Yaşlılığı mekân üzerinden okumak: İstanbul'un Kadıköy ve Bağcılar ilçelerinde yaşlılığın mekânsal boyutu

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: İstanbul Ticaret University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, UYGULAMALI SOSYOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI, Turkey

Approval Date: 2022

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: BEYZA İSEN

Supervisor: DOĞAN NECMETTİN

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

Among the current issues that sociology has put on its agenda, the issue of old age has started to emerge as an important research problem. Today, the issue of "old age" has gained a different position within the framework of changing demographics in all over the world and Turkey. While social issues are being addressed for our country, youth and youth issues are taken to forefront. With the importance of our transition to a country with an aging population has been recognized in the last few years, changes and transformations due to this new formation have begun to be dictated. This study focuses on the relationship of the elderly with the space, by focusing on the issue of old age, keeping in the foreground that the individual cannot be thought independently of the place. Questions such as how the elderly living in the city are satisfied with the place, whether they feel like they belong to the place they live in, their reactions to spatial change, what opportunities the place provides for them, whether the space has an integrative or divisive attitude for them, constitute the main questions for this research. Within the scope of this study, the content of the research questions, elderly people's perceptions of space, opinions on their sense of belonging and their expectations are discussed in the perspective of Henri Lefebvre's approach to the concept of space. Within the framework of the research, interviews have been made with people aged 65 and over living in different habitus to read the spatial practices of the elderly people, the spatial relations of the elderly individuals have been analyzed and the expectations of the elderly regarding the space have been brought to the forefront. In this context, a study on spatial change, perception of space, and the evaluation of the relations and expectations of elderly individuals towards space is presented by considering two different districts in the province of Istanbul. In the course of the study, Kadıköy and Bağcılar districts have been selected and interviews have been conducted with a total of ten people, five people residing in Kadıköy and five people residing in Bağcılar, with a sample selection of individuals aged 65 and over. Within the scope of qualitative research methods, the findings have been analyzed with the content analysis method. With this research, it has been concluded that the elderly individuals, in the face of changes in the urban space as a result of social movements, also undergo mutual changes and affect the structure of the space. Key Words: Henri Lefebvre, Space, Perception of space, Old age