kültür ve Eğitimine
Katkıları açısından M. Tahir Münif Paşa ve Ali Suavi Üzerinde Mukayeseli Bir
Çalışma. (A Comparative Work on M. Tahir Münif and Ali Suavi with Respect
to Their Contributions to Turkish Culture and Education)
WORKS
(Study-Research):
Tanzimat’ın İki Ucu: Münif
Paşa ve Ali Suavi (Two Points of the Tanzimat*
Reform: Münif Paşa and Ali Suavi, 1991), Sosyoloji-Ders
Notları (Sociology- Course Notes, 1993), Bir Alt Kültür Olarak Ankara Yüksel Caddesi Gençliği (Ankara Yüksel Street Youth As A
Subculture, 1994), Sosyoloji-Kavram ve Sorunlar (Sociology – Notions
and Issues, 1996), Çocuk Kültürü:
Tarihte, Dünyada ve Türkiye’de (Children’s Culture: In History, the World
and Turkey, 1995), Değişen Türkiye’de Bilim ve Kültür
(Science and Culture in Changing Turkey, 1997), İletişim ve Yabancılaşma - Yazılı Kültürümüzde İlkler (Communication
and Alienation – Firsts in our Written Culture, 1997), Sokaktaki Yabancı, İşyeri
İsimlerine Yansıyan Kültürel Eğilimler (Foreigner in the Street,
Cultural Inclinations on Naming Shops, 1999), Sivil Toplum, Ondan Bizde de
Var (Civic Society, We Had It Too, 2000), Osmanlı Ailesi, Sosyolojik Bir
Yaklaşım (Ottoman Family, A Sociologic Approach, 2001), Modern Toplumda Vatandaşlık, Demokrasi ve
İnsan Hakları, “İnsan Haklarının Kültürel Temelleri” (Citizenship,
Democracy and Human Rights in Modern Society “Cultural Foundations of Human
Rights”, 2001), Bizde Kadın, Ahmet Cevat’ın Aynı Adlı Eseri Üzerinde Bir Değerlendirme
(The Woman in Us, an evaluation on the work of Ahmet Cevat with the same title,
2003).
