Consumption in the process of urbanization: Antalya sample of periodic markets

Consumption is an everlasting phenomena. By consuming the goods and services, people meet their fundamental physiological needs such as eating, drinking, housing and security. Only the changes and transformations occurring in the socio-economic environment have redesigned and transformed the concept of ?consumption? and added one more dimension to the concept. The commoditization of the social values, individuals? diverging from the rationality in their consumption habits and constant pervading of consumption culture have accelerated the transformation in the consumption concept. The increase in production parallel to the industrialization has led into increase in consumption as well. Beyond being an activity in order just to meet the fundamental physiological needs, consumption has also started to dominate the embodiment of the lives and the life styles of the people.In this study is intended to put forward the socio-economically changing form of the consumption in Turkey. On the whole, the study comprises of four chapters of conceptual, theoretical, historical and empirical studies and analysis.Key words: Urban, consumption, consumption culture, symbolic consumption, periodic markets.