Everyday life practices of newly started lawyers

This master thesis is an everyday life study. In this thesis, the everyday life practices of newly started lawyers were examined. The everyday life of lawyers with less than ten years of experience were analyzed in terms of class, culture and gender contexts. With this; an answer was sought to the question of what are the cultural characteristics of the Ankara Bar Association and the Eskişehir Bar Association, which are the participants of this study are members of its. In this study, it was first assumed that the legal profession and newly started lawyers are a cultural class and that bar associations are nothing more than a professional organization for lawyers. The second assumption of the study is that there is an implicit hierarchy between newly started lawyers and the subjects who are an interaction between newly started lawyers in everyday life. Another assumption of the study is that dominant gender roles and representations are in circulation within the legal profession. The last assumption of the study is that newly started lawyers have similar interpretations and future perspectives. The above-mentioned assumptions have been tried to be justified through the theoretical discussions and qualitative research findings in the study. The theoretical discussion includes academic approaches to assumptions and conceptual tools which related to assumptions. The qualitative research includes the datas obtained from participant observation in a law office in Eskişehir and in-depth interviews with sixteen newly started lawyers. Keywords Everyday Life, Lawyer, Profession, Culture, Cultural Class, Gender.